17 November 1943 Part 1

17 November 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

09:20 — Weather: wind 328°, 7 m/sec. Three hostile aircraft twice circled the roadstead off St Peter Port and were engaged by anti-aircraft units. The St Peter Port harbour signal station observed two objects being dropped on bearing 68° at a distance of approximately 2 nautical miles.

14:20–15:53 — No. 3 gun of Batterie Mirus conducted proof firing. Ammunition expenditure: three 30.5-cm rounds. On the third round the same defect occurred as on 8 June 1943. No. 3 gun was again temporarily unfit for combat.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0727.