ADM 53/63190, ADM 137/3898, T1022, Roll 74, PG61969 Final Patrol: (6) For his next patrol, von Lilienstern was instructed to mine the Kirkwall and Lerwick roads. Both were known to be heavily guarded and all concerned recognised the perilous nature of the mission. UC 55 left Helgoland on 25 September 1917. and von Lilienstern had instructions to lay mines at the entrance to Shetla
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This may be too late for your researches given the date of your posts on this subject but the National Archive at Kew holds file ADM 137/3897 which contains comprehensive information, apparently freely given by Steuermann Bernhard Haack who had served on UC-31 prior to his capture. The file details his career from merchant navy to U-76, UB-35 and UC-32 to UC-31. He seems to have been a remarkab
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The Leith Lockhart Mining History describes a controlled minefield laid at Cromarty during World War One.
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A lot would depend on the nature of the encounter eg whether the destroyer was engaged as a convoy escort - convoys were introduced on the East coast in the Spring of 1917 or whether the vessel was working in say an anti submarine patrol.
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I have the unadorned Auxiliary Patrol report on the Greenisland affair lifted from the Larne Patrol Diary. It records 'possibly slightly damaged. In all other senses the submarine is not thought to have sustained damage' I can send you this material if you like. The Larne Diary is simply the Auxiliary Patrol Diary for this sector XVIII which I guess you may already be familiar with in
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I have the following notes regarding this loss. A passage report was duly made at 04:30 on the morning of 30 April, ninety-five miles West of Lindesnes in Norway. According to British W/T intercepts logged in ADM 137/3917, UB 119 was reported to be in the following positions: 30.4.18 01:00 57° 38 N 04° 05E (Spindler gives the time as 04:00) 1.5.18 57° 15 N 0° 08W 2.5.18 0
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In Arnold Fischdick's account of his time on U 90 (Kplt. Walter Remy) he describes how on a return journey through the Norweg, U 90 took a detour towards North Rona. Lt z.S. Weidemann and Obermaat Ahrend took a dinghy over to North Rona to see if any supplies could be scrounged. Fischdick relates how the landing party returned with bird eggs and a lamb but the patrol report of U 90 provi
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These tales are told the length and breadth of Britain. Events around the Scottish Island of St Kilda have been verified but the rest are just yarns.
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KTBs are also held at the National Museum of the Royal Navy Library in Portsmouth UK. library@nmrn.org.uk as are minefield records and much else.
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