UB-21 (Walther) carried out what appears to have been intended as a sabotage mission at Ness Point, Hayburn Wyke, North Yorkshire on July 19, 1917. The mission is sketched in PG61764. A two man party was landed from the boat. Their mission was apparently to blow up a railway line. The mission failed. Steuermann Gallus and Bootmsansmaat Sohlmann were captured by the British on July 29. Admira
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I see what you mean. Fields 60 and 61 look promising. Unfortunately I don't have any charts in my Spindler Band 5
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My copy of the Spindler chart is not particularly clear but I think it the U-boat responsible for laying this field was UC-50. The chart is in Band 4, Stizze 3 and it portrays minefield 41 laid to the East of the Farne Islands. As far as I can tell it is the nearest field to the wreck position of G7. I do not have the precise location as the divers will not reveal it but I suspect it is close
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I am sure many of you will be aware that the wreck of HMS/M G7 was discovered some distance off the Farne Islands in an area known to divers as the Farnes Deep but to historians as the Longstone-Lista Light route. The wreck has substantial damage to her stern. Could be the result of a collision could also be the result of triggering a mine. There were no British coastal minefields this fa
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Very many thanks for that
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It is with sadness that I am writing to let you know that Ron Young crossed the Bar on July 14. Because of his experience as a diver, Ron was uniquely placed to combine his knowledge of wreck sites with primary source material in British and continental archives. Ron wrote the successful series 'Shipwrecks of the East Coast' which ran to several editions. He later joined forces with
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UC-32 is credited with laying the mines which sank Burnhope in Hartlepool on 14 December 1916. My copy of Spindler indicates that UC-32 did indeed mine Hartlepool Bay but not until January 30 1917 . In that case am I correct in assuming that the field laid on December 14 claimed Burnhope ? Should be perhaps, look for some other cause ?
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Does anyone have the KTB of this boat. I am particularly interested in the sinking of SS Pollux. I believe U-45 sent one torpedo into her stern and sank her. I would like to know if there is any record of what was said between the IWO and the Norwegian survivors in the lifeboats. Just trying to balance matters out.
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What did Spiess do at Machrahanish exactly. Sorry but I don't know this story. I am aware that U-boat crews landed at St Kilda (and sometimes shot up the local radio station). According to a sign in Orkney Museum a U-boat grounded in late 1918 and the locals (allegedly) merely stood by and watched as the boat merely slid off the rocks at high water
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If you need any help drop me a line. The files I cited are the main ones but there are others. Do you have access to Spindler's 'Handelskrieg' ? or the pg files for U-boat KTBs ?
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UC 70 was almost certainly destroyed by mining rather than a bomb blast UB 115 was damaged by a mine. The slick was spotted by a TM convoy airship which directed surface vessels to destroy her.
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There are no shortcuts. You would do well to look at Rossler/Groener for starters There are two or three ADM files which could prove useful. I assume you have already trawled through HW 7/3, ADM 137/3917 and ADM 137/4147 ?
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I just bought the Kindle edition. I am impressed and am devouring the book.
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many thanks
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sounds interesting. Where may copies be obtained ?
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I doubt whether this claimed U-boat sinking stands up to any serious analysis. The number of the alleged U-boat destroyed might be a helpful start.
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I wonder if anyone out there can help. I want to find the report of Cdr Damant concerning the dives his team made on UB 116 sunk in the controlled minefield at Scapa Flow in October 1918. A report exists, I have seen it previously but I have lost the ADM reference for the files at Kew. Grant leans on Damants reports for his U boat Intelligence Book and there are extracts from Damants reports i
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Very many thanks KPP
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I should add that the Auxiliary patrol sighted what it took to be a U-boat in Balta Sound on the afternoon of 12 March. I would have thought that UC 76 had cleared the area of Minelay 36b by this time. I was hoping for some sort of confirmation from the KTB Thanks for any light you can shed on this matter.
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I am after details of prevailing weather conditions. Or any comments with regard to the weather. I have already digested the information given by Spindler in Band 4. The wreck of E49 was found with the periscope fully extended. As you will know, the wreck is within a narrow channel. It would be unconventional for a British boat to dive and make a trim dive within such a place. The perisc
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Does anyone have the KTB for UC 76 for 10.7.17 for her minelay off Baltasound in the Shetlands ?
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I have been studying Spindler's 'Handelskrieg'. Judging from the charts in Band 2 (summer 1915) most U-boats made the North Sea crossing on a course that would take them North of Lerwick. As far as I can see only one boat made the Fair Isle passage during this time. My question is, in general was this directed by control or was the individual commander able to use his own discre
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Presumably you mean British coastal minefields ? Try RN Library at Portsmouth and ask for Leith Lockhart, Cutting IX. Good luck. Ps I don't believe that Rohilla struck a mine as the Yorkshire minefield existed only on paper until September 1917 and I can't find any evidence of submarine minelaying off the NE coast in October 1914.
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I can only suggest that you examine the Auxiliary Patrol diaries for the section you are most interested in. If you tell me the coastal sector I can give you the Kew reference for the diary concerned, assuming it has survived and equally assuming auxiliary patrol involvement.
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I have been researching this attack too. Given its historic significance don't you think it is a shame that there is no memorial other than the two graves. I am assuming you have located them...?
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Wonderful. Thanks to all concerned.
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Question: Shouldn't the name of the Q-ship be CORRIGAN Head? Answer: Not according to the man who commanded it ! 'Amazing Adventure'/E-Keble-Chatterton/biography of Herbert
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This website states that Steinbrinck did not assume command of UC 65 until November 1916 so you see my grounds for scepticism.
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Amazing Adventure, the biography of Godfrey Herbert RN, then in command of the Q-ship Carradale Head, describes a duel with UC 65 (Otto Steinbrinck) on the above date. Being cautious over biographies, can anyone confirm whether the Q-ship did in fact surprise but not sink UC 65 please.
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Thanks for that. UC 75 evidently penetrated further than the Salzwedel Flotille did in the Second World War.
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