The auxiliary ship Olterra was a 5,000 ton Italian tanker scuttled by her own crew at Algeciras in the Bay of Gibraltar on 10 June 1940, after the entry...

remaining torpedo returned to the Olterra without its rear rider. May 8, 1943: Three Italian human torpedoes left the Olterra to attack Gibraltar in bad weather...

failure. 8 December 1942. An attack by three manned torpedoes from the Olterra against British naval targets was thwarted in Gibraltar. Three divers were...

torpedoes. This Italian unit was based on the interned Italian ship SS Olterra in the nearby Spanish harbour of Algeciras. A number of attacks were also...

ship Olterra was scuttled by her own crew to prevent her capture by British forces from Gibraltar. The SIS soon repurposed the interior of the Olterra as...

vessels lost to the combined action of surface warships and airpower. Olterra was an Italian auxiliary vessel used as a stationary mothership for manned...

following a man with an Italian tattoo to the interned Italian ship the Olterra, he discovers that the ship's hold is being used as a workshop and base...

July 1942 Italian frogmen set up in a secret base in the Italian tanker Olterra, which was interned in Algeciras, in order to attack shipping in Gibraltar...

Vigorous ¹ Pedestal ¹ Agreement Torch Stoneage ¹ Toulon Portcullis ¹ Skerki² Olterra¹ Algiers¹ 1943 Zuwarah Cigno ² Campobasso ² Pantelleria Sicily Gela Scylla ²...

Vigorous ¹ Pedestal ¹ Agreement Torch Stoneage ¹ Toulon Portcullis ¹ Skerki² Olterra¹ Algiers¹ 1943 Zuwarah Cigno ² Campobasso ² Pantelleria Sicily Gela Scylla ²...