The New Zealandpassenger liner/troop ship HMT Awatea was sunk after delivering No. 6 Commando for the Operation Torch landing in North Africa. The Awatea was requisitioned as a troop ship by the Royal Navy in 1939 and was one of two ships that delivered the ill-fated Canadian
C Force to Hong Kong.
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