On her last patrol U-249 left Norway and operated off the western entrance to the English Channel.  When she received the surrender order she surfaced and and few a black flag.  The boat was located off the Scillies by a U.S. PB4-Y flown by LT F.L. Schaum.  HMS Amethyst and Magpie met the boat and escorted her to Portland Bight.

 


 

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