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Re: Sinking of Gibraltar
Posted by: Islandman ()
Date: November 29, 2013 01:20AM

Hello Oliver,

Yes, I agree that we will never know what really happened but it is more than likely that a friendly submarine was actually fired upon; probably French as I think that the battery commander would have been severely reprimanded if it had been a British sub!

I had considered whether a German U-boat was after a "spectacular" by attacking an important British naval base, but I think this very unlikely in view of the dangers involved and the very poor "risk to reward" ratio; they would also have certainly not been on the surface!

In the end, I am just sure that no U-boat was sunk by that battery!

Charles

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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
Re: Sinking off Gibraltar Terry Reeves 04/12/2016 10:41AM
Re: Sinking of Gibraltar Charles Yates 04/12/2016 02:59PM
Re: Sinking of Gibraltar Jessica 06/21/2017 04:05PM


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