Her four oars were serviceable, so Commissioned Engineer Waldron took command and she set off east past Cape Maleas, towing two Carley floats and their occupants. In the evening the wind increased, causing the floats to strike the boat, so Waldron reluctantly cast them adrift. Waldron was also nursing a Leading Seaman, George Fuller, who had bullet wounds in his belly and thigh. At 1900 the cruiser and seven destroyers reached Souda Bay and disembarked evacuated troops. The Vice Admiral, Light Forces, Henry Pridham-Wippell, became concerned that "Diamond" was not among them. Between 1922 and 1955 hrs repeated attempts to radio "Diamond" drew no reply. "Wryneck" had been ordered to keep radio silence so no attempt was made to radio her. Instead "Phoebe" and "Calcutta" were asked if they had seen her, but their replies at 2235 and 2245 hrs were indefinite. Pridham-Wippell sent the destroyer to the position in the Argolic Gulf where "Slamat" had been lost. "Griffin" found 14 survivors in two Carley floats. At 0240 hrs she reported the rescue, said both destroyers had been sunk about 1330 hrs and she was still looking for "Wryneck"s whaler. In the morning she found more floats and another four survivors. She took the survivors to Crete. The last living survivor from "Slamat", Royal Army Service Corps veteran George Dexter, states that after "Wryneck" was sunk he and three other men were rescued by "Orion". On the morning of 28 April the whaler was about off Milos in the Aegean Sea, so she set course for the island. At noon she sighted Ananes Rock, about southeast of Milos, so Waldron decided to land there as everyone was exhausted. The rock has a bay, where the whaler found a caïque full of Greek refugees and British soldiers who had set out from Piraeus, were headed for Crete, but were sailing only by night to avoid detection. In the evening the caïque left Ananes and headed south for Crete. As many as possible of the survivors transferred to the caïque, but she was very full so she towed the whaler with five men still in it. On the morning of 29 April the caïque sighted a small landing craft, "A6", which had set out from Porto Rafti near Athens.