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1.
Known as operation HATS.
2. The large ships also used paravanes, which were effective in
protecting them against moored mines.
3. Actually on its way to Dakar.
4. Four destroyers laid 112 mines each in two fields about twenty
miles northeast and south east of Valetta.
5. The sixth tube misfired.
6. Two British battleships had had to be left at Alexandria to
watch the French Fleet at the time of Dakar.
7. Rohwer and Hammeichen credit Regent
with sinking a ship of 188 tons at this time.
8. Nine out of twelve aircraft ran out of fuel and were lost.
9. Not listed as sunk in British records but Rohwer and Hammeichen
say she was sunk.
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10.
This was the Greek Proteus
and she must not be confused with the British submarine of the
same name.
11. Parthian,
Rorqual,
Regent,
Rover,
Truant,
Tetrarch,
Upright
and Unique.
12. Surface ships sank ten ships of 18,874 tons. Submarines sank
ten ships of 44,544 tons. Aircraft sank fifteen ships of 36,039
tons. Mines sank sixteen ships of 33,519 tons. Other causes sank
twenty-three ships of 33,064 tons.
13. 12 Swordfish torpedo planes (FAA). 18 Hurricane fighters,
18 Wellington bombers, 4 Sunderland flying boats, and 4 Maryland
reconnaissance planes.
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