Hi John U-107 fired four torpedoes at BUSHRANGER: the first from tube II at 31/17h45 and the second and third from the stern torpedo tubes at 01/00h15 & 00h16 missed. The fourth fired from a reloaded stern torpedo tube at 01/03h54 struck and sank the ship.
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Hi John U-106 fired four single torpedoes at EMPIRE WILDEBEESTE: the first fired at 06h39 missed, the second at 06h53 struck and stopped the vessel. The third launched at 07h11 also struck, but a fourth had to be fired at 0802 to sink the ship.
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I can't help you identifying the movie, but depending on the type the torpedoes fired by U-boats weighted between 1.5 and 1.9 tons and struck a target at the speed of 30 to 40 knots. This certainly developed enough force to leave a big dent on the thin side plates of merchant ships, causing leaks through cracks or even penetrate the hull if hitting in one of the softer spots. At least one sh
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Hi Adam On 31 August 1939 the Kriegsmarine had 57 U-boats in service: 2 type IA, 6 type IIA, 18 type IIB, 6 type IIC, 10 type VIIA, 8 type VIIB, 7 type IX 14 boats were in training or not at sea: 4 school boats were used for training: U-1, U-2, U-8, U-11 6 boats were still in training: U-42, U-43, U-49, U-51, U-60, U-61 4 boats were in port: U-3, U-4, U-10, U-25 43 boats were at sea:
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The damage to the wreck shows that the U-boat was probably crippled by hits at the extreme stern during the initial attacks and that the following attempts to break up the wreck by further depth charge attacks had failed because the forward part of the hull is largely intact.
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HMS ORIBI, HMS ONSLAUGHT, HMS BRISSENDEN and HMS SEYMOUR attacked a possible U-boat contact in the evening on 3 July 1944, after air bubbles and an oil slick surfaced only HMS BRISSENDEN remained behind and tried to raise debris from the wreck by further depth charge attacks on 4 July. She was relieved by HMS TALYBONT and HMS WENSLEYDALE, the latter continuing the attacks for two more days and ev
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Hi John U-105 chased ORFOR for 44 hours and missed her with 5 torpedoes before the sixth torpedo struck and sank the ship.
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Hi John U-103 fired its last three torpedoes at BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: the first missed, the second hit and the third was used to finish her off. I've updated our page about this ship accordingly.
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Hi John U-103 missed CLARE with a first torpedo at 0344hrs, before hitting her with a second at 0348hrs. It hit ALCOA CARRIER with one torpedo fired at 0416hrs, then shelled her and tried to finish her off with a coup de grâce that missed at 0625hrs. U-103 missed HENRY STANLEY with two single torpedoes at 2150 and 2221hrs, before a third hit at 2359hrs and a fourth was fired as coup de grâce a
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This was the Belgian motor trawler GEORGES-EDOUARD of 217 grt, built 1937 by Jos. Boel & Fils, Tamise for Pecheries â Vapeur SA (John Bauwens), Ostend. 5 men were lost in the accident.
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There were many ships sunk around Ireland in September 1940: So it will be difficult to say from which ship the survivor was without knowing further details like his nationality or where he was landed after being rescued by JÖKULL.
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Hi John I've checked and corrected the patrols of U-212. The deep dive test in April 1944 was wrongly marked as war patrol and the stages of its abortive D-Day patrol and its final patrol with the stopover in Brest were not chained yet.
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Hi John It often depends on the source of the data used by the different authors to compile the list of U-boat patrols. The movements were recorded in the BdU/FdU and Flotilla KTBs and it was easier to collect the data from these sources than to do this with the KTBs of all U-boats. However, it also made it difficult to distinguish the sailings between war patrols, aborted patrols, trials or t
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Hi John I've corrected the error.
