Wednesday, 30 August

Western Atlantic - German liner BREMEN (51,656grt/总吨位) departed New York Harbour and evaded heavy cruiser BERWICK and Australian light cruiser PERTH which were patrolling off the US east coast outside territorial limits.

BERWICK had departed Newport, Rhode Island on the 29th and was calling at Bar Harbour, Maine, but failed to make contact with BREMEN. This was in spite of efforts to delay the German ship in harbour until she could be in a position to intercept.

British Home waters - battlecruisers HOOD and REPULSE departed Rosyth, via Invergordon for Scapa Flow where they arrived later that day.

Destroyers JERVIS, JAVELIN, JUPITER, ECHO departed Dover for Grimsby, where they arrived on the 31st.

Polish destroyers sail for Britain - BLYSKAWICA, BURZA, GROM departed Gdynia in Operation “Pekin.” It had been decided to get them away from Poland rather than have them destroyed without any opportunity to do damage in return. They were ordered that should German ships be encountered while en route, BURZA, the oldest of the three, would fight a delaying action and allow the other two to escape. Shortly after leaving port, they were sighted by U.31 north of Hela.

Still on the 30th, the destroyers first encountered destroyers BRUNO HEINEMANN, ERICH STEINBRINCK, FRIEDRICH ECKHOLDT, FRIEDRICH IHN on patrol between Bornholm and the Bay of Danzig and then, on the 31st, light cruiser K?NIGSBERG near Falsterbo Light Vessel. Although the Polish and German ships trained their guns on each other, neither opened fire. The last sighting was by U.6 on Kattegat patrol later on the morning of the 31st, but contact was soon lost. Otherwise, the passage was uneventful!

The Polish ships were joined by destroyers WALLACE and WANDERER 30 miles off May Island, and they all arrived safely at Leith in the Firth of Forth at 1730 on 1 September. From there, the Polish destroyers departed Rosyth on 6 September and arrived at Plymouth on the 9th.

German Home waters - Following her contact with the Polish destroyers, K?NIGSBERG proceeded to Wilhelmshaven via the Kiel Canal for operations in the North Sea.

U-boat movements – U.1, U.3, U.4 (Type IIA )and U.36 (Type VIIA) of the U-Boat Training Flotilla departed Kiel and arrived at Wilhelmshaven the next day for operations in the North Sea.

U.6 (Type IIA) departed Kiel for operations in the Baltic.

U.14 (Type IIB) departed Memel for operations off the Polish coast.

Atlantic - light cruiser DURBAN departed Plymouth for Gibraltar.

Destroyers HYPERION, HAVOCK, HOTSPUR, HUNTER departed Gibraltar for duty at Freetown, arriving on 3 September.

Pacific - light cruiser LEANDER departed Auckland to land troops at Fanning Island, the site of the Trans-Pacific submarine telegraph cable station. The troops were landed on 13 September and LEANDER returned to Auckland.