Hello,
I’m looking for infos concerning the naval losses of Kriegsmarine during the landings at Cefalonia and Corfu (Ionic islands) in september 1943, after the Italian Armistice.
As far as I know, the following german naval losses occurred at Cefalonia, due to coastal batteries:
- MFP F495 sunk and F494 damaged on 13/09/1943
- MFP F497 damaged on 17/09/1943
The Italian coastal artillery was responsible also of the following losses, which I was not able to identify in the literature (any info about them ?); in particular:
- sinking of an unspecified craft, carrying 30 Gebirgsjaeger of I/99 GJR (1. GJDivision), at Corfu, during a failed landing attempt, on 13/09/1943
- sinking of an unspecified craft (maybe a SF or MFP ?) with the loss of almost 200 soldiers of CMIX/966. FestungRegiment (Cefalonia, 17/09/1943).
Germans employed, for the second and successful landing attempt in Corfu, 1 U-jaeger, 2 minesweepers and 4 landing craft (MFP, maybe): of these units, one was sunk and three others damaged by air attacks in the harbour of Igumenizza (Albanian coast) after the landing was completed: any infos about them ?
The website [www.schiffswrackliste.de] gives the MFP F331 (15. LandungsFlottille) sunk at Corfù on 26/9/1943 by airplanes, of unspecified nationality : this should be one of the craft attacked by italian airplanes which were very active on the islands, lacking allied air support ?
I would be grateful if someone could clarify the situation.

Thanks in advance and a Happy new Year !!!

Fabrizio

PS
Source: “La divisione "Acqui" a Cefalonia. Settembre 1943”, Mursia, Milano, 1993