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Re: U 76
Posted by: Michael Lowrey ()
Date: April 15, 2003 05:49AM

<HTML>Kirill,

The steamer has never been identified. Kplt Bender norted:
"Because of the snow flurries we did not see the steamer until she was three thousand meters away. She was approaching from port. We turned 30 degrees to starboard, went to full speed, and dove. While we were going under the steamer rammed us just aft of teh conning tower and the engine room was taking water quickly. I blew the tanks and surfaced. The steamer was just five hundred meters away and was proceeding as though nothing had happened. I don;t know if she was just a normal steamer or an auxiliary, but I'm sure she had no idea she had rammed a U-boat..."

Unable to dive, Bender tried to sail home on teh surface only to have both diesel enegines fail.

The wreck was raised and broken up in the early 1970s.

(Quote of Bender's statement from Dwight Messimer's book Verschollen, page 93.)

Best wishes,

Michael</HTML>

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U 76 Kirill Klementuev 04/15/2003 01:56AM
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