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Re: Sinking of Gibraltar
Posted by: Oliver Lörscher ()
Date: November 28, 2013 11:07PM

Hi Charles,

well, look at the chart, that position is too close to Gibraltar to be of any comfort for enemy submarines - so you only have to count german U-Boats on passage from the Atlantic to Mediterranean or vice versa.

A sinking of an submarine (any nation) is out of question, forget about that :-)

My idea was, that this battery fired mistakenly against an allied submarine (french or british, some are based at Gibraltar), which was on surface passage to/from Gibraltar and dived after being fired at.

That is the only explanation I have at hand...

E 38 was based there that time, but reported nothing like that, from the french side you will find AMPÉRE, PAPIN and DUPUY-DE-LÔME at Gibraltar, have no details on their movements.

But anyway, I'm not sure what really happened...

Oliver

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Sinking of Gibraltar Islandman 11/27/2013 04:19PM
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Re: Sinking of Gibraltar Oliver Lörscher 11/28/2013 11:07PM
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Re: Sinking off Gibraltar Oliver Lörscher 12/09/2013 10:48PM
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