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1.
Surcouf, Minerve, Junon, Ondine, Orion and Creole.
2. Ml604 was sunk by two mines off Penmarch on 23rd September.
3. Originally building for Turkey in Germany.
4. Which she was quite entitled to do as they had scuttled the
ship.
5. On 3rd September the invasion was put back to 21st September.
6. The rotating tube was a triple but two of its tubes were 400mm
(15.4”) for which here were no replacement torpedoes in the
United Kingdom.
7. Renamed Sokol.
8. Indeed it is not absolutely certain even now. The Germans claim
she was sunk off southwest Norway by UJ177 and UJ1104 on 8th November.
9. The total Invasion shipping assembled for operation ‘Seelowe’
was 155 merchant ships totalling some 170,000 tons, 1277 barges
and lighters, 471 tugs and 1161 motor boats, all in ports between
Antwerp and Le Havre.
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10. Not substantiated
by post war research.
11. She intended to fire four but one tube misfired.
12. Possibly run down by a ship she hadn’t seen.
13. Either from another U-boat as Tuna
thought, or one of her own torpedoes with a gyro failure.
14. One tube misfired.
15. One was avoided by the target altering away, one tube misfired
and went off later and one, fired in control, missed as well as
the others that ran correctly.
16. Of the Polish submarines, one had been sunk and the other
was about to be placed in reserve.
17. Some ratings had also for health, age or other reasons, returned
to general service.
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