on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 Gordon Evans wrote Belated thanks to Ron, Andy, David, Rod & Colin for their interesting & informative responses to my post. A cargo of potential munitions-timers, heading for a wartime 'spy-hotbed' port, would seem good enough reason for the CHASSERAL to have been targetted by the RAF. >>>>>>>>> Bearing in mind the near-contemporaneous multiple attacks on the Swedish Red Cross ship mentioned earlier, it might be premature to imply that this was an intelligence-led deliberate attack. I have no idea at the moment whether the RAF had any information on the cargo of intended voyage of the CHASSERAL, but have seen it claimed that three was at that time a degree of "if it moves, hit it" in the Western Med. Probably the files at Kew will clarify this. David