Very interesting! But wasn't UC 66 sunk earlier by aircraft?
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I should add that, for example, there was an Austro-Hungarian U 3, and also a German one. In addition to that, the Germans also had a UB 3 and a UC 3, UC being the designation given to coastal minelaying boats.
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Hi Alan, The U 3 that "saw no service" and surrendered in 1918 was the German one, not the Austro-Hungarian! The Austro-Hungarian U 3 was indeed sunk in August 1915. It can indeed get confusing with WWI U boat numbers.
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Thank you, Michael. It must be a hell of a job to be able to keep track of all these very small sailing vessels, many with similar names, and sometimes no name at all!
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Hello everyone, In the book "Austro-Hungarian Submarines in WWI" by Jiri Novak, it's stated on pages-60-61 that, in late 1915(no exact date is given) U 17 destroyed a sailing vessel with her 37 mm gun. The sailing vessel tried to escape by sailing into shallow coastal waters, but the submarine made good shooting. Furthermore, on page-94 it is mentioned that, after Hermann Ri
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On 16 August 1915, U 24 shelled Whitehaven and damaged a naphtha works there. The repairs took four days to complete. There were no casualties.
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Thank you for your replies, mates.
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Hi all. On September 29, 1915, the French destroyer Branlebas was mined and sunk off Nieuport(near the Middelkerkebank according to Wrecksite) while on patrol. Do we know who laid the minefield responsible for this sinking? I thought it might be a UC-boat laid mine.
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Thank you both, Michael & Simon. So U 33 was much luckier than her sister U 34...
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Continuing this line of thought, when did U 33 return from the Mediterranean? Did she join the exodus from the Adriatic in October 1918, or had she alreadly left for home earlier in 1918?
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Simon and Michael, thank you both for your replies. Much appreciated.
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It says here that the British sailing Q-ship Sarah Colebrooke was badly damaged in action with a U-boat on June 3, 1917. Do we have any idea which U-boat this might be? "SARAH COLEBROOKE, Q-ship, 3 June 1917, English Channel - aliases include Balham, Bolham, Meryl (sc - serving as Bolham, ex-Sarah Colebrooke, operating as Worrynot of Littlehampton), special service/submarine decoy/Q
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Hello again. Do we have any indication which U-boat might be responsible for the attack on the British steamer City of Cambridge(which would later be sunk in 1917) on March 28, 1915? Also, according to the Official history of the British Merchant Navy, the ship sustained some damage from gunfire in this attack:
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Glad to be of help!
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Hello. At least two sources give a July 1916 date for U 48's capture of British steamer Pendennis, instead of August. Navalhistory.net says it happened on 8 July here: James Goldrick's book "After Jutland" also says(p.56) she was captured in July, but does not give an exact date.
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Thanks for the additional information. So that makes six U-boat encounters for Penshurst(that resulted in damage or destruction for one side or the other). Damn, what a record!
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Thank you for your swift response, Michael. This is the same Penshurst that sank both UB 19 and UB 37, I presume?
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Hello, Admiral Scheer mentions in his memoirs a fight between U 84 and a Q-ship that took place on 22 February 1917. U 84 was badly damaged and lucky to survive. An escort ship also joined the action later, of a type Germans called "Foxglove". Is it known which Q-ship was this? And the escort? Scheer mentions a few hits registered on the latter. Is that true?
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Slight correction: On the 2 November 1917 raid, 8 fishing trawlers were sunk, not 10. My mistake. The auxiliary cruiser K/Kronprinz Wilhelm was sunk by the destroyers Parker, Rocket, Trenchant, Rigorous, Sorceress, Ready and Rob Roy. The Frankfurt(158 grt) you mention is one of the eight trawlers sunk. The other seven were: Frisia, Emmy, Makrele, Julius Wieting, Seadler, Sonne and Walter. T
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The 2 November 1917 raid was a relatively small affair, British destroyers ventured into the Kattegat and sank the small auxiliary cruiser/Q-ship K/Kronprinz Wilhelm and ten fishing trawlers. The 17 November 1917 raid turned into the 2. Battle Of the Heligoland Bight. The British forces that directly went into action were: First Cruiser Squadron: Light battlecruisers Courageous(flag) and G
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Less than a day before the Armistice went into effect!
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Many thanks again. This information is very useful!
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I'm bumping this thread a little in case someone has information in regard to the mines that sank(i.e, who laid them?) British destroyers HMS Maori(7May 1915) and HMS Ariel & Vehement(2 August 1918).
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It was actually a mine laid by U-156, not 153. Torpedoes do not necessarily sink ships faster; ships hit by mines sometimes sink as fast, and torpedoed ships sometimes sink very slowly, or not at all.
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Thanks again for this information! Much appreciated.
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Thank you, Urs! Do you know which German torpedo boats were involved? And how many mines did they lay there? Thanks again. Any information is welcome.
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Thank you, this is useful, but doesn't seem to answer my questions.
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Greetings all. I know this question is not directly U-boat related, as none of the destroyers I'm about to mention seem to be lost on mines laid by U-boats. But I didn't know where else to ask this, and I know people here have studied WWI minefields and mining incidents extensively, so someone might know. If this is too much off-topic, please lock. Anyway, I'm interested to k
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Poor U 47! Thanks Chris, this is very useful information.
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Thanks again, mates. Much appreciated. I just checked: It seems that the confusion with U 35's status during the last days of the war owes its origin to very old sources. R.H. Gibson and Maurice Prendergast in their book "The German Submarine War 1914-1918" state that in November 1918 U 35 arrived at Barcelona(page-332 and 377 in my copy). As for the maintenance standards of
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