Interior ( Starboard Side hole)

Starboard Side (Mast?)

Interior hatch (Port Side)

Rear Port Side as Wreck turns into debris field.

Forward Winch Gear.

Some sort of Telephony equipment?

Originally thought to be a depth charge.

View off the Starboard Deck plate to the sea floor.

These are the sort of images tourists don't see.
I would like to thank Darren for sending them to me.

Gillian Collins e-mailed me with this account from her father.

He joined Maori as a seaman in Oct 1940 aged almost 17. She was one of twelve vessels (I think that he said they were all Destroyers, but don't quote me) named after Tribal Warriors. He served with the Atlantic Convoys out of Liverpool & Londonderry.

They were escorting troops (on Queen Mary & Queen Elizabeth) out of the Clyde to the Middle East when diverted to deal with the Bismark. After the sinking, the Maori picked up 26 of her crew. They would have taken more, but they were under fire from the U-boats.

Afterwards they escorted convoys out of Malta to Alexandria (There were a lot of Italian ships in the harbour as they had surrendered).
The Queen Elizabeth and The Valliant were sunk in Alexandria Harbour at Christmas time 1941, they had had mines attached to the hulls. These sinkings caused a lot of inconvenience (of course).

A new Captain (name forgotten) was about to take command of The Maori on the day that it was sunk, he had arrived the day before and his effects were put onto the ship, although he spent the night ashore.

On the Thursday evening, Wyndham went to bed at 21.00.Someone called him to tell him that he had received mail, he asked for it to be left on the mess shelf (as he intended reading it the next day). He was still asleep in his hammock when the ship was hit.
A shout went up to abandon ship. He came from down below, up several ladders to the deck where many of the crew were already in the water. Some of the crew were closing hatches. He jumped in and swam to shore. They spent the night at the onshore Naval Depot (HMS ST Angelo).

A couple of days later he dived down a to try to recover some effects as he had left the ship in only underpants. He was unable to recover anything including the letter from his mother and his Bosun's pipe (he thinks that it is probably still there). He said that he doubted that this hatch has ever been opened.

He stayed in Malta until joining the HMS Legion at 14.00. He was aboard for 1.50mins before being sunk again. Luckily he made it back to the UK on the Aurora where he stayed for 8 months before being sent to Plymouth for electronics and Torpedo training.

He is surprised that the death toll has been given as only one, as the grape-vine at the time said that all 6 men who slept in the room alongside the engine room were lost.

He later returned many times throughout WWII and was involved in The Malta Campaign for which he recently received another medal (@1996).
I'm sure that there were many other things which he could have told
me had I asked the right questions. If anyone wants me to ask him any specific questions relating to his time in Malta, then please ask me.