OAR@UM Collection: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103418 2026-04-04T18:01:27Z 2026-04-04T18:01:27Z Fort Verdala's connection with Pakistan's navy https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/139384 2025-10-01T09:59:09Z 2012-12-09T00:00:00Z Title: Fort Verdala's connection with Pakistan's navy Abstract: The article refers to a connection which exists between Malta, the Royal Pakistan Navy and HMS Euroclydon (Fort Verdala). Some of the graffiti that we find at Fort Verdala belong to members of the Royal Pakistan Navy 2012-12-09T00:00:00Z Malta at war https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103962 2022-11-24T07:44:27Z Title: Malta at war Abstract: A British colony from 1814 to 1964, Malta had been the 'Nurse of the Mediterranean' during the First World War for 135,000 Commonwealth sick and wounded who were brought to her many hospitals and convalescent depots from the campaigns in Gallipoli and Salonika. Fortified and garrisoned during the Second World War, Malta was of vital strategic importance to the Allies, both as the only British-held harbour between Gibraltar and Alexandria and, perhaps more crucially, as a base for air and submarine operations against Axis convoys supplying North Africa.