Operations
Operation CREEK was described in the 1978 book Boarding Party by James Leasor. A “factional” account in which, for ostensibly deniable purposes, the Calcutta Light Horse, reinforced by some members of the Calcutta Scottish, raided the neutral port of Marmagoa on 9 March 1943. In the port, a German ship the Ehrenfels had been providing information to 3 German U-boats, on the movement of Allied shipping with the result that some 250,000 tons of British shipping had been sunk over a period of 45 days. After a journey from Calcutta, via Bombay, in the Hopper Barge Phoebe, the Ehrenfels was boarded and destroyed along with two other German ships, in addition to one Italian ship. The film The Sea Wolves, released in June 1981, was based on the book and starred Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven and Trevor Howard. It was filmed on location in Goa.
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