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The Strange WW2 Escape that No One Believed for 50 Years - EndtheMadnessNow - 01-29-2023
It was the chilly winter night of December 6, 1941, and Navy stoker John Capes was dozing off on his makeshift bunk bed made from an old torpedo tube. His vessel, the Parthian-class British submarine HMS Perseus, surfaced calmly while recharging her batteries under cover of the night near the shore of the Greek island of Kefalonia. Amazing 10 min story.
Noted this comment: "It should be mentioned that Capes was not on the manifest of the Perseus because he was tending to a court case (supposedly) in Malta and missed his assigned submarine, which I believe was called HMS Thrasher. He was a hitchhiker on the Perseus, which was part of the "Magic Carpet" fleet that, as you rightly pointed out, was charged with keeping Malta supplied. On the Island, I have heard tell over the years from the locals in Mavrata (I live on Kefalonia) that some believed Capes was some kind of intelligence officer, However, I could never confirm this.. Lastly, a point of interest is that a Lieutenant Merlin of the Royal Greek Navy was also a guest on the Perseus and on his way to Alexandria to take command of a Greek submarine. From accounts of the locals Merlin, whose family was from Kefalonia, and Nicolay were outside on the conning tower so that the Greek officer could catch a look at his home Island as the batteries charged... I hope these tidbits were of interest."