HMS Quentin was lost, anyway, on 2 Dec. 1942 morning, some minutes past 6.30 AM, not 3 Dec.
Hi Enrico
Where did the 3rd appear? Everything I've read relating to your question stated the Quentin was sunk on the 2nd
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HMS Quentin was lost, anyway, on 2 Dec. 1942 morning, some minutes past 6.30 AM, not 3 Dec.
I can tell you that a detailed list of all air-sea rescues carried out by 6. Seenotstaffel (Sicily) has appeared in either Flugzeug magazine or in Jet & Prop magazine sometime between 1986 and 2002. I do not have mine any longer so I can not look for the article. I understand that most of the records of 6. Seenotstaffel survived the war, so you might want to contact BA-MA in Freiburg.Do you have the chance to know something about the German floatplanes and flying boats used for rescue service in the Mediterranean in Dec. 1942. In particolular did they recover any British sailors on 2 and 3 Dec. 1942 off La Galite Is. ? That would be the last piece of the puzzle.
Hi EnricoNOW things begin to settle. HMS Quentin was not lost by a torpedo bomber. Maybe it was a near miss bomb which can produce almost the same effect.
Flugzeug magazine was published by:Enrico Cernuschi wrote:Hello Lorenz,
may you be so kind to give me the exact name and publisher of that magazine you quoted about the SBK activities?
Have you got an e-mail address of what I presume is the Bundesarchive you labelled as BA MA?
With renewed thanks
EC
Hi Enrico,Enrico Cernuschi wrote:Hello Thomas,
the Stuka connection may be the decisive one. Perhaps is possible to discover the LW bomber land missions of that day finding, by exclusion, the author of HMS Quentin end.
A too much snooper
EC
What is recorded in the Admiralty papers?The Quentin accidend is not recorded in the Admiralty papers as a friend fire accident.
On the balance of evidence we have seen at present I would agree, but its not concrete.All that we have got is a sunk ship and a German theater command diary saying a bomber had obtiained, at least, a near miss.
2 + 2 = 4 I believe
Obviously I dont know the circumstances of Quiberon's Captains report. However I would suggest that he spoke to the Captain or senior officers & men from the Quentin, and that if he hadn't seen the attack for himself he was reporting the sightings & experiences of the Quetins Officers & crewAbout the HMS Quiberon Captain report I consider it a sort of literature, but not a serious proceeding. Anyway the Luftwaffe report of that same action would be the final word about this minor but interesting affair.