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Re: Commander Lost Overboard
Posted by: Dan Girard ()
Date: December 31, 2012 09:01PM

Hi Mark,

The boat was U-625, and the commander was Kapitänleutnant Hans Benker. The incident took place on 2 January 1944.

When the order to dive was given, one man got stuck in the control room hatch, blocking the conning tower so much with men of the bridge watch and gun crews that the order countermanding the dive could not be heard in the control room in time. When Benker realized that the dive was continuing, he and one man of the bridge watch who had stayed above to help him free the Naxos cable closed the conning tower hatch from above and were swept overboard before the order to blow finally reached the control room and the dive was stopped. When the boat surfaced, a search was made for the two men, but only the man of the bridge watch, Mech. Gefr. Wöpe, was rescued. (This account is based on U-625's KTB; the account given at Uboat.net's pages on Kplt. Benker and U-625 mistakenly states that both men drowned.)

Dan Girard

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Commander Lost Overboard Mark McShane 12/30/2012 11:45AM
Re: Commander Lost Overboard Dan Girard 12/31/2012 09:01PM
Re: Commander Lost Overboard Mark McShane 12/31/2012 09:10PM
Re: Commander Lost Overboard Dan Girard 01/02/2013 10:44PM
Re: Commander Lost Overboard Josephbremez 12/31/2012 10:47PM


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