I can almost picture the screenplay. A German submarine, having been many months away from home, having had some close escapes, spots a British warship and torpedoes it but realises just too late that it is a merchant ship and not a warship. Resorting to the web, my life as a screenwriter was ended before it started. U-35 did not sink the Diamantis – or did it . Reality provided a perfect cinematic twist in Commander Werner Lott, who was in charge of U-35, being rescued by Lord Louis Mountbatten’s flotilla. He returned to West Kerry 45 years later - 30 years before I became aware of U35. | U-BOAT IN VENTRY HARBOUR 1939 |