20 August 1942 Part 1

20 August 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 270°, 2 metres per second.

09:14: heightened combat readiness cancelled; normal readiness restored. From 20 August, St Peter Port harbour was closed from nightfall until daylight by a hawser barrier at C buoy. A fixed buoy stood in the centre; an eighty-metre passage remained between the buoy and the north mole head.

At Alderney a hawser barrier and four hundred metres of double net had been laid from the end of the breakwater towards Bibette. The entrance was now two hundred metres wide and marked by two Fliegerinseln [air-sea rescue floats/platforms; German term retained].

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scan 0491.