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Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568
Posted by: Josephbremez ()
Date: July 26, 2009 03:26PM

Hi Debbie and welcome to the forum,

We have two facts concerning the disappearance of the Queenborough. She sailed on
or about 21 March '17. U86 sank a British trawler on 23 March 1917.

KptLt Crusemann saw the port number of the trawlers he sank. When recalling the
incident in his kriegstagebuch (war diary), he wrote or typed GY568. GY568 is the
Valentia which was NOT sunk and survived the war. The only logical conclusion is
that Crusemann transposed the numbers. GY658 is the trawler he sunk and GY658 is
the Queenborough. Other combinations of the number 6,5and 8 e.g. 586, 685, 856
and 865 reveal no missing or unaccounted for trawlers.

I don't have a copy of U86's KTB. Perhaps Simon or some other esteemed member of
the forum can help with these questions. Was the trawler armed? Did Queenborough
resist? Where and at what time did the action take place?

Hope this explaination helps.

Sincerely

Joe R

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U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Simon S. 02/24/2009 09:13PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Michael Lowrey 02/24/2009 09:54PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Michael Lowrey 02/25/2009 12:07AM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Josephbremez 02/25/2009 01:28AM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Simon S. 02/25/2009 09:10AM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Josephbremez 02/25/2009 06:09PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Josephbremez 05/30/2009 12:55AM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Simon S. 05/30/2009 12:00PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Josephbremez 05/30/2009 01:22PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Simon S. 05/30/2009 01:47PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 djcollett 07/25/2009 03:59PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 djcollett 07/25/2009 04:03PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Simon S. 08/06/2009 07:19AM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Josephbremez 07/26/2009 03:26PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 djcollett 07/26/2009 07:00PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Michael Lowrey 07/27/2009 02:53AM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 djcollett 07/27/2009 07:08PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Yves D 08/07/2009 08:20PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Ron Young 08/09/2009 12:57PM
Re: U 86 - Trawler G.Y. 568 Ron Young 08/09/2009 07:32PM
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