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Re: Post war sinking from U boat mines?
Posted by: Anonymous User ()
Date: September 17, 2015 11:06PM

hi nick this is a real long shot but its worth a final go ,,, i am telegraphist frank salts son ,im trying to trace anyone that may have served with him

nicknobbyclark Wrote:
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> It was actually a Royal Navy laid mine that sunk
> HMS Kurd. Her flotilla had been moved to Plymouth
> (Mill Bay Dock) in order to clear a British
> minefield of some 800 mines laid in a 'V'
> formation, South of Lizard Point. These mines were
> for anti-submarine purposes.
>
> The loss of HMS Kurd is often incorrectly recorded
> as a mine laid by U-218 18 Aug, 1944.
>
> I was a good friend of one of the survivors from
> HMS Kurd, the late Ted Godding whose story can be
> found on my web site.
>
> Nick Clark
> www.rnpatrolservice.org.uk



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Re: Post war sinking from U boat mines? ussbatfishfan 06/26/2010 11:16PM
Re: Post war sinking from U boat mines? nicknobbyclark 07/04/2010 08:31AM
Re: Post war sinking from U boat mines? Rainer 07/04/2010 10:07AM
Re: Post war sinking from U boat mines? nicknobbyclark 07/04/2010 12:52PM
Re: Post war sinking from U boat mines? Rainer 07/04/2010 04:09PM
Re: Post war sinking from U boat mines? nicknobbyclark 07/04/2010 06:08PM
Re: Post war sinking from U boat mines? Anonymous User 09/17/2015 11:06PM
Re: Post war sinking from U boat mines? trevor salt 09/25/2015 01:06AM
frank salt can anybody remember him trevor salt 10/06/2015 08:12PM


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