Funchal Harbour

The Maid Honor, a converted Brixham trawler operated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), departed Dartmouth on August 12, 1941, bound for equatorial West Africa. Her mission was to conduct covert operations against German U-boats and Axis shipping in the region, ultimately leading to the daring raid known as Operation Postmaster, which took place in January 1942 at the harbor of Santa Isabel on the Spanish island of Fernando Po (now Bioko, part of Equatorial Guinea). She dropped anchor on 25 August 1941 off Portugal's Funchal flying the Swedish flag and its crew wearing civilian clothes.

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Source

• Text: TracesofWar
• Photos: Pedro
• LETT, B.G., Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER, Pen & Sword Military, 2012.