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Hi John I assume you are asking about the escorts of OB-284? The 5th EG escorted this convoy until being detached to escort SC-21 and was definitely led by HMS VANOC. The latter convoy is listed on the page about this destroyer on naval-history but the first is missing, apparently because its list of escorted convoys is based on Hague's work and was missed due to the typo made in the orig
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Hi John It is a bit unclear if the two RCNVR men lost in HOLYSTONE were just passengers as mentioned by Lloyds or were actually part of the crew, even if only temporary for their passage to Canada. I found them both mentioned in the "Register of Deceased Seamen" although as "Supernumerary" and not as "Deck Hand" like the other DEMS gunners. However, this indicates
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It is true that U-129 operated off Tampico between 25 and 29 June 1942, but the air attack reported by the Mexican AT-6 took place on 5 July 1942. At that time U-129 had already left and was operating in the Yucatan Channel, where the U-boat was unsuccessfully attacked by aircraft of the US Navy on 5 July. In fact, no U-boats were anywhere near Tampico on 5 July 1942. I don't know what th
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Hi Darren The service records of sailors in the Merchant Navy during World War 2 are held by the National Archives at Kew. They have a guide on their website how to research these documents: At least these three documents seem to contain info about your ancestors: However, access to full details of seamen born less than 100 years ago are still restricted so please contact the help
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Hi John I've updated the patrol data of U-1057. The U-boat had in fact sailed earlier from Kiel to Horten and left for her first and only patrol on 21 April 1945, that was broken off due to a defective snorkel.
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Hi John As Thorsten wrote U-366 was lost during its second war patrol. I've corrected our patrol data accordingly.
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U-965 had left the U-boat group earlier due to a defective periscope and was heading for Narvik when a periscope was sighted in a distance of 600 meters in grid AF3754 at 21.45 hours on 17 May 1944. The U-boat immediately turned hard away and crash dived, observing one torpedo track to miss ahead after apparently hearing the launch of four torpedoes. It is not known yet which submarine carried
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Hi Lorenzo Several sources credit C/333 with sinking U-240, including "U-boat versus Aircraft" by Franks/Zimmerman, but there is no evidence to support this. The U-boat was en route from Bergen to Narvik together with U-668, U-742 and U-965. The group was ordered to carry out a sweep off western Norway en route, in an area where V/330 carried out its attack on 16 May 1944 and was ini
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Only the underlined positions in the BdU KTB are known positions, all others were plotted with the expected day's run on passage to or from the ordered patrol area. The abbreviation "Op" shows that the U-boat was thought to be in it operational area. In this late stage of the war the U-boats only seldom used the radio so their whereabouts are largely unknown if they were sunk wi
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Hi Lorenzo The BdU KTB reports the air attack on U-988 at 0050 on 17 June 1944 in BF2448.
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In my opinion K/59 never actually reached the area where U-383 had been attacked. Sunderland 228/V reported the attack position as 47.24N/12.10W, but I have some doubts about the accuracy of this position. The western border of the Musketry patrol area was 11.21W, so the aircraft was outside of the area where it was supposed to be? Furthermore U-383 reported being attacked in grid BF4453 which is
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Trying to interpret a transcribed document like the BdU KTB is difficult. Did U-383 report being attacked at 2130 or was the radio message received at 2130? To clear this up we would need to know what was written in the original BdU KTB or better the last radio messages sent by U-383.
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Hi Lorenzo The ORBs only contain shortened versions of the actions, a complete description of each air attack on U-boats were forwarded to the U-boat Assessment Committee for analysis. The full details for the attack of Liberator K/59 are not included in the assessment made by the Committee because it was in the category "No damage", but the position is given as 46.44N/11.26W. Thi
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Hi John MtrGfr Rolf Ebeling was killed during the air attack in the evening of 1 August and buried at sea.
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I did a quick analysis of the situation in the Bay of Biscay on 1/2 August 1943. There were four groups of two U-boats each passing outbound through the Musketry/Seaslug area: U-454 and U-706 had left La Pallice on 26 July U-129 and U-525 had left Lorient on 27 July U-106 and U-107 had left Lorient on 28 July U-218 and U-383 had left Brest on 29 July Allied aircraft operating in the area o
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Hi Guy It seems from your description that you are searching the website of our good friend Jerry Mason:
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