Wendell Phillips was part of convoy KMS 37, but Sainte Maxime was not:

http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/kms/index.h ... 7!~kmsmain

According to naval-history.net Ceres left Colombo with unknown destination on June 9th, which means that she could not be in Aden on June 10th.
Only in August she joined that Force for evacuation operations in Somalia.

http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-400 ... minion.htm

http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4007-20JUL01.htm gives only three destroyers.

07.07.1940
[...]
Force D, which later departed Malta with the convoy, was destroyers DIAMOND, JERVIS, and VENDETTA.

No, it works only for the new forum.
I had some time so I searched the old forum manually.

Hello Platon!

Take a look here:
http://warsailors.com/forum/archive/for ... #msg-61683

Another on was here, but a single one:
http://warsailors.com/forum/archive/for ... #msg-61821

RIP

According to uboat.net the Arsia that was damaged (total loss) by HMS Unique was a cargo ship, not a tanker: https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3534.html (see 03.06.1941) Wiki says that Papanikolis on her patrol from 31. August to 15. September 1942 unsuccessfully attacked an 8000t oil carrier w...

Good luck that everythings goes well.

Gneisenau:
2 dead, 3 heavily and 9 lightly wounded.

Scharnhorst:
Nothing about casualties mentioned in her war diary.

War diary Marinegruppenkommando West: 16 KIA and 16 WIA (the latter does not correspond with the action report which is an addenum to the war diary and gives 17 WIA): - T 14 had 1 KIA (Flottilla Commander), 8 WIA - T 19 had 3 KIA, 3 WIA - T 10 had 9 KIA, 3 MIA and 6 WIA - T 4 had no casualties This ...

https://www.historisches-marinearchiv.d ... _value=599
(english version has no ship history so far)

South of the island Falkonera.

It is interesting that at least at NARA the only available war diary from the battle at Barents Sea is the one of the machinery. It does say nothing about KIA and WIA except that the Ardexin for fire extinguishig caused some losses. All other information about the battle com from reports like the on...

No casualties.

Hello Jordi! Concerning Z 28 : There is a three page action report from this bomb attack which states that Z 28 was very, very lucky to survive it. Two bombs of about 500 kg exploded on the pier 15 m next to the ship and one pierced the pier and went into the mud next to the destroyer without explod...

Also from me a warm welcome back.

Good luck for handling the new software.

If you come across technical problems that you can't handle yourself please feel free to ask. As I run a naval forum myself there may be a chance that I can help you.