19 November 1942 Part 9

19 November 1942 Detailed ammunition and radar report from Alderney

Editorial note: Additional firing detail for the 18–19 November radar engagement already represented in the naval accounts. The reported times are not identical.

At 23:39 on 18 November, three fast targets twelve kilometres north of Alderney failed to answer recognition signals. Battery Elsass fired sixteen salvoes, including fifteen illuminating rounds; West and Blücher each fired ten salvoes. Fire ceased at 23:54; final range was 24.7 kilometres, targets moving north. Visibility extended to Les Casquets, fourteen kilometres. From 06:45 on 19 November targets approaching from north-northeast at 21.6 kilometres were engaged by Blücher and West, three salvoes each. They turned north; final detection at 07:00 was twenty-four kilometres. Visibility through good glasses was four kilometres.

T-314 Roll 1603, expanded reading edition T314_R1603_English_Translation.docx. 19 November 1942 | Source PDF pages 645. Supplement to material retained from earlier editions.