moin, Thorsten
thank you

greetings, Urs

hi,

according to the Chronik des Seekriegs, there was a second sortie of EAGLE and escorts on June, 9, to fly off Spitfires to Malta, the first (June, 3) w/o Partridge, the second (June, 9) with Partridge

Was that sortie still part of STYLE or did it have an own code name ?

greetings, Urs

hi,

apparently, no, see http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170830.htm

greetings, Urs

hello, Siri,

thanky you and I wish you, the crew and all members continuous health and all the best !

hi, Jordi,

according to https://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/chronik.htm, it was CA York

greetings, Urs

hi, Providentia (139 GRT/?) was bombed and sunk by German Ju-87 planes 14/7/40 at 49-55N 09-12W. No survivors. I voice my doubts whether a ship in the open sea south of Ireland and approximately 250 nm distant from the next German (near Brest) airfield was sunk by Ju 87 ... possibly Ju 88 ? greeting...

hi,

From 5th to 9th March. the Russian Black Sea Fleet conducted a full scale raid with all available ships (battleships, cruisers, destroyers) against the Ottoman Black sea coast, especially Zonguldak.

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hi, British destroyer Penylan was torpedoed and sunk by S.115 in the English Channel 3/12/42 while escorting convoy PW-257. The convoy was composed by 7 merchants escorted by 2 escort destroyers, 5 trawlers and 3 ML motor launches. I'm trying to identify those ships: Merchants: Isac (2385 GRT/26), G...

hi,

Brian Corijn wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 19, 2020 12:45 pm

Exmoor

Thanks to this piece of information, I - being an e-boat specialist - realized for the first time that there were two of them in WW II, the first being sunk on Feb 25, 1941, by the German S 30

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hi,

the FFS names with the spelling errors RENOUCULE for RENONCULE and ROSELEYS for ROSELYS.

greetings, Urs

hi,

Jordi Comas wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 05, 2020 1:54 pm

On 15 May 1942 was sunk by German bombers in the Arctic.

As far as I remember, she was severely damaged by Ju 88`s on May, 14, and scuttled by MATCHLESS the next day

greetings, Urs

hi, Some sources also mention Foresight and Keppel...........is this right? according to http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4007-20JUL01.htm, those two departed from Gibraltar - after the action off Calabria - to escort the tow with the torpedoed destroyer ESCORT back to Gibraltar (but ESCORT sank)...

DONNA NOOK, hired trawler, .... Served in WW2 . Lost in action with German E-boats off Shipwash on 25 September 1943, she sank after colliding with HMT "Stella Rigel" while manoeuvring to rescue survivors of HMT "Franc Tireur", which had been torpedoed "S 96" (lost, too, after collision with "ML 14...

hi, Platon

Platon Alexiades wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:41 pm

What is the 0,5%?

Good question
AFAIR, we had a two minor disagreement which 3rd flottilla boats laid mines where and when off Malta in April, 1942, and off North Africa in March to May, 1943

greetings, Urs

hi, Platon,

Platon Alexiades wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:23 pm

I wonder what is your view on this story?

I agree with you (as in 99,5 % of all cases )

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