Gentlemen, I have been looking for over a year to get my hands on a copy of the cargo manifest of the merchant U-bout Bremen. It was lost on its maiden voyage to the United States in 1916. I have recently though that I could probably find the U-boat quicker than I could the manifest. I have a clue now, and this is where I need some help. In Dwight R. Messimer’s book, The Merchant U-Boat, Adven
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Gentlemen, I have accumulated a nice collection of English history books dealing with WW 1 u-boats (I can’t read German). I see that several of you reference a KTBs in you discussions. I am stumped, just what is KTB. By the way it is always referenced; I must be missing something good. Sincerely, Steven Zukosky
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Michael, I went to the web site you had listed. It looked great, but I do not speak or read German. I was wondering, if you do read German, could you please email the person that controls that web site and ask him if he has a cargo manifest for the Bremen. I would be eternally grateful. Steven Zukosky
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WOW!, I thank the both of you for the help! I thought it would take a while to track this down. Of the three, this item was the most important.I can live without a good picture. However, finding the cargo manifests would be fantastic. Steven Zukosky
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Dear Gentelmen, I am doing research for a book on the merchant U-boats of World War One. I have quite a bit of information on the U-Deutschland; however, the U-Bremen is another matter. I have a copy of Dwight Messimer’s book The Merchant U-Boat and it has a chapter devoted to the Bremen. This chapter has more information than all my other sources combined. Dozens of other books mention th
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Yves, Contact Thomas Weis at direktion@wlb-stuttgart.de he works at Württembergische Landesbibliothek it’s a German Library. This is a copy of a reply from him two weeks ago. I emailed him back to ask if he took Master Card tonight. I will let you know. It takes a week
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