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Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917
Posted by: Joern ()
Date: December 04, 2006 12:13PM

Hi Clio and Michael

Steinbauer wrote:

13.8. Northwest Ireland. Wind and sea nord strenght 3, clouded.

1630 o'clock, 3-mast schooner with swedish flag, about 500 t. observed. Forced the crew to leave the schooner after more hits with shells, thereafter we dived. 8 crew members observed leaving in a lifeboat and non observed on the schooner. Could observe all of the schooners deck without seeing any suspicious. Dived out again at a range of 1000 m. Then the lifeboat was heading back towards the schooner and we signalled "abandon ship". With our deckgun manned we sailed nearer to the schooner. Suddenly we observed people on the deck and the swedish flag was changed with the british navalflag. From the foredeck they opened fire with a small caliber canon and on the afterdeck they they were turning a heavier canon towards us. After I ordered "Alarm" and before we dived, my deck crew scored a hit close to the heavy gun on the afterdeck on the schooner. This hit maybe saved us, because there was no fire from this canon, they only hit us with one shell from the small canon before we disappered. Then we left, but stayed in the area because we wanted to sink this ship.
In the dusk we closed in on the schooner, first on the surface and then submerged. The schooner sailed slow and was zigzagging towards the wind without changing the spread of canvas, which showed us that it was motordriven. On both sides of the schooner was two small boats, but couldn't see if it was motorboats or submarines in the darkness.

14.8. Dark, clouded, rainshower, strong phosphorescence, wind NW strength 3 - 4.

0135 o'clock. It was to dark to fire a torpedo submerged, we then surfaced. The schooner was heading NE on a high speed. At 0305 o'clock we fired a torpedo at a distance of 400 m. but the torpedo missed. The torpedo was not observed from the schooner. At 0325 o'clock we fired a second torpedo at a distance of 700 m. The torpedo hit the schooner midship which resulted in a very big explosion. After the explosion the schooner had vanished from the surface.

Regards
Joern


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Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Clio 12/04/2006 07:32AM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Michael Lowrey 12/04/2006 07:52AM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Clio 12/04/2006 08:19AM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Michael Lowrey 12/04/2006 08:57AM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Joern 12/04/2006 12:13PM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Ron 12/04/2006 02:28PM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Clio 12/04/2006 06:32PM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Oliver Lörscher 12/05/2006 05:13PM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Clio 12/05/2006 07:14PM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Oliver Lörscher 12/06/2006 02:00PM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Clio 12/07/2006 03:53PM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Clio 12/07/2006 08:38PM
Re: Q Ship Prize August 14th/15th 1917 Oliver Lörscher 12/07/2006 08:55PM


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