From "Red Duster, White Ensign" by Ian Cameron: ' The fate of the Breconshire, Talabot and Pampas was...a needless tragedy. All three vessels had survived a thousand-mile voyage in which they had been attacked by the Italian fleet and several hundred bombers. They had reached harbour with their cargoes intact and been sunk under the very noses of the islanders who needed so desperately the supplies in their holds'. (The Breconshire in particular had had a most harrowing ordeal en route and then been almost wrecked off Malta but survived against all odds only to be sunk in M'xlokk bay with her cargo of fuel).

So who does he blame?

You'll have to read it - but I'm sure you already have. We could get into a fruitless argument here.