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1.
Matrozos was the ex Italian Perla and Pipinos was the ex British
U-class P71.
2. Sibyl
found it practically impossible to be sure of a ship’s identity
without surfacing and stopping her. She had already done this
twice.
3. Out of the original six, TA16 had been sunk by air attack in
June as already related and TA14 and TA17 had been severely damaged
by Royal Marines using folbots and limpet mines in Leros also
in June. They had been taken there in ML360 and withdrew successfully
without
casualties.
4. Unswerving
was taken to task by the Captain (S) One for not at once reporting
the presence of U-boats in this area. Surprisingly this is the
first mention of U-boats by our submarines in the Aegean during
1944, although there had been a flotilla of them stationed
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at Salamis
for some time. On 19th September, the destroyers escorting Rear
Admiral Troubridge’s striking force in the Andikithira Channel
sank U407 after a long hunt. On 24th September, US Air Force bombers
sank U565 and U596 in Salamis. The U-boat base at Salamis was
closed on 28th September.
5. The object was not a mine but a spherical float and chain with
a wire mooring.
6. Curie actually made two messages, the second of which was received
by Unswerving.
7. The fourth torpedo, which she intended to fire, was defective.
8. A Senior Officer (Submarines) remained at Malta to look after
submarine interests there, mainly submarines on passage to and
from the Far East.
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