31 December 1942 Part 6

31 December 1942 Year end placement of undated report Channel Islands traffic in the annual activity report

Editorial note: Undated activity report for the calendar year 1942, filed as Annex 7 in PG 37546 (January 1943). Placed at the end of its reporting year; 31 December is an ordering date, not an established issue date. The opening harbour-protection figures and coastal-battery claim concern Admiral Channel Coast as a whole, not solely the islands.

F. Admiral Channel Coast. Harbour-protection flotillas escorted 425,000 GRT without assistance from Naval Security Commander West’s forces; they fought four engagements with surface forces and experienced 214 air attacks. Successes: ten aircraft shot down and 87 mines destroyed by gunfire. Losses: seven harbour-protection boats.

F (continued). Personnel casualties: 39 dead, 73 wounded and five missing. In Channel Islands traffic, shipping totalling 1,981,477 GRT transported 550,000 tons of armed-forces supplies, 235,234 people, 14,517 animals and 3,071 vehicles.

Losses during ten enemy attacks: nine ships and six barges totalling 3,876 GRT lost; 6,234 GRT damaged. Personnel casualties: seventeen servicemen from ships’ crews or shipboard anti-aircraft detachments, fourteen civilian workers and 153 passengers dead; sixteen wounded. Coastal batteries achieved 33 confirmed aircraft destructions.

T-1022 Roll 4008; PG 37546 | frame 0213; PG 37546 | frame 0214. Extract from T1022_R4008_English_Translation.docx.