HMAS HOBART, (cruiser), reached Suez, on her way to replace HMAS PERTH, (cruiser), in the Mediterranean.
The loss of HMAS WATERHEN, (destroyer), on 30 June, raised in the Admiralty the question of financial adjustment between a Dominion and Great Britain, when a vessel on loan was lost in war. The Admiralty finally decided:- ‘My Lords do not think it appropriate to make any claim in view of the actual circumstances of the vessel’s loss’. The decision was followed in respect to HMA Ships VAMPIRE and VOYAGER, (destroyers), which were in the same category as were both lost by enemy action.