HMS "Latona" on passage - Tobruk

HMS "Latona" was employed during the siege of Tobruk on the transport of men and stores from Alexandria to Tobruk (known as the "Spud Run"). The stores carried on this particular trip were mainly winter clothing, packed in bales and stowed along the upper deck and in mine storage. Lashed to the upper deck are gangways and chutes to facilitate unloading at Tobruk. One of the destroyers in the convoy, HMAS "Nizam", is seen crossing "Latona's" bows. Men in battledress and life belts sleep and read, for they will work during the night. HMS "Latona" was bombed and subsequently sunk on a similar trip a week after this sketch was made, Mediterranean Sea.