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RE: US Battleship vs. U-boat?
Posted by: Brian Corijn ()
Date: May 01, 2001 09:07PM

<HTML>USS Texas was an old battleship, she was commissioned in 1914, even before the first world war broke out.
Her maximum designed speed was 21 knots.

I also found this text on the following website [www.usstexasbb35.com]

June 1941, the U.S. is not in the war yet, but is escorting convoys half way across the Atlantic to where England takes over the escort duty ( Neutrality Patrol ). Now the following has been claimed in a couple of different books that
I have read but yet when we examined the ship log book in the archive we could not find any reference to being fired on by the German submarine U-203. But they say that on June 20 while escorting a convoy the USS Texas was attacked by
U-203 with a torpedo but luckily it missed.

Yngvi says that there were no shots fired.
now what is the truth?</HTML>

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Subject Written By Posted
US Battleship vs. U-boat? Frank Blazich 04/30/2001 02:51AM
RE: US Battleship vs. U-boat? Yngvi 04/30/2001 02:19PM
RE: US Battleship vs. U-boat? Frank Blazich 05/01/2001 03:51AM
RE: US Battleship vs. U-boat? Simon 05/01/2001 03:40PM
RE: US Battleship vs. U-boat? kurt 05/01/2001 06:56PM
RE: US Battleship vs. U-boat? Brian Corijn 05/01/2001 09:07PM
RE: US Battleship vs. U-boat? Yngvi 05/01/2001 11:32PM
RE: US Battleship vs. U-boat? Frank Blazich 05/02/2001 02:40AM
RE: US Battleship vs. U-boat? Brian Corijn 05/02/2001 03:59AM


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