2 November 1942 Part 1

Summary

Shipping and convoy movements. Weather report

Location Details

Jersey; St Aubin’s Bay

Diary Entry

2 November 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 45°, 1 metres per second.

03:00: clocks put back one hour. 03:45: convoy 3344 anchored in St Aubin’s Bay, Jersey. One man aboard a steamer had been killed and two seriously wounded. At 00:32 in grid BF 2937 the convoy had encountered the enemy; an enemy E-boat disappeared from view burning. Otherwise no special occurrences.

Signed Steinbach.

Source of Information

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scans 0541–0542.