British Secret Mission Submarine Home For Refit
(8.0. W,) RUGBY, Jan. 17. A British secret mission submarine is home for a refit. Her name is the Seraph and it is disclosed that this was the submarine which landed and re-embarked. General Clark and other United States staff officers to make first contact with Allied French leaders at a lonely point on Algiers coast before the Allied landings. It was .also the Seraph which embarked General Giraud off the coast of France and took him to the open Mediterranean where he transferred to a flying-boat which took him.to General Eisenhower’s headquarters. Those were two of many secret enterprises which the Seraph carried out during' 13 months of varied activity in the Mediterranean. She also carried out an important part in the invasion of Sicily and besides, on offensive patrols, has sunk over 7000 tons of shipping, damaging a further 10.000 tons. Her commander is Lieutenant N. L. A. Jewell, recently Awarded the Legion of Merit in the name of President Roosevelt for the part played in the invasion of Sicily.
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Northern Advocate, 18 January 1944, Page 6
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