Hi VikingG, This appears to be yet another myth. Where did you get your information? As to a book that covers this subject in detail see: Showell, Jak P. Mallmann. U-boats at War Landings on Hostile Shores. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing Ltd., 2000. ISBN: 1-55750-864-X. Copyright: Jak P. Mallmann Showell, 2000.
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Hi Peter, I think what you are seeing here is negativity caused by the way you approached your “research”. The questions you asked have been asked & answered over and over again here and as Barry points out, answering the same questions over and over becomes tiresome in time and in this case the questions are insulting to some. Had you done any homework at all you would have al
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Hi Shella, There are crew lists available at: . They are the most crew complete lists available but it is still a work in progress. You can search them by name or U-boat number. If you don’t find him in the crew lists you can try to e-mail Hubertus Weggelaar. You will find his e-mail address on that site.
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Hi Peter, As webmaster@U-35.com and I pointed out there are no German recollections of the activities you are interested in because they never happened. For what really did happen see: Showell, Jak P. Mallmann. U-boats at War Landings on Hostile Shores. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing Ltd., 2000. ISBN: 1-5575
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Hi Peter, The stories are bogus. Use the search engine on this forum. Also check out the Myth and Stories section at: .
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Hi Herb, Thanks so much! I really appreciate this. You got mail.
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Hi Schalke, Bauer was quite an accomplished U-boat commander and certainly hasn’t gotten the recognition he earned. I have been researching him and U-126 for several years now. On March 7, 1942 my dad was Third Engineer on the SS Cardonia when she was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by U-126 (Bauer). Dad survived but has since passed away. I am documenting his wartime experiences for my fa
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Hi Planton, Thanks for the tip. I'll try to contact them but I live in the U.S. and won't be able to visit in person.
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Hi Jukka, Thanks for the info. I don’t know if I have ever read anything published by that publisher so I have no way to compare them with Jak Showell’s work but I have always found Showell’s work to be excellent. I own more than a dozen of his books and several things edited by him and I have always found the photos excellent (many come from the U-boot Archiv) and the text to be a
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Hi Jukka, Do you know what language the book is in?
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Hi Mark, Thanks for the additional info. Rainer, thanks much for the Ritschel info too. That puts it all in perspective for me. As to Ritschel’s work, he is simply publishing (in German only) an abbreviated version of all of the U-boat KTBs. He has left out many of the routine entries in the KTBs and converted some of them to a “shorthand” form. For example he sometimes replaces an
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Hi Mark, Sorry, I have no info on the origin/destination of the Köln for that voyage. My point in mentioning when the Köln was sunk was only that the Köln was still in operation (and not already sunk) during the sinking of the Cheyenne in September 1939 making her likely the ship mentioned by Heinicke. Does the Admiralty interview also mention that Heinicke also offered to tow the lif
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Hi Mark, There was indeed a German merchant ship named Köln. She was a 7,881 GRT freighter built by Schiffbau & Maschinefabrik Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack, Germany and completed in 1922. On June 26, 1940 while carrying a cargo of 9,000 tons of iron oar to Hamburg she went aground at Argosgrund south of Gefle. The next day she broke in two and sank. Source: Jordan, Roger. The Worldâ€
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Hi Grant, Yes there were two ships named Oneida and the one sunk by U-166 is not the one this thread is about. It was sunk in 1942 & the one this thread is about was sunk in 1943. LLoyds has them both listed.
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Hi Davenz, Deutsches U-Boot Museum Lange Strasse 1 D-27478 Cuxhaven — Altenbruch Germany Phone: 011-49-4722-912-395 Call between 9-12 German time on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. They don't have a web site or e-mail.
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Hi Davenz, Yes - Horst Bredow a former a former U-boat officer and founder of the Archiv speaks English quite well. Additionally the well known author Jak Showell Spends part of the year there helping with the English language inquiries. Don't forget to send a donation (in euros if possible) with your inquiry. They are a charity & they don't receive any government funds a
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Hi Davenz, According to Högel one of the emblems U-666 displayed was a shield with the words “U-Satan” above a drawing of a conning tower with a falling angle holding a sword below it. The other emblem was just the falling angle holding a sword.
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Hi Jim, Gibbs was originally on the Scottsburg when she was sunk. He was rescued by the Kahuku and shortly after U-126 sank the Kahuku & fished Gibbs out of the water. He stayed aboard U-126 for 4 days & then Bauer stopped the neutral and set Gibbs free.
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Hi Jim, Gibbs was on the Scottsburg when first torpedoed. He was rescued by the Kahuku which was then sunk by U-126(Bauer).
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Hi Jim, See the article at: //www.uboat.net/articles/index.html?article=55. It list several specific examples after the Laconia incident.
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Hi All, The detonators in depth charges were pressure activated as opposed to timed. For the first few years of the war ASDIC (sonar) could only tell the bearing & approximate distance to a target but not its depth. The depth charge settings were simply a guess and some charges were set deep, some in the middle & some shallow in order to have the best chance of actually coming clos
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Hi Sam, According to the member’s area here at uboat.net all ships sunk by U-667 (total 10,000 tons) were sunk by Karl-Heinz Lange not Heinrich-Andreas Schroeteler. In the last days of the war Heinrich Schroeteler in U-1023 damaged a British tanker of 7,345 tons and on the evening of 7 (!) May 1945 sank the Norwegian minesweeper NYMS 382 (335 tons). Three days later Schroeteler surrendere
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Hey Crinos, Nothing like that was ever issued to anyone on a U-boat during WWII. The chances are about 1,000 to 1 that it is a fake – especially if it came from Eastern Europe. ebay is full of stuff like this and the forums here have gotten dozens of posts like yours over the years. Thousands of fake “U-boat” lighters, compasses, watches and cups etc. are floating around out there. A
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Hi Richard, There were a number of factors that determined the length of time a U-boat could operate including various consumables (fuel, lubricating oil, drinking / cooking water, water for the batteries, food and ammunition, especially torpedoes to name some of them), combat damage, equipment failure and medical problems etc. It depended on the type of the mission and there were a lot of ex
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Hi Richard, They simply supplied enough food and other necessities for the planned length of the mission before they departed. If the mission was planned for longer than the amount of supplies that would fit in the boat they arranged for resupply at sea.
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Hi John, No idea though I doubt they had a target in Scotland. I read someplace that the plane was damaged & needed to get rid of its bomb load but I don't remember where I read that and there is no guarantee that it was true.
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Hi Scott, Probably just the fog of war. However the fact that no U-boat was ever credited with sinking her doesn’t necessarily mean that she wasn’t sunk by one. According to Moore she was sunk about 70 miles northeast of Cape Charles Virginia (37-24 North/72-20 West) on May 4, 1943. At that time of the war there was probably one or more U-boats in the area but even if they did see one
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Hi Scott, There is no record of her being torpedoed and no U-boat was ever credited with her sinking. According to all the records I can find (including LLoyd' of London) she sprang a leak and sank in bad weather. What is your source for the torpedoing?
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Hi John, No idea really but I presume the Brits caught on to how those mines worked & came up with a more effective technique and better equipment for sweeping them. The whole U-boat War was about move and counter move. Both sides came up with new technology that had to be countered by the other side. In the end Germany was simply overwhelmed by the combined resources of the allies.
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Hi John, I don’t know if this allowed the mine that sank the Counsellor to go undetected all that time but the U-boat torpedo tube laid TMB & TMC mines had magnetic / acoustic detonators, not contact detonators. They didn’t float like contact mines so conventional sweeping techniques didn’t work for them. They were laid on the ocean floor in shallow water and they had two delay mec
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