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Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168
Posted by: Eric J Bakker ()
Date: April 23, 2001 10:44AM

<HTML>Information from logbook Hr.Ms. Zwaardvisch.
Patrouillerapport - Patrolreport
6th October 1944
0505 Dived at dawn North of Coenoeng Laasem and set course 280 degrees towards Mandalika.
0641 Sighted submarine bearing 305 degrees, range 3 miles (enemy contact 4).
Started attack.
0652 Fired 6 torpedoes.
0653 Heard 1 explosion.
0654 Submarine sunk.
0703 Surfaced, Picked up 27 survivors. Took 22 to a fishing vessel. Kept 5 Germans as prisoner.
0745 Proceeded on the surface towards Mandalika. Reloaded 6 spare torpedoes.
1000 Dived and kept submerged patrol off North coast of Java near Mandalika.
1200 Position 06º11\'S 111º06\' E.
1900 Surfaced. Proceeded on course 085 degrees, speed 9 knots. I decided to give this part of Java\'s North coast a rest for a few days, as certainly A/S acticity could be expected here, and to explose the shipping route West of Bawean.

Hr.Ms. Zwaardvisch\'s Journal
The journal says something about this Friday the 6th October 1944 in Dutch.
My English is not so good, but will try to translate this interesting information.

DW III/IV. Position 06º20.5\' S 111º28\' E. Submurged. 0630 Uboat seen in bearing
301ºr.w. Course 110ºr.w. Alarm-battle station. All tubes ready till - the pin out.
064103 First torpedo. Fire with 5 seconds interval, total 6 torpedoes from tube 1, 2
, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Port tubes 6 feet, starboard tubes 10 feet depth. Perceive hit at 064143. Look through periscope uboat is sinking, great listing forward.
0656 ends alarm-battle station.
0703 Sailing to wreckage to pick up survivors.Picked up 27 men. 22, supplied with medicine, handed over to sailingproa. Taken onboard as pow: 4 officers: Kapitän Lt. Helmuth Pich, CO, Marinestabarzt d.R. Georg Wenzel, Oberleutnant (Ing) Heinz Niemann, Oberleutnant d.R. Hans Baenge and sailor Matrose Obergefreiter Hannes Feiertag.
De CO of Hr.Ms.Zwaardvisch - Luitenant ter zee der 1e klasse H. Goossens wrote a remark in ink, Big boat, presumable 1600 ton, course 110, navigation 14\'5.\'

Note that there is a difference of 11 minutes for the action in the Patrolreport and the Journal. We have to take the Patrolreport time as the right time.

Hope that this information is interesting for other forumreaders.
yours Eric</HTML>

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Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168 Eric J Bakker 04/23/2001 10:44AM
RE: Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168 Visje 04/23/2001 11:24AM
RE: Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168 Fin Bonset 04/23/2001 01:35PM
RE: Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168 Visje 04/23/2001 04:44PM
RE: Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168 Eric 04/23/2001 06:19PM
RE: Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168 Fin Bonset 04/23/2001 06:35PM
RE: Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168 Dietzsch 04/24/2001 04:29AM
RE: Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168 Visje 04/24/2001 07:07AM
RE: Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168 Eric 04/24/2001 09:11PM
RE: Submarine versus Uboat - Zwaardvisch - U168 Fin Bonset 04/25/2001 10:56AM


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