![]() ![]() The enemy however, had also effected landing, and continued heavy air attacks on the island and British forces. On the 27th, Hero in company with HMS Decoy landed troops on Castellorizo Island. In January 1941 Hero was employed in convoy escort duties from Gibraltar to Malta. In November, Hero acted as covering force to a convoy of five supply ships which were proceeding to Malta. The British destroyers rescued 525 crew members from the Colleoni including her Commanding Officer Captain Novaro, who later died from injuries sustained. Sydney received a hit from the other Italian cruiser, and whilst turning away, the Italian managed to escape. On the 19th, in company with the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and the destroyers HMS Hasty, HMS Havock, HMS Hyperion and HMS Ilex, while proceeding from Tripoli to Leros, they intercepted the Italian light cruisers Giovanni Delle Bande Nere and the Bartolomeo Colleoni, which received many hits in the engagement, resulting in her becoming incapable of manoeuvring, and was sunk after being torpedoed by the destroyers. By July Hero was in the Mediterranean as a member of the 2nd DD Flotilla which was under the control of Admiral Cunningham, the flotilla was tasked to cover two convoys between Malta and Alexandria. ![]() On the 24th, she was tasked in the screening of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Corks force against U-boats in Vestfjord and Ofotfjord Narvik. In April 1940 HMS Hero was covering four minelaying destroyers tasked to lay a barrage near Bodo, Norway. Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.): Parsons ![]()
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