With infinite patience and a very delicate touch, Wanklyn sorted. out the mangled fingers and strapped them up. For the next four days Wanklyn painstakingly dressed the injured fingers of his. patient until he could be transferred to a Military hospital in Gibraltar. Due to Wanklyn's skill and patience, Baker regained. the full use of his hand. Upholder eventually arrived at Malta on 10th January, 1941.
Upholder's first four patrols yielded no successes, and doubts were raised as to Wanklyn's competence. However, on her fifth. patrol off Cape Bon, Upholder compensated for her earlier misses with a vengeance - sinking three enemy convoy vessels and 'finishing off' an abandoned supply ship.
Following Upholder's seventh patrol, her commander was
