Edging his midget submarine X-6 stealthily through the anti-torpedo netting in place in Kaafjord, Norway, in the wake of a small coaster, Lieutenant Donald Cameron, RNR, slowly guided his craft towards the German battleship Tirpitz at anchor in the fjord.
Cameron had begun his sea service with the Merchant Fleet, joining in 1931 at the age of 17, and in August 1939 he was accepted into the Royal Naval Reserve as a commissioned officer. Cameron was appointed navigating officer of HMS Sturgeon, assigned to the Second Submarine Flotilla in November 1940, having recently married Eve Kilpatrick of the Women’s Royal Naval Service. Selected for ‘special service’ with X-craft, the Royal Navy’s new midget submarines, Cameron was appointed first lieutenant of XE3, the prototype in build at that time in Southampton.…
