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Re: Lough Foyle (Lisahally), Northern Ireland on 14 May, 1945
Posted by: Derek Waller ()
Date: November 21, 2010 12:30PM

Dear Nobby,

Re the a/m topic, I am aware that there have been some "private" messages
concerning the answer to your query back in August, but I thought that it might be sensible to set the public record straight.

The fact is that there were no original U-Boat surrenders in Lough Foyle/Lisahally.

Nor were there any original U-Boat surrenders in Loch Alsh.

All 8 of the U-Boats which were said to have "surrendered" on 14 May 1945, had actually surrendered previously in Loch Eriboll. They were then taken to Lough Foyle, via Loch Alsh.

The surrender ceremony at Lisahally was a "staged" PR event so that (quite rightly) Admiral Horton could be "seen taking the surrender" of a symbolic number of U-Boats as the culmination of The Battle of the Atlantic.

Details of the surrender of the 8 U-Boats involved can be read in David Hird's excellent book "The Grey Wolves of Eriboll", and source data can be found in Captain M J Evans' post-Operation Pledge Report 3054/T.40 dated 9 June 1945, a copy of which is held in the Roskill Archive in Churchill College, Cambridge.

I suspect you know all of this already, but it might help others.

Yours aye

Derek

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Lough Foyle (Lisahally), Northern Ireland on 14 May, 1945 barinasboy 08/19/2010 10:00AM
Re: Lough Foyle (Lisahally), Northern Ireland on 14 May, 1945 Mark McShane 08/22/2010 03:15PM
Re: Lough Foyle (Lisahally), Northern Ireland on 14 May, 1945 barinasboy 08/22/2010 04:20PM
Re: Lough Foyle (Lisahally), Northern Ireland on 14 May, 1945 Denis Martin FTU 08/23/2010 06:20PM
Re: Lough Foyle (Lisahally), Northern Ireland on 14 May, 1945 James 06/09/2011 07:22PM
Re: Lough Foyle (Lisahally), Northern Ireland on 14 May, 1945 Derek Waller 11/21/2010 12:30PM
Re: Lough Foyle (Lisahally), Northern Ireland on 14 May, 1945 barinasboy 11/21/2010 12:48PM
Re: Lough Foyle (Lisahally), Northern Ireland on 14 May, 1945 Derek Waller 11/21/2010 02:19PM


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