Naval History Homepage and Site Search. Note: all vessels and aircraft are British or Dominion unless otherwise identified - click for abbreviations. Friday, 15 September. Survivors were picked up by a Belgian trawler.
British aircraft bombed a submarine contact 60 miles east of Aberdeen. There was no contact, and the ships were badly battered by heavy weather. British trawler SILURIA grt passing between them during their hunt, rode over a submerged object which she reported as a suspected submarine. Convoy FN. UK-France convoys - BC. The following DB. UK-out convoys - OA. She was towed off by five tugs, but a towing line fouled a propeller. Saturday, 16 September. The cruisers arrived back at Halifax on the 20th, while the convoy reached Liverpool on the 30th.
British east coast β convoy FS. British submarine H. No damage was done. At , the search was abandoned as a "non-sub" contact. The cruisers returned on the 18th.
She was sailing as an independent crossing ahead of convoy OB. A ship in OB. The entire crew were towed in their boats by the submarine to within five miles of the coast. Sunday, 17 September. With a damaged bottom, she remained at Trondheim until early October when she left for repairs at Tingvold arriving on 6 October. She underwent repairs until 7 April , then left Tingvold for Ulvik in Hardangersfjord.
This move did not save her during the Norwegian campaign as she was soon captured by Norwegian forces, but only until 20 April when she was recaptured by German naval forces. Returning on the 20th, she was ordered to proceed through Fair Isle Channel, due to submarine activity in Pentland Firth and arrived back on the 21st.
