20 June 1942 Part 3

20 June 1942 Alderney Harbour Captain diary

Clear, E 1–2, visibility 3–4 nautical miles, sea 1. 0525: HS 3/12 returned from patrol. 1145: HS 29/188 arrived from Guernsey. 1915: HS 183/192 and Georgi arrived from Cherbourg. 2030: Minesweepers 4600, 4604 and 4607 arrived from Cherbourg with Lena, Schwalbe and Antonius. 2100: HS 3/12 went to patrol position. Also at 2100, HS Pirat, Michael and Jeanne d’Arc arrived from Guernsey.

2144: About twelve British fighter aircraft crossed the island from west to east. 2154: The signal station reported a patrol boat burning about three nautical miles east of the island. Four harbour-protection boats and tug Loiret put out to assist. 2225: Vp 211/213 entered harbour under their own power. According to Vp 213’s commander’s report to the Sea Commander at Cherbourg, the section had been attacked by eight Spitfires. 2230: Minesweepers 4600, 4604 and 4607 departed for Cherbourg with Sperber, Heinrich and Weber. 2245: After all doctors on the island had been notified, five seriously wounded and nineteen moderately or lightly wounded were taken ashore by harbour-protection boats from the patrol boats in the roadstead and given medical treatment. [The diary’s two aircraft counts describe different reports; neither has been replaced by the other.]

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37995, scan 0391–0392.