The Last Action of the Calcutta Light Horse 1943
'Shipping losses from German submarines in the Indian Ocean were threatening to cut off essential supplies of munitions for the defence of India against Japan. Intelligence had identified a network of informers from Shipping Offices in Bombay, organised by a German spy know as 'Trompeta' resident in neutral Portuguese territory in Goa. A transmitter in the German merchantman, the 'Eherenfels', interred in Mormugoa Harbour, passed the time of each sailing to the German U-Boats. Few ships using the port of Bombay escaped them' - from the forward to Lames Leasor's book, 'The Boarding Party - the Last Action of the Calcutta Light Horse' published in 1978 . MV 'Eherenfels' built 1935 of 7752 grt, with twin diesels At the the outbreak of WWII, a German merchant ship ‘Ehernfels’ was moored in Mormugao Harbour on the West Coast of India, in neutral Portuguese territory, secretly transmitting details of the movement of Allied shipping sailing in a...