hi, I voice my very strong doubts relating to that "story". After issue of the Nuremberg laws of 1935 discriminating the Jews, a "mixed-blood person" would not have been accepted into the navy in 1936. greetings, Urs
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hi Captain Marko Ramius of "Red October" is now on Eternal Patrol. R.i.P. Urs
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Ken Dunn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- That said I have never seen a photo of anyone on a U-boat using a sextant other than the normal one so I am guessing these are late war devices. Any idea when they were deployed on U-boats? hi Ken, I seem to recall that it is mentioned in Herbert Werner`s memoir in the chapter when he is still a midshipman (Fähnri
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Ken Dunn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > First as Mark points out, they were primarily > determined by celestial navigation at some point. However, celestial navigation wasn’t as simple as looking at a GPS device and writing down the numbers. It was a rather complicated procedure that involved taking sightings with a sextant then based on the time of day
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Ken Dunn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Most books touch on the living conditions but I > don't know of one that dwells on it written by > anyone that experienced it for himself over a long > time. There is also a lot of misinformation out > there. Let us know if you find a good one. See greetings, Urs
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hi, according to the "KTB Seekriegsleitung", January 1942, details are to be found in "Handakte KTB Deutsch /Italienische Flottenbesprechungen Garmisch" greetings, Urs
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jim stephenson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do you have records of E Boat activity? There were no E-boat operations (torpedo attack or minelaying) on the east coast north of the Humber estuary, hence: not attributable to E-boat activities greetings, Urs
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hi, several small IID boats operated in the Baltic in the first weeks of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, sinking thee M-type subs and losing U 144 greetings, Urs
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hi, shelling of Allied coastal towns Seaham, by UB 39 (Oblt.z.S. Fürbringer) Orleans, U 156 (Kptlt Feldt) greetings, Urs
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hi, ML 413 (1918) sinking greetings, Urs
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Mark Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Also anything on the Black Sea in German: greetings, Urs
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hi, the smallest ship to sink a submarine (not an u-boat) was the italian mini-sub CB-4, sinking soviet sub ShCh-203, see greetings, Urs
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hi, edmondt Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- .. after he (the boat) had received notification about the departure and their course. This message was based on betrayal from the port of Portuguese GOA (Mormugao). This involved the interned German freighters "Ehrenfels", "Braunfels" and "Drachenfels". This story (?) has been aroun
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hi, a very simple numbers' error; the text should read U 966, see greetings, Urs
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hi, Csaba Becze Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Norwegian Motor merchant Maloja was sunk by U-138 > on 8 November, 1942. Maloja belonged to ON-138 (dispersed) but was sunk by U 128 (Heyse) greetings, Urs
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hi, for a navigator, it's quite simple: no German u-boat of WW I made it into the South Atlantic, much less to the Cape of Good Hope or around it. greetings, Urs
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hi, from the same author : But that's in German and I think there's no translation greetings, Urs
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hi, and a 3rd : Gunnar Åselius, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Navy in the Baltic, 1921–41, Routledge (UK), 2005, ISBN 978-0-7146-5540-6. greetings, Urs
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hi, a second one : greetings, Urs
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hi, at least with partial info : greetings, Urs
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hi, Ken, Ken Dunn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Lott might have been senior to Franz in some way, perhaps higher in the Rangliste which I don’t have. Yes, he was, Lott was -11-, Franz was -42-, both promoted Lt.z.S. 1.10.30, but in 1932 Lott was already Oblt.z.S.(1.10.32), Franz still Lt.z.S. The previous statement that of 21 officers on November 21 t
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kg6gb@hotmail.com Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- hi > Q - Who was the Senior Officer December 1939? (Glattes?) IMO the Senior Officer would have been Werner Lott (CO U 35, Crew 26) with seniority over Glattes (Crew 27) greetings, Urs
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hi Oliver, greetings, Urs
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hi, see and scroll to 7.- 21.9.1944 greetings, Urs
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hi, Nearly true. Tanker BELCHEN (6367 grt) was one of seven tankers sent out as supply ships for RHEINÜBUNG. After BISMARCK's loss, BELCHEN provided fuel for submarines. While supplying U 93 on June 3, BELCHEN was discovered by RN cruisers AURORA and KENYA and sunk (or scuttled). After the sinking, U 93 rescued 49 survivors and brought them back to France. Arriving there J
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hi, Platon, you are right, with the small deviation that the KTB says that the minelaying was performed by S 36 and S 57 while the Kurzbericht names S 36 and S 60. My experience with other flotilla KTBs is that there are quite a number of spelling and boat number errors in the Kurzberichte compared with the KTB greetings, Urs
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Platon Alexiades Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > and the other by the 3rd Schnellbootsflottille > on 26.04.1943. hi, Platon, according to US Naval history the RICHARD OLNEY was damaged in pos. 37.25n 09-54e If that is correct, 3rd flotilla's minefields must be disregarded in that aspect. All those fields were laid south of 37-22n and we
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hi, oops, sorry, I completely overlooked that this is WW II. My fault. greetings, Urs
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hi, the RN wireless station on St. Kilda was shelled by German sub U 90 (CO Kptlt Walter Remy) om May 15, 1918 at noon. Thw W/T station was not hit directly, but the power supply hut got a hit and the station was out of action for several hours. Fresh sheep (mutton) meat was obtained by U 90's crew not on St. Kilda, but on North Rona. Source : in Marine-Nachrichtenblatt No. 4, IV/201
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jcrt Wrote: This may suggest trials in design capabilities, building times, and ... That's a convincing hypothesis, especially as all the boats named were the first of a "serial block" greetings, Urs
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