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1.
L23,
L26, H43,
H44,
H49 and H50.
2. With Commander GWG Simpson RN as Commander (S).
3. Particular anxiety was felt for the airfield at Banak, which
was the only one suitable for bombers in North Norway. We hoped
to use it to, among other things, mine the approaches to Lulea
to stop the summer ore traffic. The Germans had a plan to use
their fast trans-
Atlantic liners Bremen and Europa to send a force to this area.
There was also suspicion that the Russians might help the Germans
to attack using their merchant ships interned in Murmansk, or
indeed that they might try to seize Northern Norway for themselves
as they had seized Eastern Poland in 1939.
4. Although a collision with Wilk cannot be ruled out or indeed
a combination of both.
5. Not to be confused with Kristiansand in the Skagerrak.
6. Porpoise
had difficulty in getting a report through of her
minelaying by wireless and her position may have been compromised
with the enemy using direction-finding stations.
7. Trident
in Fro Havet
Triton
off Kya Light
Sunfish
off the Dutch coast
Severn
off Utsira
Truant
approaching Trondheim area
Tribune
at Skudenes
Salmon
at Lister
Snapper
bound for Jaederens
8. H28,
H31, H34, H44 and H49.
9. Ursula,
Spearfish,
Swordfish
and Sturgeon
from Blyth also took part in these patrols.
10. Some of the torpedo tubes in the other French submarines were
small ones of 400 mm (15.7') diameter and there were no torpedoes
of this size available in the United Kingdom. Rubis, Junon and
Minerve also had Vickers-Normand diesel engines that it was possible
to maintain in British shipyards.
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11.
Here they were available to provide spare periscopes, batteries
and other equipment of French manufacture to keep the operational
submarines in service.
12. They had been manufactured for Torbay,
Talisman
and Tetrarch,
which originally were to have been minelayers with minelaying
tubes through their saddle tanks.
13. Rubis was recalled to France before this sortie but was allowed
to make it at the request of the Admiralty. The French wished
the operation to be broken off if an armistice was signed. The
Armistice was signed before the mines were laid on 22nd June.
This was due to
‘communication difficulties’,
14. The Type 138, which was an asdic oscillator mounted on the
casing with hand training, a ‘dustbin’ dome and a receiver.
It could not transmit and could only be used submerged but gave
these submarines as
good a set when used as a hydrophone as any modern submarine.
15. I think in fact this was the torpedo boat Luchs.
16. Protosorb spread in trays absorbs carbon dioxide and was now
being issued to submarines. Sealion
carried an oxygen cylinder too.
17. Her track went right through the position of a newly laid
field but recent research shows that she probably did so just
before it was laid. However she passed close to another field
and a navigational error could have taken her through it.
18. Trondheim. In mid August there were over eight hours of darkness
in the Skagerrak and seven hours off
19. Including the second sortie by Thor.
20. Including Samland.
21. He was thought at the time to have sunk a U-boat, a claim
that has not been substantiated from enemy records.
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