(Operation MC 8 was an operation to transport 1441 troops and stores, including seventeen Bren carriers and other vehicles, sixty motor cycles, a large quantity of Italian and other guns and ammunition to Malta in Force B, comprising the light cruisers ORION, GLOUCESTER and AJAX and destroyers NUBIAN, MOHAWK and DIAMOND. Force B departed Alexandria at 1730/19/2/41 and arrived at Malta at 0630/21st