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RE: Supply ships
Posted by:
Brian Corijn
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Date: June 30, 2001 07:00PM
<HTML>Thanks Andrew, I also did some research with the names you came up with.
Belchen was sunk by HMS Kenya
Egerland was sunk by the heavy cruiser HMS London and the destroyer Brilliant
Python was sunk by HMS Dorsetshire
I also found this on the end of the tanker Brake (Charlotte Schliemann was hunted by the same task force until scuttled):
In Mauritius, at the beginning of March, a force (codenamed C.S.4), consisting of two cruisers, HMS NEWCASTLE (wearing the flag of Admiral Commanding Fourth Cruiser Squadron) and HMS SUFFOLK, an escort carrier, HMS BATTLER, and two destroyers, HMS QUADRENT and HMS ROEBUCK, was being formed. Seven Catalinas of 259 and 265 Squadrons were also made available, their operations setting the western limit to the area in which the enemy could safely supply his U.Boats.
C.S.4 sailed from Mauritius on the 6th March 1944. From the 8th March onwards HMS BATTLER\'S aircraft had to face severe weather, yet, on the 11th and 12th, a number of the flying crews spent eight hours in the air, some making night patrols as well.
At about 10.00 hrs on the 12th, their exertions were rewarded by the sight of a tanker and two U.Boats making off on a south-westerly course. The tanker, subsequently found to be the BRAKE, had just refuelled U.188 - with considerable difficulty, judging by the oil that surrounded the latter - and was now trying to find easier conditions in which to complete her task.
Things were now hotting up and at 10.18 hrs HMS ROEBUCK was ordered to attack the enemy. She had only just finished being refuelled by the HMS SUFFOLK in the most difficult conditions, but she set off at full speed, aircraft from HMS BATTLER dropping messages on board, showing the range and bearing of the tanker and U.Boats.
At 11.16 hrs HMS ROEBUCK sighted the enemy at 13 miles and ten minutes later opened fire. BRAKE was hit and soon burning and she sank just after 12.00 hrs. The two U.Boats, one of which was U.188, had submerged but in the evening they were found on the surface and attacked by aircraft from HMS BATTLER. One of them was severely damaged. However U.188 managed to submerge and slipped away undamaged.
Greetings
Brian</HTML>
Belchen was sunk by HMS Kenya
Egerland was sunk by the heavy cruiser HMS London and the destroyer Brilliant
Python was sunk by HMS Dorsetshire
I also found this on the end of the tanker Brake (Charlotte Schliemann was hunted by the same task force until scuttled):
In Mauritius, at the beginning of March, a force (codenamed C.S.4), consisting of two cruisers, HMS NEWCASTLE (wearing the flag of Admiral Commanding Fourth Cruiser Squadron) and HMS SUFFOLK, an escort carrier, HMS BATTLER, and two destroyers, HMS QUADRENT and HMS ROEBUCK, was being formed. Seven Catalinas of 259 and 265 Squadrons were also made available, their operations setting the western limit to the area in which the enemy could safely supply his U.Boats.
C.S.4 sailed from Mauritius on the 6th March 1944. From the 8th March onwards HMS BATTLER\'S aircraft had to face severe weather, yet, on the 11th and 12th, a number of the flying crews spent eight hours in the air, some making night patrols as well.
At about 10.00 hrs on the 12th, their exertions were rewarded by the sight of a tanker and two U.Boats making off on a south-westerly course. The tanker, subsequently found to be the BRAKE, had just refuelled U.188 - with considerable difficulty, judging by the oil that surrounded the latter - and was now trying to find easier conditions in which to complete her task.
Things were now hotting up and at 10.18 hrs HMS ROEBUCK was ordered to attack the enemy. She had only just finished being refuelled by the HMS SUFFOLK in the most difficult conditions, but she set off at full speed, aircraft from HMS BATTLER dropping messages on board, showing the range and bearing of the tanker and U.Boats.
At 11.16 hrs HMS ROEBUCK sighted the enemy at 13 miles and ten minutes later opened fire. BRAKE was hit and soon burning and she sank just after 12.00 hrs. The two U.Boats, one of which was U.188, had submerged but in the evening they were found on the surface and attacked by aircraft from HMS BATTLER. One of them was severely damaged. However U.188 managed to submerge and slipped away undamaged.
Greetings
Brian</HTML>
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