Bretonian Armed Forces Defense Intelligence Staff (DIS) (iRP) (AO)

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Priority: Medium
To: Admiralty Board
From: Flag Officer Jacob Fraser
Location: HMS-Macduff, Newcastle



Honourable Admirals,

I will report an escort mission here, which took place to support Operation Valletta

Earlyer that day i got a message from the captain of the Bowex-vessel Lipton, which was about to deliver marines to planet Leeds to support the planetary resistance. He asked if we could escort the assembling convoy and so we moved first to the Suffolk to pick up some marines ourselves.

After that we met the other participants at Southampton Shipyard. The convoy first consisted of the Bowex)Lipton (Shire-transport), the Butcher (a Liner), the BPA)Forge (a clydesdale), the HMS-Talisman and the BAF|A-HMS-Elephant, but later on we got help from a BMM vessel (namely the BMM)BadgerMurder). After a short talk I was appointed to take command, which I did.

We moved to the Leeds system through the New London jumphole, first sending the BPA)Forge to scout the route. After we got clearence to move we quickly reached the planet. The Talisman and the Elephant took position to guard the convoy while the two freighter pilots started to shuttle the marines to the surface. Still there was no enemy contact and after we were done, we moved back to New London where the convoy disbanded.

The convoy started with 8695 marines of which 306 were lost while they were about to be shuttled to the surface for no apparent reason and one stayed onboard the Lipton due to a loading error. Nevertheless i take full charge. So the number of delivered marines is 8388.
On the way back we took as many refugees with us as we could possibly, but due to their bad condition and belongings we could only ship half as much as we moved marines.

All in all the mission was a succes but my thoughts are with the lost marines.
Gladly we had no other losses.

In short:
We moved a lot of reinforcements to planet Leeds (8695 -306 -1)
No fights to be reported
also see the report here



Sidenote:
There was an incident yesterday which should be mentioned;
A Liberty Navy Carrier (callsign TheHelper) was sighted in New London without any orders to be there.
The captain seems to have made a mistake, since he left Bretonia after we arrived there. But its remarkable that he did not leave Bretonia when the BPA) told him to, but first warships had to roll out.

Yours sincerly,
Jacob Fraser