Submarine Surfaces in the Middle of a City – Then Maintenance Workers Peek Inside

Commander H.R. Voss

Gerald Parr, the maritime historian Declan had earlier spoken to, identified the name within four hours. Commander Henry Raymond Voss, Royal Navy, was reported killed in the North Atlantic on 14th February 1942 when his vessel was struck by an enemy torpedo. He was listed in the National Roll of Honour. There was a memorial plaque in a church in Portsmouth. His widow had remarried in 1947.

And yet his name was written on the inside cover of a German submarine’s logbook, with a date of entry in late 1943—more than a year after his official death.