BELGIAN SHIP SUNK TORPEDO OR MINE INTERNATIONAL LAW VIOLATED The number of British vessels reported sunk by enemy craft since the war began had on Saturday reached 21, with a total tonnage of 122,843. Reports were received on Saturday that four ships had been sunk, including the neutral Belgian cargo ship Alex van Opstal … Read Article
Steamship [38M] – Cargo AMMUNITION. Detail in Dive Dorset: 288 p201 & Clarke: GPS; 50 28.25N; 01 45.34W. 11 miles SSE of Anvil point. Attacked by Aerial Torpedoes while supporting the Normandy Landings. Ship detail in LARN. Refs. LCWLR: WW2, p757 & Lloyd’s Register: 1945-6 (A)
REPORT OF AN NTERVIEW WITH CAPTATN DAVID L EVANS MASTER OF THE S.S. AENEAS We were bound from London to Glasgow with a general cargo of 5000 tons. The colour of our hull. was black superstructure and funnel grey. We were armed with a 4.7″, 12 pdr. and a Lewis gun. We had wireless on … Read Article
Used in Operation ‘Dynamo’, the Dunkirk evacuation fleet. Hit mine in the Swash Channel the wreck raised in June 1945 and dumped in Studland Bay with the PRINSES JULIANA and HMS SONA. All the naval crew were killed in the explosion. Ref. LCWLR: WW2 p83 & Notice to Mariner No. 35 of 1947.