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On 14 November 1941, the SS Empire Pelican was en route from Barry, Wales, to Malta in the Mediterranean when she was torpedoed by a Regia Aeronautica aircraft 10 miles (16 km) south-west of the island of La Galita in northern Tunisia. The attack caused the death of 45 crew members. The 11 survivors were taken prisoner of war.
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Commemorated on:
Page 165 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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