Chris and Oliver, thank you so much for all this information! Chris, your book looks very interesting. Von Voigt's ilness is a really good example of how the flu epidemic of 1918 interfered with naval and military operations. Just two more questions, if you please: 1) Do you know why it proved impossible to repair the defects of U 47 in such a long time? The boat was out of action
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Hi. I have a small question. U-35 is obviously the most successful U-boat of all time. But she sank no more ships after March 1918, after von Arnauld de la Perière left her. I wonder why that was so. Did she go out on any more patrols? Was she simply too worn out for further active service? I know that U-boats stationed in Austro-Hungarian bases suffered from severe logistical problems by 1918, w
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Thank you Simon, for clearing that up. I suspected that they were never finished, but wasn't sure.
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Hi. I have a question regarding U-137 and U-138. Some sources claim these two boats were incomplete at the end of the war, but this site says they were commissioned on 8 January 1918 and 26 March 1918, respectively. There's no other information(commanders, flotillas, etc). What is the truth about these boats?
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Very unlikely. Lusitania was much larger than U-20. She wouldn't even suffer much damage. Ships ramming submarines very rarely sank themselves.
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Some of the Adriatic boats were under routine maintenance or repair at the time and so were unable to make the dangerous voyage. They had to be scuttled. I wasn't aware of railway conditions in Austria-Hungary during that time. Thanks for informing me.
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You're right, a number of U-boats did leave Austro-Hungarian bases and headed for Germany via Gibraltar during the last days of the war. According to "Mediterranean Submarines" by Michael Wilson and Paul Kemp, between 29 and 31 October 1918 thirteen U-boats left the Adriatic for Germany: U 35, U 38, U 63, UB 49, UB 50, UB 51, UB 105, UB 128, UC 20, UC 22, UC 27, UC 52 and UC 67.
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I think you mean U 47, as U 43 never served in the Mediterranean and survived the war. This brings to mind two questions: 1- What sort of engine trouble did U 47 suffer from that it proved impossible to fix in all that time? 2- Why assign commanders to a U-boat that was unlikely to become operational again?
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Hi Chris, According to information on this very site, this torpedo boat was the last ship to be hit by a U-boat:
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Thank you very much!
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Hi. On 4 September 1917, a U-boat shelled Scarborough, causing some light damage and casualties. Can anyone tell me which U-boat made this attack?
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Experts here can correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know the only U-boat sunk by US destroyers was U 58, and most of her crew survived. I think the account in Castles Of Steel is a mistaken one; those destroyers probably heard some other noise.
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That's great! Thank you very much.
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Hi. I have a question again! According to James Goldrick's book, "Before Jutland", sometime in 1914(probably September or October) in the North Sea U 19 hit the British torpedoboat TB-33 with a torpedo, which failed to explode. Also, U 22 unsuccessfully attacked the destroyer HMS Vigilant. If all this is correct, can you tell me when and where exactly these two attacks took plac
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If UC 66 was lost on 27 May 1917, then who sank the Italian steamer Portofino on 3 June? Was it a mine laid by UC 66?
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Glad to be of help! And thank you for clearing it up.
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Hi.I have a question about the British destroyer HMS Matchless. In Uboat.net it's stated that she was mined on 9 November 1916 off Southwold. And Naval-history.net claims that she was mined on 13 November 1915, seemingly in the same general area. My question is: Was Matchless mined twice, with the two events almost exactly one year apart? Or could one of the dates be in error? With r
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Thank you. It's a small incident, but I had began to wonder if I imagined reading it. This clears it up.
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Thank you, Michael. Is there any hope of finding about the Walney Island incident I mentioned? With respect, Nom Anor
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Greetings. I have two questions about U-boats: First, I had read somewhere(unfortunately I can’t remember where, but I took a note) that Gibraltar-based British torpedoboat TB-95 made an unsuccessful attack on U 35 on 16 October 1917. But now I have come to suspect the truth of this: Did TB-95 really attack U 35 that day? Or did she encounter some other German submarine? Or, did she maybe atta
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Greetings, While perusing the monthly losses pages, I encountered some inconsistencies. Some figures in the monthly loss lists and individual ship pages don’t match up. For example; the steamer Harmatris is listed as 4863 tons in the March 1916 ship losses list( ). But when you visit the ship’s own page( ), it says 6387 tons. I’ve made a list of the ships in the databank with this kind of i
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Glad to be of help!
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This may sound like a strange question, but... Could these vessels be one and the same? Or are they really two separate ships? The reason I'm asking is, they're of the same tonnage and very little seems to be known about Kerkyra. I thought it could be a duplicate and wanted to be certain. Sorry if it was an unnecessary question!
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It's still more than what I had. Thanks!
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Is there any more information on Japigia and how she was sunk? The reason I'm asking is I'm doing some research about the surface forces of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
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Thanks for the clarification!
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Was this ship sunk, or merely damaged? It says sunk under the heading "Loss type"; but then says "Damaged by gunfire off the Gironde" under Position.
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The capture of König Albert by U 11 is mentioned in Michael Wilson & Paul Kemp's book "Mediterranean Submarines" as well. The Austrians let the ship go after a search in Cattaro, but they detained an unfortunate Czech deserter from the Austrian Army, who was hiding on the ship!
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Hi, I recently read in Gary Staff’s book “Battle On the Seven Seas” that on 18 August 1914, the German cruiser Strassburg sighted the submarines E 5 and E 7 in the southern North Sea. The cruiser opened fire and the boats dived. There were no hits. I wonder if this encounter could somehow be the starting point of the claim that E 5 was supposedly sunk by Strassburg? I realize the dates ar
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Oliver, Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. I appreciate it.
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