Thursday, 3 July

Destroyers INGLEFIELD and ACHATES departed Greenock at 1400 escorting battlecruiser REPULSE to Scapa Flow, where they arrived at 1000 on the 4th.

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British drifter RECEPTIVE (86grt/总吨位) was sunk on a mine in 51-20-50N, 0-54-35E.

T/Lt R.H.A. Remington RNVR, was lost in the drifter.

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Auxiliary ship ROSME (82grt/总吨位) was sunk on a mine in 51-34-12N, 1-03E.

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Finnish submarine VETEHINEN attacked Soviet steamer VIBORG (4100grt/总吨位) with gunfire north of Stenskaar.

The steamer escaped, but was sunk by the next day by Finnish submarine VESIKKO in 60-08N, 27-32E.

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Light cruisers AJAX (Rawlings) and PHOEBE with destroyers JACKAL and NIZAM departed Alexandria at 0100 on the 3rd arrived off Syria later that day.

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Submarine UPHOLDER sank Italian steamer LAURA COSULICH (5870grt/总吨位) in 37-55N, 15-44E, east of Calabria.

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Light cruiser PHOEBE, Australian light cruiser PERTH, and destroyers KINGSTON, HOTSPUR, and GRIFFIN swept off the Syrian coast.

Italian submarine MALACHITE attacked Light cruiser PHOEBE in 32-25N, 24-40E, without success.

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En route to Tobruk, Australian destroyer STUART sighted a submarine on the surface off Mersa Matruh.

Destroyer DEFENDER hunted the submarine without success, while destroyers STUART and VENDETTA continued to Tobruk.

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Submarine OSIRIS arrived at Malta with seventy tons of bulk petrol.

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Submarine UTMOST arrived at Malta from patrol.

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Corvette COREOPSIS and anti-submarine trawlers LADY HOGARTH and LADY SHIRLEY departed Gibraltar to join convoy OG.66. On joining, they relieved destroyers LANCE and LEGION which proceeded to Gibraltar.

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Convoy SL.80 departed Freetown escorted by armed merchant cruisers ESPERANCE BAY to 22 July and CANTON to 7 July,destroyer HIGHLANDER to 8 July, corvettes AMARNTHUS and BERGAMOT to 11 July, anti-submarine yacht SURPRISE to 9 July, and anti-submarine trawler CANNA to 11 July.

On the 23rd, destroyers BROKE and WOLVERINE to 29 July and VERITY to 26 July after a collision with destroyer BROKE and corvettes HIBISCUS and PERIWINKLE to 29 July, joined the convoy. The convoy arrived at Liverpool on the 29th.