The first Board of Enquiry was held to investigate why HMS Registan had not obeyed certain signals from Naval command to alter course during the day of Tuesday the 27th of May 1941. She was en route from Glasgow to Southampton and for reasons established during the enquiry she received the signals to alter course for Milford Haven too late. The order to alter course was then countermanded and she continued on a heading which would have taken her around Lands End to head up the English Channel to Southampton. It was later that night, while 8 miles off the Cornish coast, that she was attacked by enemy bombers.
