 U @-@ 36 never left the Norwegian Sea and was sunk by the British submarine HMS Salmon . U @-@ 38 rounded the North Cape uneventfully and arrived in <unk> Bay by mid @-@ afternoon on 26 November . Running silently into the bay , U @-@ 38 had to avoid being spotted by merchant vessels in order to help maintain the Soviet Union 's attempted appearance of neutrality at that time . U @-@ 38 's captain commented that , while in the area of the North Cape and the Kola Peninsula , he had observed thirty to forty targets and regrettably had been " harmless to [ all ] of them . " 
