105 surface, he was picked up by one of the local boats and was kept in custody, because Sheikh Abdullah al-Hammadi, Governor of Khorfakkan was not available that day there. He had left to Lingeh on the Persian Coast. Someone was sent to Lingeh to call him back but was told that Sheikh Abdullah had already gone into the interior tribal areas of the Arabs. The news of the German captive saved from the sunken German submarine spread everywhere. As a result, the British authorities sent the HMS Hiravati to Khorfakkan with Mr Rogers on board to interrogate the German survivor. The German captive stated that his name was Gunther Schmidt, and that the submarine had left the city of Lorient on 5 July 1943 to the Atlantic ocean, then sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to the Indian Ocean and from there made its way to the mouth of the Gulf. The German prisoner was taken on board the British military ship, which soon after sailed away.17 17 Ibid., L.P.&S/12/3940,EXT.1504/1944,No.5−B, pp.1−4, I.O.R./R/15/2/702, pp.36, 40,42. A WAR TIME MILITARY BASE IN SHARJAH
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