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in again to the half mile limit and at 1am started to lay, 2am all mine are laid, a sight of relief to know they are all off the ship, we are again spotted by the lurking E-boats, but we go into action and sink two of them, the captain calls in down for more speed as there are dozens of them closing in around us, we do the speed this secret ship was made (designed) to do and get clear of them ok, very lucky the waves are coming right over us as the speed we are doing is unheard of in any Navy and it’s a great secret. We arrive in Pompey 9am, 19^th we load again,186, it’s getting us down, eat, sleep…