A Sons Tale

Non-Fictional story of 2 Royal Navy minesweepers that the authors father joined in ww2, both ships being surrounded in controversy, one became the last RN ship to be torpedoed and sunk during WW2 with only one survivor, but did the UBOOT fly the black flag? The other being a BYMS, newly built in the USA, she was hit by a Glider bomb in the Aegean in November 1943, but managed to reach Leros only to be captured as she sailed for repair by a German commander who spoke good English and duped them into following him, some of the crew managed to swim ashore and then make it to Turkey so evading capture, one even escaped from capture, they never swept any mines, but did the Kriegsmarine capture the Confidential Books ? . The CinC Levant wrote "The direction of these operations was seriously hampered by the capture of BYMS 72 at Kalymnos on the night of 11th/12th November which resulted in all the codes carried by these small craft being compromised"