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Ss OhioThe SS ''Ohio'' was an oil tanker. When she was built for the Texas Oil Company (now Texaco), she was the largest oil tanker in the World. She was launched on April 20, 1940 at Sun Shipbuilding Yard in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. SS Ohio was capable of doing over 16 knots at sea. Ohio was the most important survivor of Operation Pedestal, a convoy sent to Malta in August 1942 during the Second World War. During the convoy's journey she was torpedoed by Italian submarine Axum and hit several times by bombs, and by a Junkers Ju 87 dive-bomber which crashed onto her deck. With a wrecked engine room and nearly broken in half, she was abandoned and reboarded twice but was eventually towed into Grand Harbour whilst sandwiched between two destroyers to deliver most of her original cargo of 12,000 tons of diesel and kerosene to the beleagured island. Her captain, Dudley William Mason, was subsequently awarded the George Cross.If the petroleum cargo had not reached the destination, Malta had to surrender. Ohio Ohio
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