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1.
The Admiralty in due course supported him and issued an Admiralty
Fleet Order prohibiting it.
2. Clio claimed to have sunk her, and this was thought to be Narval
for many years.
3. Carborundum was found in the lubricating oil.
4. As recommended as a counter measure at the time.
5. The parachutists were in fact captured before they reached
the coast.
5a. Flashless propellant had not yet reached the Mediterranean.
6 Two of which were refitting in Malta.
6a. Ursula
and Utmost
were returning to Malta from patrol off the Tunisian coast. Upright
and Unique
had just left Malta to relieve them. Triumph
was off the Dodecanese, Olympus
in the western Mediterranean and Regent
in the Adriatic.
7. In Yugoslavia there had been an anti German coup d’etat.
8. Upright,
Unique,
Upholder,
Ursula,
Unique
again, Ursula
again, Usk,
Upholder
again, Upright
again.
9. This officer had made his way from northern France where he
had been cut off and was unable to reach Dunkirk in time to be
evacuated.
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10.
Cesare and Doria.
11. The sinking of Usk
was, however, also claimed by the Italian destroyers Pigafetta
and Zeno of a force covering convoys.
12. Undaunted
was also claimed by the Italian torpedo boat Pleide in a counter
attack after a torpedo attack on a ship bound for Benghazi.
13. The original stock of mines at Malta for the Mediterranean
Station had now largely been expended and a new stock had arrived
from Singapore.
14. German accounts say that this field sank two ships carrying
supplies for the Luftwaffe.
15. Motor Anti-submarine Boats.
16. Urge
had already sunk the blockade-runner Franca Martelli in the Bay
of Biscay on her way out.
17. Some pressure hull rivets were loosened and she dived involuntarily
to 278 feet.
18. Usk
and Undaunted.
19. Torbay,
Taku,
Unbeaten,
Urge,
Union
and Cachalot.
20. Figures are actually for February to June 1941.
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