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Re: Japanese Sub Movie "Lorelei"
Posted by:
ROBERT M.
()
Date: March 15, 2005 05:06PM
michel:
I'm sorry if you think that there is a m isunderstanding between.
I agree with you when you say: "It would be very stupid to disrupt the normal work of a yard on useful ship during 3 month(s) to
refit an obsolete sub in order to sink her later."
According to George Young, the author of "Who Killed SURCOUF?" , "On February 12, SURCOUF left Bermuda, able only to travel on the surface, for Blaison would certainly be reluctant to dive with with one of his electric motors out of commission. She set off across the U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic to oblivion! Officially, she was never heard from again. Or was she? Next day, on February 13, a signal to SURCOUF read: "B.N.L.P. (British Naval Liaison Party) to be withdrawn at either Bermuda, or Colon. SURCOUF to be under C.O. F.F.N. (Commanding Officer, Free French Navy) Pacific on board LE TRIOMPHANT........"
"In a last letter home to his wife before leaving Bermuda, "Plum" Warner said that reliefs had arrived for himself and Gough, but as
they were considered to be inexperienced, the change of personnel did not take place. He also mentioned kangaroos and cockatoos in the letter in an effort to let her know he was going in the direction of Australia or thereabouts."
My point is this; if SURCOUF was in Bermuda during the first part of February, (and that is documantted by the radio traffic) how could she have been sunk near Block Island Sound by two U.S.
submarines?
I rest my case........
I will take you up on the offer of the characteristics of French (WWII) torpedoes.. My address is:
Robert F. Marble TMCS(SS) USN (Ret)
87 Ramblewood Street
Port Charlotte, FL - 33953-1024 (USA)
Regards,
ROBERT M.
I'm sorry if you think that there is a m isunderstanding between.
I agree with you when you say: "It would be very stupid to disrupt the normal work of a yard on useful ship during 3 month(s) to
refit an obsolete sub in order to sink her later."
According to George Young, the author of "Who Killed SURCOUF?" , "On February 12, SURCOUF left Bermuda, able only to travel on the surface, for Blaison would certainly be reluctant to dive with with one of his electric motors out of commission. She set off across the U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic to oblivion! Officially, she was never heard from again. Or was she? Next day, on February 13, a signal to SURCOUF read: "B.N.L.P. (British Naval Liaison Party) to be withdrawn at either Bermuda, or Colon. SURCOUF to be under C.O. F.F.N. (Commanding Officer, Free French Navy) Pacific on board LE TRIOMPHANT........"
"In a last letter home to his wife before leaving Bermuda, "Plum" Warner said that reliefs had arrived for himself and Gough, but as
they were considered to be inexperienced, the change of personnel did not take place. He also mentioned kangaroos and cockatoos in the letter in an effort to let her know he was going in the direction of Australia or thereabouts."
My point is this; if SURCOUF was in Bermuda during the first part of February, (and that is documantted by the radio traffic) how could she have been sunk near Block Island Sound by two U.S.
submarines?
I rest my case........
I will take you up on the offer of the characteristics of French (WWII) torpedoes.. My address is:
Robert F. Marble TMCS(SS) USN (Ret)
87 Ramblewood Street
Port Charlotte, FL - 33953-1024 (USA)
Regards,
ROBERT M.
