As some of you folk know I have been making extensive use of uboat.net archives in the last few weeks in preparing a general reader account of the uboat actions off South West Scotland in WW1. The final document is now available at; Thankyou to all here for help and encouragement and I'm pleased to have been able to provide a few details from my own researches to the records. Best
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As some of you know, I have been pillaging the excellent Uboat.net archives for the last month to find out information about merchant shipping losses to Uboat action in North Channel during WW1. The second fruit of this labour is available to read at; Please be aware, this is intended to be read (and hopefully appreciated) by a general audience, NOT the experts. Having said that, all and
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Following comments from, amongst others, Michael Lowrey, I have ammended this and the new version can be found at: dave
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I have taken the liberty of epublishing the first draft of a brief article on the above topic at; I would very much value any constructive comments via this post or PM, as you prefer. Many thanks
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No is the short answer. I intend to complete searching the uboat sinkings later in 1917 and 1918 off Wigtownshire and see what inspires then.
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Hello Clio! I hope I am not bumbling into your area of expertise? I started some searching around maritime losses off Wigtownshire in WW1 after reading about SS Main and SS Rio Verde sunk in Luce Bay and North Channel in late 1917 and early 1918 respectively. I was able to access a copy of the booklet "Galloway Shipwrecks" by Peter C Miller (ISBN 0-9519115-0-3) and became aware of
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Thankyou so much Clio. I make it that UC65 sank 10 ships in North Channel in a 72 hour period.
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Hi folks, I am new here but have been raiding your records over the last few days. I am wishing to find out more information over and above that already available @uboat.net on the 4 sinkings by UC65, Steinbrink, off the west coast of Wigtownshire, in the North Channel; namely Helen, Ivrig, Dora and WDPotts. Does anyone have an image of UC65 that I could have a copy of to use, with full atribut
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