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Re: British submarine H.5 sinking
Posted by:
Ron Young
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Date: June 15, 2009 05:39PM
Hello Jenny
Here are some more examples:
At position 54° 23’N 00° 24’W off Scarborough and very soon after, the crew of a Royal Navy motor-launch spotted the U-boat and from that moment on, an ad-hoc little band of RN trawlers and motor-launches, reinforced by HM Yacht VANESSA II, hunted her relentlessly. With heavy seas running that evening, UB 107 surfaced in full view of HM Trawler CALVIA, which radioed for immediate assistance, bringing HMY VANESSA II racing to the scene. The two vessels, along with another trawler dropped a pattern of depth charges around U-boat. Some of the devices must have detonated very close to her, because shortly after, a mass of oil, bubbles and wreckage rose to the surface. The three warships stayed in position overnight and the following morning the crew of HMY VANESSA II recovered the headless body of a man in what appeared to be a German naval uniform, floating on the surface. This was taken as proof by both sides that UB 107 had been lost. She went down with the loss of all of her crew of thirty-eight, including the captain. The customary bounty was paid to the RN crews for sinking the U-boat
The crew of the Q-ship PRIVET received a bounty of £1,000 for sinking a U-boat (deemed to be U 85) and the following awards were made:
For sinking U 89, a British Prize Court awarded ROXBURGH a bounty of £210 on 28 July 1919, based on £5 per crewman on board the U-boat. The post war study by the Germans also concluded that ROXBURGH did sink U 89.
In August 1919 the crew of G13 were awarded £145 for sinking the U-boat. The bounty was based on £5 per crewman, but they over paid, because UC 43 carried a crew of twenty-six.
Cdr. Geary-Hill was awarded the DSC and Marshall Reay received a DSO for their part in the destruction of U 104. Based on crew of forty, a British Prize Court also awarded HMS JESSAMINE a £200 bounty for sinking the U-boat, £5 per head. However, the bounty was over-paid, because U 104 allegedly only carried thirty-six crewmen
I suppose there were lots more, but these are just some that we researched that were sunk around the UK coast
Cheers Ron
Here are some more examples:
At position 54° 23’N 00° 24’W off Scarborough and very soon after, the crew of a Royal Navy motor-launch spotted the U-boat and from that moment on, an ad-hoc little band of RN trawlers and motor-launches, reinforced by HM Yacht VANESSA II, hunted her relentlessly. With heavy seas running that evening, UB 107 surfaced in full view of HM Trawler CALVIA, which radioed for immediate assistance, bringing HMY VANESSA II racing to the scene. The two vessels, along with another trawler dropped a pattern of depth charges around U-boat. Some of the devices must have detonated very close to her, because shortly after, a mass of oil, bubbles and wreckage rose to the surface. The three warships stayed in position overnight and the following morning the crew of HMY VANESSA II recovered the headless body of a man in what appeared to be a German naval uniform, floating on the surface. This was taken as proof by both sides that UB 107 had been lost. She went down with the loss of all of her crew of thirty-eight, including the captain. The customary bounty was paid to the RN crews for sinking the U-boat
The crew of the Q-ship PRIVET received a bounty of £1,000 for sinking a U-boat (deemed to be U 85) and the following awards were made:
For sinking U 89, a British Prize Court awarded ROXBURGH a bounty of £210 on 28 July 1919, based on £5 per crewman on board the U-boat. The post war study by the Germans also concluded that ROXBURGH did sink U 89.
In August 1919 the crew of G13 were awarded £145 for sinking the U-boat. The bounty was based on £5 per crewman, but they over paid, because UC 43 carried a crew of twenty-six.
Cdr. Geary-Hill was awarded the DSC and Marshall Reay received a DSO for their part in the destruction of U 104. Based on crew of forty, a British Prize Court also awarded HMS JESSAMINE a £200 bounty for sinking the U-boat, £5 per head. However, the bounty was over-paid, because U 104 allegedly only carried thirty-six crewmen
I suppose there were lots more, but these are just some that we researched that were sunk around the UK coast
Cheers Ron
