Naval Service FOI Cell 
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Our Ref: 22-10-2008-081736-002 
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 Mr J Postle                                                                                                  24 October 2008 
 Via email: [FOI #3695 email] 
 
 
 
            
     
Dear Mr Postle, 
 
Thank you for your correspondence received 21 October 2008 requesting information 
reference an incident that took place off the coast at Shingle Street, Suffolk between 1939 
and 1945. Your enquiry has been considered to be a request for information in accordance 
with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). 
 
Regrettably, the Department does not hold the information specified in your request, 
however, the National Archives may hold information that could be of interest to you and 
can be contacted as follows: 
  
Website:  
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk  
Post:   The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU. 
 
You may wish to be aware that a fee may be payable if you apply to the National Archives 
for any actual information. 
If you are unhappy with this response or you wish to complain about any aspect of the 
handling of your request, then you should contact me in the first instance.  If informal 
resolution is not possible and you are still dissatisfied then you may apply for an 
independent internal review by contacting the Director of Information Exploitation, 6th Floor, 
MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail [email address]).  Please note that 
any request for an internal review must be made within 40 working days of the date on 
which the attempt to reach informal resolution has come to an end. 
If you remain unhappy following an internal review, you may take your complaint to the 
Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the Freedom of 
Information Act. Please note that the Information Commissioner will not investigate the 
case until the internal review process has been completed. Further details of the role and 
powers of the Information Commissioner can be found on the Commissioner’s website, 
http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk. 
Yours sincerely 
 
Heather Godfrey 
 
 

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