SECRET MISSIONS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21305, 18 January 1944, Page 3

SECRET MISSIONS

BRITISH SUBMARINE

SERAPH RETURNS HOME

(British Official Wireless.)

(10 a.m.)

RUGBY, Jan. 17

The British “secret mission’’ submarine is home for relit. Her name is Seraph and it is disclosed that this was the submarine which landed and re-embarked Lieut.-General Mark Clark and other United States staff officers to make the flrst contact with the pro-AUied French leaders at a lonely point on the Algiers coast before the Allied landings in North Africa.

It was also the Seraph which embarked General Giraud off the coast of France and took him to the open Mediterranean, where he was transferred to a flying-boat, which took him to General Eisenhower’s headquarters. Those were two of the many secret enterprises which the Serap'h carried out during her 13 months’ varied activity in the Mediterranean. She also carried out an important part in the invasion of Sicily and, besides offensive patrols, she has sunk over 7000 tons of shipping and damaged a further 10,000 tons. Her commander is Lieutenant N. L. A. Jewell, who was recently awarded the Legion of Merit in the name of President Roosevelt for the part he played in the invasion of Sicily;