Jo I can supply you the names of the crewmen taken prisoner, but I wouldn't know how to find out if any are still alive, or where their relatives lived now Cheers Ron
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Hi Roy These are what I have found: C. F. GROVE was a 330-ton steel-hulled steam powered Lighthouse Tender that measured: 152.4 x 25.0. Helsingør Jernskibsvft. & Maskinbyg., Helsingør completed her as Yard No.27 in October 1890 for Marineministeriet - Lighthouse Service, Germany. She was powered by a 3-cyl triple expansion steam engine that gave 10.5-knots In 1935 renamed METINDA by Me
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Hi Roy Is it the ships they operated on or the ones they salvaged you need? In 1947 the Admiralty sold them TOPMAST No. 7, (ex METINDA, ex C.F.GROVE) Risdon Beazley, Ltd. (R. A. Beazley), Southampton Broken up at Boom 1949 by Chant. Nav. L. & G. Engelen, work began 17.3.49 I can go through all my files over a few days Cheers Ron
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Hi Jim Not a very good idea to put your E-mail address on here or any other website, because you will get flooded with spam; you should have sent Michael a private message to be safe Cheers Ron
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Hello Jenny Here are some more examples: At position 54° 23’N 00° 24’W off Scarborough and very soon after, the crew of a Royal Navy motor-launch spotted the U-boat and from that moment on, an ad-hoc little band of RN trawlers and motor-launches, reinforced by HM Yacht VANESSA II, hunted her relentlessly. With heavy seas running that evening, UB 107 surfaced in full view of HM Trawler C
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The DUNELM (Official No.123950) was a steel-hulled 2,319-ton steam cargo ship that was completed as Yard No.246 in October 1907 by Sunderland SB. Co., Ltd., Sunderland; she was launched on 25 September 1907 for Dunelm, Ltd. (R. O. & A.B. Mackay), Sunderland (Hamilton, Ont.). She measured: 250.0 x 43.2 and her single steel screw was powered by an aft positioned 3-cylinder triple expansion stea
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Hi Ed Michael is an expert and studies WWI U-boats and their activities. There was very little action from U-bpats during 1915 and there were, as he says, no boats in the Atlantic at that time. The ship was just listed as "missing since passing Cape Race, 17 October 1915, while voyaging from Sydney, C.B., (16.10.15), to Manchester with steel products". There are no German records of
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Hi Jenny A bounty was placed on the sinking of enemy submarines, not sure about surface war ships, but the info comes from the Nat Archives at Kew (ADM) and the American NARA files. Cheers Ron
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Hi Jenny It was common practice, even for merchant ship crew Cheers Ron
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Good bit of research Daniel Would have been a crying shame to have missed that out. However I have searched my files three times and still cannot find another crew loss, I wonder if he could have been an RAF or Army gunner?? Cheers Ron
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Hi Jim Just some details about the ship: The BRAY HEAD was a steel-hulled 3,150-ton steam schooner-rigged cargo ship that was completed by C. S. Swan & Hunter at Wallsend-on-Tyne, Newcastle as Yard No.187 in March 1894; she was launched as the INDRALEMA (Official No.102133) on 23 December 1893 for Indralema S.S. Co., Ltd., Liverpool, where she was registered, with T. B. Royden the manag
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Hi Jim No I don't have any particular interest in the Bray Head; it's just that I write books about shipwrecks and enjoy researching them. My info on the crew comes from "The Cross of Sacrifice Volumes IV & V" and CWGC. According to Dictionary of Disasters at Sea by Hocking, the Bray Head was intercepted by the U-boat 375 miles NW by W of Fastnet on 14 March 1917 and it
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Hi Jim Here is the list, but I don't know why the master is down as the 15th Also there was only one RNVR person not two, according to my records. KING, Percy G, Able Seaman, RNVR, Sussex 5/116, Bray Head, steamship, 14 March 1917, submarine action, ship lost ATKINSON, James Fireman & Trimmer MM SS Bray Head (Belfast) drowned 14.3.17 CAMERON, James Fireman & Trimmer MM SS Bray
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Hello Jim I can give you most ,if not all of the crew names that were lost and details of the ship etc? Cheers Ron
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Hi Neil No they are not ONLINE, but you can purchase them from World Ship Society, which has a website and they cost about £7 Stirling for each year Cheers Ron
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Hi Neil Starke/Schell registers, which are taken from Lloyd's; there were no casualties either. Lots of ships were captured and scuttled rather than waste a torpedo Cheers Ron
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And as Yves says, Harald Bendert's book Die UC-BOOTE der Kaiserlichen Marine 1914-1918. On the last page are three diagrams of the UCIII boat Cheers Ron
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Hi Gerry That is some undertaking and costly to say the least You can find quite a lot of that kind of info in Eberhard Rossler's book THE U-BOAT - ISBN 0-304-36120-8 Cheers Ron
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The ship is registered to a shipping company and it is usually run by others Scuttling was usually done by sailors placing grenades (explosive chages) below the deck Cheers Ron
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The 1,024-ton cargo vessel TIZONA was completed as Yard No.200 by A. Vuijk, Capelle a/d Ijssel in September 1901 and launched as the TEMPLE (Official No.114749) for Temple Steam Shipping Co., Ltd., London with Temple, Thomson & Clark the managers. She had dimensions of 216.0 x 32.0 In 1904 she was registered to Empreza de Nav. Norte e Sul, Rio de Janeiro In 1905 she was registered to Tem
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Hi Neil Don't know how that happened, but your Grandfather was RN, not (RFR Cheers Ron
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Hi Neil Here are the names: GREENWOOD, Edwin, Able Seaman, RNVR, Mersey Z 2781, Eveleen, steamship, 6 May 1918, untraced KEEBLE, Robert, Leading Seaman, RNVR, London Z 1911, Eveleen, steamship, 6 May 1918, untraced SUTCLIFFE, Arthur J, Able Seaman (RFR B 3176), 175777 (Ch), Eveleen, steamship, 6 May 1918, untraced ADAMSON, Andrew Elliott Fireman MM BLAIR, I. Greaser MMR 9476 HM COLLINS,
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Hello Neil The name of the ship etc is just as Michael says. What was your Grandfathers name? There were 12 crew on board and three RNR personnel, probably DAMS gunners. I have all the names if you would like them ? Cheers Ron
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HI Guys Been told that the wreck lies in 66m, which is quite some depth for most divers Cheers Ron
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Carpathia was torpedoed and sunk by U 55, on 17 July 1918, 170 miles W by N of Bishop Rock, while voyaging from Liverpool to Boston, in ballast as far as I know Cheers Ron
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Hi Stuart You said I only remember seeing a couple of mast like structures at low tide. That was the derricks of the Greek steamer Dimitros that was wrecked there on 14 December 1953. She was dismantled to water-line then blown up, but the derricks showed for years after. Used to be a nice dive 20 years ago Cheers Ron
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Sorry about that Roffa, just found it?? Cheers Ron
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Hello Roffa I got your PM but you did not include your email address so I can send you the photo? Cheers Ron
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Hello Roffa Send me your e-mail address through a PM and I will send you a copy, or purchase Silent Warriors Volume One through Amazon.co.uk. I don't know how to put it in the forum Cheers Ron
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Yes Alemap is correct, the UB 110 was salvaged and taken to the Tyne where she was examined and then scrapped. I have a photo of the boat soon after she was raised, before she was taken to the Tyne Cheers Ron
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