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Re: Sinking of Gibraltar
Posted by:
Oliver Lörscher
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Date: November 28, 2013 11:07PM
Hi Charles,
well, look at the chart, that position is too close to Gibraltar to be of any comfort for enemy submarines - so you only have to count german U-Boats on passage from the Atlantic to Mediterranean or vice versa.
A sinking of an submarine (any nation) is out of question, forget about that :-)
My idea was, that this battery fired mistakenly against an allied submarine (french or british, some are based at Gibraltar), which was on surface passage to/from Gibraltar and dived after being fired at.
That is the only explanation I have at hand...
E 38 was based there that time, but reported nothing like that, from the french side you will find AMPÉRE, PAPIN and DUPUY-DE-LÔME at Gibraltar, have no details on their movements.
But anyway, I'm not sure what really happened...
Oliver
well, look at the chart, that position is too close to Gibraltar to be of any comfort for enemy submarines - so you only have to count german U-Boats on passage from the Atlantic to Mediterranean or vice versa.
A sinking of an submarine (any nation) is out of question, forget about that :-)
My idea was, that this battery fired mistakenly against an allied submarine (french or british, some are based at Gibraltar), which was on surface passage to/from Gibraltar and dived after being fired at.
That is the only explanation I have at hand...
E 38 was based there that time, but reported nothing like that, from the french side you will find AMPÉRE, PAPIN and DUPUY-DE-LÔME at Gibraltar, have no details on their movements.
But anyway, I'm not sure what really happened...
Oliver
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Sinking of Gibraltar | Islandman | 11/27/2013 04:19PM |
Re: Sinking of Gibraltar | Islandman | 11/27/2013 06:14PM |
Re: Sinking of Gibraltar | Oliver Lörscher | 11/27/2013 06:29PM |
Re: Sinking of Gibraltar | Islandman | 11/27/2013 08:40PM |
Re: Sinking of Gibraltar | Oliver Lörscher | 11/28/2013 11:07PM |
Re: Sinking of Gibraltar | Islandman | 11/29/2013 01:20AM |
Re: Sinking off Gibraltar | Islandman | 12/08/2013 05:35PM |
Re: Sinking off Gibraltar | Oliver Lörscher | 12/09/2013 10:48PM |
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Re: Sinking of Gibraltar | Charles Yates | 04/12/2016 02:59PM |
Re: Sinking of Gibraltar | Jessica | 06/21/2017 04:05PM |