It is March, 1942, and the US is reeling from the Japanese surprise attack on her surface fleet at Pearl Harbor three months before. A lone, Clemson-class destroyer, the USS Edsall, crosses the Indian Ocean headed for Tjilatjap, the only deep-water port on the island of Java. The Edsall is far from cutting edge. Launched
HMS Trooper was born into the heart of conflict. Laid down in 1940 and launched in 1942, she was thrown into the heart of the Second World War and the Battle for the Mediterranean. Her career was a short lived but eventful. In little over a year she sank an enemy submarine, the Italian Pietro