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New loss information: UB 103 and UB 119
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Michael Lowrey
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Date: July 13, 2003 11:20PM
<HTML>I just got a copy of Robert Grant's new book "U-Boat Hunters." In it Grant presents evidence that changes our understanding of the losses of UB 103 and UB 119.
UB 103: The standard story has been that she was destroyed on September 16, 1918 while returning through Dover. This explanation, however, requires an excessively long patrol (34 days, UB 103 was only out 19 on the same area on her previous patrol). It also requires the extremely agrressive and sucessful Paul Hundius to not have sunk anything until the very end of the patrol. Spindler was not particularly impressed with this claim. Still, it stood in part because Admiral Keyes claimed that the wreck of UB 103 had been found.
Grant examined the records at the PRO and found no evidence to suggest that UB 103 had in fact been located though the RN certainly did look for her. Without this, the claim fails.
Grant suggests UB 103 was depth charged off Griz Nez on August 14, 1918. The Belgian diver Tomas Termote, however, found two unidentified UBIIIs off the Flanders coast. One of these could well be UB 103.
UB 119: Grant found evidence that she was rammed and sunk on May 5, 1918 by the steamer Green Island off the Irish coast.
Michael Lowrey</HTML>
UB 103: The standard story has been that she was destroyed on September 16, 1918 while returning through Dover. This explanation, however, requires an excessively long patrol (34 days, UB 103 was only out 19 on the same area on her previous patrol). It also requires the extremely agrressive and sucessful Paul Hundius to not have sunk anything until the very end of the patrol. Spindler was not particularly impressed with this claim. Still, it stood in part because Admiral Keyes claimed that the wreck of UB 103 had been found.
Grant examined the records at the PRO and found no evidence to suggest that UB 103 had in fact been located though the RN certainly did look for her. Without this, the claim fails.
Grant suggests UB 103 was depth charged off Griz Nez on August 14, 1918. The Belgian diver Tomas Termote, however, found two unidentified UBIIIs off the Flanders coast. One of these could well be UB 103.
UB 119: Grant found evidence that she was rammed and sunk on May 5, 1918 by the steamer Green Island off the Irish coast.
Michael Lowrey</HTML>
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New loss information: UB 103 and UB 119
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Michael Lowrey | 07/13/2003 11:20PM |
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SJH | 08/10/2003 09:38AM |
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SJH | 08/10/2003 09:50AM |
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Michael Lowrey | 08/10/2003 02:56PM |