[Lagarto]

Thank you very much. Colgan wasn't there in person, so he might have heard a bit over-enthusiastic version of the "carrier story". Does the book mention the name of the ship? Was it Aquila?
This is what a friend of mine, an expert on Navy operations, wrote to me on the subject:
Aquila certainly didnt "roll upside down", so it couldn't be her.
I've seen photos of her after she was demolished and she still looks quite
ok. She was just holed by demolition charges and settled on the harbor, so
the germans couldnt use her as a blockship.