Re: Daring Rescue !
Posted by:
Michael Lowrey
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Date: May 01, 2004 04:15PM
Alemap,
The story as you relate it is generally correct but with a key detail left out. Völker (spelling per Messimer’s book "Verschollen") signed on to the Swedish bark Ironstrop at Hull. When that vessel was stopped and examined by U 16 in the North Sea on October 1, 1915, Völker identified himself to the boarding officer.
Völker was lost on U 44.
A war pilot was a merchant marine officer taken on board to help identify landmarks and merchant ships while on patrol.
Best wishes,
Michael
The story as you relate it is generally correct but with a key detail left out. Völker (spelling per Messimer’s book "Verschollen") signed on to the Swedish bark Ironstrop at Hull. When that vessel was stopped and examined by U 16 in the North Sea on October 1, 1915, Völker identified himself to the boarding officer.
Völker was lost on U 44.
A war pilot was a merchant marine officer taken on board to help identify landmarks and merchant ships while on patrol.
Best wishes,
Michael
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