HC Deb 19 November 1958 vol 595 cc155-6W
80. Brigadier Clarke

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty why a German submarine was permitted to arrive in Portsmouth on a training visit on Armistice Day.

Mr. R. Allan

All visiting ships belonging to the navies of our N.A.T.O. Allies are, as a matter of courtesy, permitted to arrive in United Kingdom ports on a date mutually most convenient for the purposes of their visit. This treatment was, naturally accorded to the German submarine "Hecht".

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