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Re: U-286 any comments

Posted by: Douglas Hadfield ()

Date: January 18, 2011 06:23PM

What the two sailors said is correct. To add to it, credit for sinking U286 was given also to HMS Loch Insh, which explains the reference to Squid, which Loch Insh had, but so far as I can remember colony class and captain class frigates like Anguilla and Cotton did not. On the same day Loch Insh alone is credited with sinking U307, and picked up the survivors, 14 of them according to uboat.net, which is mostly very accurate.

I can remember this well because it was the only uboat I saw on the surface in 14 months as Radar Officer with B2 Escort Group and B19 Support Group; in this period I had spent several days in these three frigates and about ten others. On this occasion I was in Loch Shin with the Senior Officer of the Group, which also was engaging U307. I heard our gun on the forecastle firing at something, but we could see nothing on the radar screen. I looked outside the radar cabin and saw the uboat only a few hundred yards away. It was so close that its radar echo just merged with the groundwave.
Whether U286 or U307 was the last to be sunk I cannot tell

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U-286 any comments	Hubertus	05/28/2010 03:00AM
Re: U-286 any comments	Douglas Hadfield	01/18/2011 06:23PM
Re: U-286 any comments	Fritz Ochs	04/28/2011 09:37PM
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Douglas Hadfield Wrote:
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> What the two sailors said is correct. To add to
> it, credit for sinking U286 was given also to HMS
> Loch Insh, which explains the reference to Squid,
> which Loch Insh had, but so far as I can remember
> colony class and captain class frigates like
> Anguilla and Cotton did not. On the same day Loch
> Insh alone is credited with sinking U307, and
> picked up the survivors, 14 of them according to
> uboat.net, which is mostly very accurate.
> 
> I can remember this well because it was the only
> uboat I saw on the surface in 14 months as Radar
> Officer with B2 Escort Group and B19 Support
> Group; in this period I had spent several days in
> these three frigates and about ten others. On this
> occasion I was in Loch Shin with the Senior
> Officer of the Group, which also was engaging
> U307. I heard our gun on the forecastle firing at
> something, but we could see nothing on the radar
> screen. I looked outside the radar cabin and saw
> the uboat only a few hundred yards away. It was so
> close that its radar echo just merged with the
> groundwave.
> Whether U286 or U307 was the last to be sunk I
> cannot tell