British Forces

Aegean Sea: Beaufighter in action

Imperial War Museum

Low-level oblique aerial photograph taken during an attack on an enemy convoy in the Aegean Sea, which was making for Crete. RAF’s Bristol Beaufighters attack one of the German destroyers escorting the 5,300-ton cargo vessel Livenza which was sunk during the attack, end 1943. The Livenza was and old Austro-Hungarian cargo-ship built by Trieste’s Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino on 1916 with the name Lisa and renamed Livenza when, on 1922, was took over by Società Anonima Italiana Di Navigazione based at Genoa. After the Italian armistice, was commandeered by German forces for sea transport on Aegean. Victor Sierra