ABSTRACT
In the no-moon period of April 1942, operations from Gibraltar to the Côte d’Azur began with a bang. In the five nights between 18/19 April and 22/23 April, Seawolf landed Roehr at Port-Miou to organise a first evacuation, put three SOE agents ashore at La Napoule and embarked 41 Poles from Port-Vau;1 HM S/m P42 landed two SOE W/T operators at Antibes and embarked de Gaulle’s future Commissaire a l’Interieur before proceeding to land two other SOE agents at Miramar-de-l’Esterel on the following night;2 and Slocum’s newly arrived 200-ton diesel trawler Tarana put Pat O’Leary and a W/T operator ashore in the Port-Vendres area.3 So concentrated was this activity that the felucca and the submarine actually sighted each other when P42 was underway on the surface without lights. Seawolf mistook her for a French naval patrol ship.
