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U-91 & ATTACK ON ENGLISH SOUTH COAST (?)
Posted by:
Cape Crusader
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Date: March 01, 2011 03:50PM
"Aspects of Alfriston" by Patricia Berry and Peter Longstaff-Tyrrell (ISBN 1857703251), a small local history publication, contains a reference to an attack by U-boat on the English south coast :-
"In the afternoon of 31st August 1940 the structure (i.e. Exceat Bridge) was fired upon twice by U-91 as a token target during a recce of the Sussex coast".
Exceat Bridge carries the A.259 coastal road between Hastings and Brighton over the Cuckmere River at Cuckmere Haven, approximately one mile upstream from the English Channel and ten miles west of Eastbourne.
Now U-91 was laid down in November 1940 and not commissioned until January 1942, so it cannot have been the boat responsible.
Can anyone offer a candidate for the U-boat that WAS responsible? Was the attack by a U-boat? Or any other Kriegsmarine vessel?
All help and suggestions gratefully received.
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"In the afternoon of 31st August 1940 the structure (i.e. Exceat Bridge) was fired upon twice by U-91 as a token target during a recce of the Sussex coast".
Exceat Bridge carries the A.259 coastal road between Hastings and Brighton over the Cuckmere River at Cuckmere Haven, approximately one mile upstream from the English Channel and ten miles west of Eastbourne.
Now U-91 was laid down in November 1940 and not commissioned until January 1942, so it cannot have been the boat responsible.
Can anyone offer a candidate for the U-boat that WAS responsible? Was the attack by a U-boat? Or any other Kriegsmarine vessel?
All help and suggestions gratefully received.
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U-91 & ATTACK ON ENGLISH SOUTH COAST (?)
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