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Re: Mediterranean U-boats
Posted by: Michael Lowrey ()
Date: June 11, 2005 12:57AM

Bruce,

1) Sept. 24, 1915: no sinking, no boats overdue. In fact, apparently only one German U-boat was at sea on this date; UC 14 was en route back to Cattaro from Constantinople and arrived back in the Adriatic on the 24th. There are no U-boats that go missing at anywhere near this time in the Mediterranean, Black, Aegean, or Adriatic seas.

2) Early April, 1916 would have to have been U 35. The brief summary I have from Yves is: 20-Mar-16 to 8-Apr-16, Cattaro-E.Med-off Alexandria-off Crete-Cattaro. There are no other boats that would have been anywhere near that area. All boats at Constantinople were operating against Russia at this time. (U 33 was even sent to help, leaving only five large boats for the rest of the Med.)

Germany was not yet at war with Italy, but U-boats in the Med pretended to be Austrian and still attacked Italian shipping when they came across it. I have U 35 as also being U 35 in Austrian service.

Best wishes,

Michael

Best wishes,

Michael

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Mediterranean U-boats bruce dennis 06/10/2005 10:52PM
Re: Mediterranean U-boats Michael Lowrey 06/11/2005 12:57AM
Re: Mediterranean U-boats Yves D 06/11/2005 06:10AM
Re: Mediterranean U-boats bruce dennis 06/11/2005 03:13PM


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