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Re: upholder
Posted by:
Antonio Veiga
()
Date: October 30, 2001 06:56PM
<HTML>Hy Tony
I think nobody knows the exact location of the wreck.
"On the 12th April Upholder was ordered to form a patrol line with Urge and Thrasher to intercept a convoy but it is not known if this signal was ever received. The submarine failed to return to harbour on her due date.
It is the most likely is that she was Depth-charged and sunk by the Italian torpedo boat Pegaso northeast of Tripoli, 14th April 1942, although no debris was seen and the position of the attack would have put Upholder 100 miles out of position.
A second theory is that the submarine hit a mine near Tripoli on the night of 11th April, supported by the fact that a submarine was sighted approaching a minefield."
(source: [www.argonet.co.uk])
"Upholder did not reply to Tomkinson's signals, and she was never heard from again. On 18th April, Italian radio, at 1300 and again at 1400, mentioned the name of the captain of a torpedo boat who had sunk a submarine on the 16th in the central Mediterranean, and it became finally clear that Upholder would lie forever on the bottom of the shallow sea along with the 82,000( * ) tons' worth of ships which she herself had sunk."
(*) NOTE: 97,000 tons as per other sources
(source: "Allied submarines of World War Two" by Kenneth Poolman)
Anyway you may send your question in the British subs´forum :
[submariners.community.everyone.net]
Best regards</HTML>
I think nobody knows the exact location of the wreck.
"On the 12th April Upholder was ordered to form a patrol line with Urge and Thrasher to intercept a convoy but it is not known if this signal was ever received. The submarine failed to return to harbour on her due date.
It is the most likely is that she was Depth-charged and sunk by the Italian torpedo boat Pegaso northeast of Tripoli, 14th April 1942, although no debris was seen and the position of the attack would have put Upholder 100 miles out of position.
A second theory is that the submarine hit a mine near Tripoli on the night of 11th April, supported by the fact that a submarine was sighted approaching a minefield."
(source: [www.argonet.co.uk])
"Upholder did not reply to Tomkinson's signals, and she was never heard from again. On 18th April, Italian radio, at 1300 and again at 1400, mentioned the name of the captain of a torpedo boat who had sunk a submarine on the 16th in the central Mediterranean, and it became finally clear that Upholder would lie forever on the bottom of the shallow sea along with the 82,000( * ) tons' worth of ships which she herself had sunk."
(*) NOTE: 97,000 tons as per other sources
(source: "Allied submarines of World War Two" by Kenneth Poolman)
Anyway you may send your question in the British subs´forum :
[submariners.community.everyone.net]
Best regards</HTML>
| Subject | Written By | Posted |
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upholder
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tony | 10/30/2001 03:35PM |
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Re: upholder
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Antonio Veiga | 10/30/2001 06:56PM |