Yes, U-124 was attacked by HMS Clyde on 17 October, 1940. Sorry for any misunderstanding. Since there were many attacks -- under different conditions and in varied locations -- between Allied submaries and U-boots, Vichy French, Italian, and Japanese submarines, I was trying to provide a list to give the OP a basis to start looking. I regret any errors, but my list was not meant to be comp
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In regards to "The War in the Atlantic", yes, there were a number. Look at the "Attacks on this Day" on the "Events on this Day" pages on this website. Particularly in the first 6 months of the war, air patrols were thin and poorly organized; there were a number of Typ II Uboots that were operating around the British Isles and they would often make the transit jour
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Hi, Gerald. Look at the "boat page" on this website and also you might want to see This may help. BH NC USA
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I live west of Cape Lookout, NC. The local charter boat operators who take fishermen out in the Atlantic to fish know of a "wreck" site on Wimble Shoals that attracts fish. I dunno if this site is the place that Cpt. Oliver is describing. It's listed about being about 131 feet depth.
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Do you have the number for the U-Boot you are trying to find? If so, see Hope this helps.
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There was a stage in the training of many U-boot captains called "Kommendantenchuler" (forgive me if that spelling is incorrect) - often translated into English as "Commander under training". In addition to theoretical instruction and work on "school boats" in home waters, this was an opportunity for officers being trained to work with experienced captains on actual
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Deck guns are shown about 6:25 - 6:35. A quick look seems that they are a 37 mm Flak gun and two twin 20 mm Flak machine gun/cannons. Is this correct?
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Mark, what was your father's date of birth, please?
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I had an idea that "Thomsen" might have been at least possibly based upon K-F Merten (and I don't remember now why) but on second look, U-68 was a Typ IX boat - thus, not likely to have been based with 7th Flotilla in St. Nazaire with U-96 - and Merten wasn't really active until mid-1941, so that seems to have been a misapprehension. The "lying on the bottom at Gibraltar
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To get a better idea of U-boat operations in the Far East, see: (Gives good info on day-to-day relations between German and Japanese personnel.) (Especially, check the patrol info for the boats listed in the group above. Also, a number of boats left Europe (mostly Bordeaux and Flensburg) to go to the Indian Ocean and/or Panang but were lost bef
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OK, U-572 was sunk 3 Aug, 1943 north-east of Trinidad. One more data point.
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New information and research comes to light all the time. Especially informative are dive or ROV explorations that find boats "where they shouldn't be". There is also a process where claimed sinkings can be assessed against reported attacks -- in these cases, if the boat lived to report it, the boat wasn't sunk. And I think that Dr. Neistle' will be the first to agree
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I noticed in "Today's Date" listings that U-359 had been sunk south of Santa Domingo in late July, 1943. That seemed late to me; I looked up data on Typ XIV supply boats and found that May - early August was a terrible time for the supply boats. In mid-May, 1943, Donitz had 8 Typ XIV boats: in just over two months, he had only 2 left. Of those, U-460 was out of service (returnin
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Have a look at this website: If the mechanical translation makes any sense, "wotan stahl" was manufactured by Krupp-Thyssen (but it may be that "wotan" was a specification with sub-types like "hart" ("hard") and perhaps steel to these specs could be sold to the shipbuilders by any steelmaker?)
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Yes, thank you, that clears it up. The "Amerika" word I was confident on, the "vor" I was having trouble with. This is another point that it's *not* the name of the ship. Best wishe, BH
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In the discussion on uboatwaffe.net, there is some talk about these two photographs (the pair originally linked by PF) being two different ships. I do not think that this is likely at all -- there is a rounded structure (bridge area??) in front of the funnel that is unusual and it's the same on both; the funnel and twin masts are identical. What makes me quite sure it's the same ship
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John, I haven't studied this in depth but I get the impression that German "Navy tradition" saw scuttling at the end of WWII as a continuation of the grand scuttling at Scapa Flow after WWI. I think that the sailors who subscribed to the idea that scuttling was an "honorable" way at the end were sort of primed to go along with the plan. I have also seen accounts that sa
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For some information, you can see
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Ah, yes, Beaufort not Manteo. Sorry, I recently flew into Manteo and had it on my brain. Thx.
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LCdr, yes, I will do this. My mother's distant cousin, David Williams a radioman, was killed in a testing flight at Manteo airport. A Stinson wasn't like a PB4Y, but they were still important!
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I am glad to hear that an item of "ephemera" has survived! I wonder how it happened to be preserved. Thank you for this info; the next time I'm in Germany, I'll go to see this museum. Best wishes, BH (Also, please send a photo to brucebear (AT) att (dot) net -- convert to "non-spam" format, please.)
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As a North Carolinian, it has always amazed me how closely to US shores that Operation Paukenschlag boats were able to operate. We know how poorly US Atlantic coastal defences were organized, manned and equipped in 1942 but still, the capability of U-boats to operate and attack is (and certainly was) stunning. And we tend to forget that for the first 2/3rds of the War, submarines were really su
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Oh, and you had asked about cargo. U-boats were used later in the war to transport strategic materials to and from bases shared with Japanese forces in southeast Asia. See the page for U-234 and also the pages for Type IX-D2 boats.
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The answer is sort of vague. Some U-boats were in the middle of the ocean and sent a message saying "all OK" and were never heard of again. Others sent a message that indicated distress (or a totally garbled message) and were never heard of again. Others had been under major repair and went out with the plan of returning to port after a "test trip" which often involved a te
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Yes, Robert, these are some of the photos that I referred to. Also, there are photos of U-505 (I think at Portsmouth) but they're not so clear - maybe a look at original copies (i.e. before being "shrunk" as part of being scanned or converted to digital format) would show the screws more clearly. Particularly, the later photos of U-505 show what looks like a "bite mark&quo
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Especially since "H" and "J" are next to each other on the typewriter keyboard, that would seem to make a typo more likely in this case.
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To add, if I were guessing (and it will only be a guess), I would say that U-505 is more likely to have propeller dents than most average boats. If you'll look at photos on this site and also on www.uboatarchive.net, you'll notice that the boat is shown out of the water frequently (some photos seem to be associated with US tests and naval measurements after the surrender). Besides thi
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vS - I don't have any exact references but if you'll check out the KTB's and "uboatarchive" (http://www.uboatarchive.net), you will see many records like "the Boat left port on this date but had to return due to noise caused by ..." Many times, the problem is noted as being a bent propeller or drive shaft (also, bearings, engine clutches, etc. but props and s
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What country are you in?
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This is just a general question but I've been struck by the record of many late-war Typ V11 (often VIIC or VIIC/41 boats). If you look at the boat data page, they'll very often read something like: U-boat U-7**, Type VII/41 Commissioned; Aug, 1943 Aug, 1943 - May 6, 1945; 8-Flotilla, Training May 6, 1945; Scuttled, wreck broken up If you look at earlier boats, there's a ran
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