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Carpathia
Posted by: Frank Nemec ()
Date: March 03, 2003 03:38PM

<HTML>I could be overlooking something, but I found no link to the names of ships sunk by U-boats. In his book Sea Hunters II, Clive Cussler dramatizes the sinking of the Carpathia, the ship that rescued the survivors of the Titanic. In his "story" he reports the U-boat as U-55, skippered by Gerhardt Werner. There is, in fact, a WWI U-55 listed in uboat.net, but it was skippered by Wilhelm Werner if my memory serves. Cussler also reports ..."One of the new types, five hundred feet in length." That's a BIG sub, especially for WWI. uboat.net reports the U51 type sub to be about 62m -- just under 200 feet.

Is there a cross reference that connects an allied shipping loss with the responsible U-boat?</HTML>

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Carpathia Frank Nemec 03/03/2003 03:38PM
Re: Carpathia Michael Lowrey 03/04/2003 01:45AM
Re: Carpathia Phil Cullen 03/04/2003 08:23AM
Re: Carpathia MAX 03/04/2003 03:59PM
Re: Carpathia Deryck. Swetnam 03/09/2003 10:31AM


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