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Re: Cathrine Survivors & Submarine Encounter
Posted by: Rainer ()
Date: June 17, 2012 12:34PM

Hi Mark

I was looking into the case of CATHRINE recently because the sinking position given by the survivors (350 miles southwest of Cape Clear) is too far from the position reported by U-43.

You were probably checking the wrong area because the actual sinking position was about 600 miles west of Cape Clear. U-43 did not identify its victim, but U-204 identified a lifeboat and a raft encountered in approx. 48°45N/23°15W on 20 June as being from CATHRINE. I also wondered about the statement of the survivors that they saw a young boy aboard U-204, but have no explanation for this.

I've updated our page about this ship accordingly and changed its sinking position to 49°09N/25°05W as reported by U-43.

Best regards
Rainer

Crew member of uboat.net

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Cathrine Survivors & Submarine Encounter Mark McShane 06/16/2012 08:00PM
Re: Cathrine Survivors & Submarine Encounter Rainer 06/17/2012 12:34PM
Re: Cathrine Survivors & Submarine Encounter Mark McShane 06/17/2012 06:56PM


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