OPERATION SHINGLE

US submarine chaser SC 1022 - sister to SC 1029

SC-1029

With thanks to Lt Cmd. Lesley L. Clark USN [Rtd]
who, at the time, was YN1C aboard SC 1029

The following extract is from SC 1029's War Diary [page 8].

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	DATE	TIME	EVENT
	29 January 1944	0630	Red alert - general quarters - underway.
		0745	Planes in - bombs dropped.
		0755	All clear.
		0805	Moored to ATR-1. View
		1250	Red alert - general quarters.
		1310	All clear.
		1645	Planes in - bombs dropped.
		1646	Red alert - general quarters.
		1720	All clear.
		1740	Red alert - general quarters.
		1750	Ordered to make smoke.
		1752	Commenced to make smoke.
		1755	Planes in - glider bombs observed - HMS Spartan hit aft.
		1756	Secured smoke gear.
		1800	Stern to HMS Spartan's starboard quarter - taking survivors over the stern and hoisting them from water.
		1807	This ship loaded to capacity - 100 to 125 survivors aboard, many wounded.
		1810	Underway to discharge survivors aboard HMS Delhi in accordance with orders from CTF 81.
		18501	Moored alongside HMS Delhi.
		1930	All survivors transferred.
		1940	Underway for SS Alexander Martin.
		2000	Picked up two survivors from whale boat alongside SS Alexander Martin.
		2050	Discharged survivors aboard HMS Dido. View
		2140	Moored astern LCI.
		2200	Red alert - general quarters. Underway. Smoke generator inoperative due to damage sustained taking on survivors.
		2205	Flares overhead.
		2210	Bombs dropped.
		2300	All clear.
		2315	Moored aft LCI.
	30 January 1944	0800	Underway.
		1145	Red alert - general quarters.
		1215	All clear.
		1431	Report of damages made to CTF 81.
		1635	Discharged smoke oil alongside SC 522.
		1740	Underway to join convoy to Naples, Italy, in accordance with verbal instructions from CTF 81.