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Germans advance in Crimea
Tuesday, November 4, 1941 www.onwar.com
On the Eastern Front... The German advances into the Crimea continue. Feodosia falls to the German 170th Division.
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November 4th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: Leicester: A woman who refused to sign up for war work with the army ordnance department is fined £2.
Submarine HMS Unbroken launched.
Battleship HMS Duke of York commissioned.
Submarine HMS P-511 (ex-USS R-3) commissioned.
Submarine ORP Jastrzab (ex-USS S-25) commissioned.
(Dave Shirlaw)
FRANCE: U-81 left Brest, but headed back some hours later after discovering they did not have charts for their operational area. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: U-509 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
FINLAND: Second evacuation of Soviet troops from Hanko. One destroyer and one sweeper lost in mines. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: Feodosia falls the the German 170th Division. The Germans are making good progress throughout the Crimea.
Soviet submarine V-2 launched.
Soviet submarine M-58 sunk by depth charges from Romanian destroyer Maria. (Dave Shirlaw)
SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town: British and South African naval ships have intercepted a Vichy French convoy carrying tin and rubber from Indochina to Germany. The convoy of five ships, escorted by a sloop, the D’Iberville, was captured by four cruisers. The ships tried to scuttle, but boarding parties took them over and prevented the holds from flooding.
The action has already drawn predictable protest from Vichy which regards it as akin to piracy. The convoy was carrying “supplies for the natives of French West Africa, and for French people in the unoccupied zone”, according to a statement from Vichy. “There was no contraband or material that could be used for war.” For some time Britain has watched impotently while Germany brings vital war supplied into Europe on French vessels.
On 30 March a convoy of four French merchantmen escorted by the destroyer Simoun was seen passing the Straits of Gibraltar. When Royal Navy ships ordered the convoy to halt it took refuge in the Algerian port of Nemours. At the time Vichy said that the ships were bringing food to the native Algerians. Later the convoy reached Marseilles. It was carrying rubber from Thailand. This time the Allies have ensured that the rubber has not got through.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Major General Brereton arrives on Pan American Clipper to take up his appointment as Commander, FEAF, bringing with him a draft of revised Rainbow-5 calling for defence of entire Philippine Commonwealth. (Marc Small)
CANADA: Corvette HMCS The Pas arrived Halifax from builder Montreal, Province of Quebec. (Dave Shirlaw)
i believe the Prince of Wales will soon be on the bottom off Singapore