The British Royal Navy undoubtedly had its moments of glory, but many atrocities brought eternal shame on the senior service.

One of the most notorious followed the sinking of a Greek caique by the British submarine, HMS Torquay.

During World War II, caiques, traditional Greek wooden fishing boats, were used by both Allied and Axis forces for various purposes, primarily in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. 

They were employed by special forces units, such as the Levant Schooner Flotilla, for reconnaissance, raiding, and troop transport. 

Caiques were also used for evacuations and even in combat, such as when a caique full of German troops was sunk by the HMAS Perth.

Following one of many casualties during the sea battles in which the Royal Navy and its allies attempted to stop German landings occurred when a number of the German servicemen aboard found themselves swimming in the sea.

Whilst trying to swim away, they were machine-gunned on the orders of the HMS Torbay’s commanding officer.

Official reports never mentioned that they were slaughtered in cold blood; only that they perished. 

Royal Navy sources claim that Commander Meir’s logbook of that patrol admits that the crew did machine-gun survivors.

This incident caused a near mutiny among the crew of the HMS Torquay. The submarine’s first officer and a soldier aboard refused to shoot the distressed Germans, members of an Alpine Regiment, who were stationed on the Greek island.

38-year-old Commander Anthony Mier, undoubtedly a war criminal as a consequence of this dreadful act, was later awarded the Victoria Cross in recognition of his services. He died in July 1985 at the age of 78.

If there was any good at all that came from this infamy, it was the outrage expressed by Captain Stephen Roskill, the Royal Navy’s official war historian.

He spoke of the machine-gunning of prisoners in the Mediterranean off Crete as disgraceful.

There was a similar incident in April 1940, which followed the sinking of the German destroyer Erich Giese in Norway. Many German survivors were shot out of hand.

Interviews with German survivors, including the captain of the destroyer, Commander Karl Schmidt, and inspection of British and German logbooks relating to the incident, reveal that an unspecified number of Germans were killed instead of being made prisoners of war.

Pondering on the woeful, humiliating end of the British Empire and, since 1945, the luckless end of migrant-infested Britain, one is often led to wonder if this is karma at work.

The German President-Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, was single-minded in his belief that the British people and the British Empire, a binding influence like the Catholic Church, must be preserved.

However, it was not to be: unelected Premier, an American citizen by birthright, lost both Britain’s status as a world power whilst destroying the empire Hitler sought to maintain. Such is historical truth, and such is the Nemesis of karma.

A CURSE FOR ENGLAND

A curse for England, false and base

Where nothing can prosper but disgrace

Where crushed is each flower’s tender form,

And decay and corruption feed the worm,

The winner’s shout, the loser’s curse

Go with Old England’s black funeral hearse.

William Blake (1757 ~ 1827)

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