24 August 1942 Part 5

Summary

Shipping loss or rescue. Shipping and convoy movements. Weather report

Location Details

Guernsey; Alderney; Casquets; Cherbourg

Diary Entry

24 August 1942 Alderney Harbour Commandant diary

Clear, visibility 12–15 nautical miles, SSE 1–2, sea 1. 0400: Vp 704/707 arrived from Guernsey with Georgi. 0640: HS 192 returned from patrol. 0830: Vp 704/707 departed for Cherbourg with Georgi, Dorsch and a buoy tender. 2025: HS 135 went to patrol position.

According to Channel Islands Harbour Protection Flotilla, Alderney Group, report G 344/42 of 25 August, boat FK 19, returning from Les Casquets to Alderney, was set off course by the current, struck the rock L’Equet at 1620 and sank.

Source of Information

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37995, scan 0410.