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Re: Carpathia
Posted by: Phil Cullen ()
Date: March 04, 2003 08:23AM

<HTML>Hello there,

Wilhelm Werner claimed to have sunk the Carpathia on 17-7-1918 on his last patrol in the U 55. He gave the location as 49.41N 10.45W.

Its off the east coast of Ireland and the wreck was located a couple of years ago in 171 m of water. Werner used 3 torpedos in order to sink her with the loss of 5 lives.

Information taken from the KTB ( war diary) of the u 55

Regards
Phil CullenMichael Lowrey wrote:
>
> Frank,
>
> The standard reference for finding oout which ship was sunk
> by which U-boat is the official German history by Admiral
> Arno Spindler ("der Handelskrieg mit U-Booten" portions of
> "Der Krieg Zur See" series.)
>
> We are working on putting a data base of such sinking
> attribution on this site in the conning tower area. It is a
> large task - over 7,000 ships were sunk, damaged, or captured
> by U-boats in World War One. For now just ask questions in
> this forum.
>
> Spinlder does attribute the sinking of the Carpathia to U 55
> under the command of Kplt. Wilhelm Werner.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Michael</HTML>

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Subject Written By Posted
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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