Sorry, here's the link to GWF: [1914-1918.invisionzone.com] Thanks for your thoughts :-) Oliver
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Good evening. For an ongoing project my fellow researcher Wolfgang Göthling is looking for some particular information on small British vessels. We need to know the port registration number and tonnage oft he following British fishing vessels: - Trawler KYOTO from Cardiff - October 1916 - Cutter REINDEER (52 BRT) - sunk 12.03.1917 - Cutter PITOCEE – March 1917 rescued the survivo
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Hi Joe, the reason I mentioned that Ciliax didn't carried out an war patrol was, that this could be the reason he's missing here on uboat.net as an commander. I know that this doesn't mean he's not qualified to be included into the CO-list :-) Oliver
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Well, Ciliax didn't carry out an patrol as an CO, UB 96 was taken over by Oblt.z.S. Walter Krastel only just 3 weeks after commissioning while UC 27 was commanded by Oblt.z.S. Otto Loycke in deputize to bring that boat back to Germany from the Mediterranean. I doubt that Ciliax ever made it to Pola (UC 27 doing maintenance since 06.09.1918) as I found an telegram from 16.11.1918 within BA
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Hi Susan, ahm, not quite correct ... U 52 survived the war see: it was UB 52 which was sunk by HM submarine H 4 see: There was even an other "52" operational see: But I can understand that this is not really easy to understand for non-Germans not deep into the Kaiser's U-Boats :-) Oliver
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Ah, forgot to add this: Time was around 4.15 p.m. on January 18th, 1917 and position was 47°37‘N-04°04‘W Oliver
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Hello Susan, well, the CAITHNESS was in action with the german submarine UC 18, that time commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Wilhelm Kiel. The boat was not hit and survived that patrol only to be sunk early on the next sortie. Details on UC 18 and it's commander you can find here on this site of course: I have no other details on UC 18's actions, but others here might have/wil
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Hello Stavros, to be true we all benefit from this thread as we within the usual German files can't find out more on these special operations. We still don't have the Sonderbericht from both boats but now we know what happened. And you, of course, will get some details as of the German U-Boats used. Just to be made it clear: "source microfilm" and "source war diary&
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Hello Stavros, Simon, Michael ... o.k., UB 50 it is, I have seen the original war diary years ago and I can provide the times given there: 08.25h getaucht, Bucht von Kalamata eingelaufen – Sonderbericht ! 18.35h aufgetaucht, Mission erfüllt, abgelaufen As Michael wrote, the war diary is more detailed as of the movements and sightings usually, but just for the other days. As this was an
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Hello "Stavros", oh, that's an very interesting story! Thank you for those details. Well, you will have no luck with the file from the German Bundesarchiv you've mentioned: RM 86/366. This is the war diary of UB 68, there are several war diaries available. But I already have checked every war diary from the German and Austrian U-Boats operating in the Mediterranean. A
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Hello Stavros, hm, well 1) it was the austro-hungarian U 41 which left Pola on 17.03.1918 at 17:30h, but passed the Straits of Otranto on the night 19. to 20.03.1918 (not in the morning) but than went on to operate East of Malta. The boat was in Position 37°08‘N-17°52‘E at 12:00h on 21.03.1918 for example. 2) it was the German UC 37 which was of Kalamata, but ... left Cattaro on 16.03
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I can confirm that position as all the ships from this small North going convoy were attacked by UB 105 at roughly that longitude: 38°55‘N-07°23‘E - damaged SAINT BARNABE 39°00‘N-07°23‘E - sank MADEIRA 39°00‘N-07°22‘E - missed SAINT BARNABE 38°57‘N-07°24‘E - sank SAINT BARNABE Oliver
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Hello James, the BIRCHGROVE in fact was the steamer which had an gunfight with U 66, it was after U 66 damaged steamer GURRE with an torpedo, but before U 66 finished off the GURRE with an other torpedo. Than LIVINGSTONE was captured. The HOLTHE, stopped in the evenig that same day, was an norwegian Barque of 1428 tons from Larvik, going to Danmark with her cargo of oilcake. This informa
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Hi "Nom Anor" this here extracts from the original war diaries of the U-Boats responsible, collected by my colleague Wolfgang Göthling: U 19: 20.09.1914 05.30 unter KL Constantin Kolbe von Emden gemeinsam mit "U 22" nach dem Firth of Forth ausgelaufen. Die Boote sollten den Vorstoß deutscher Schiffe für eine Minenlege-Operation zur englischen Ostküste absichern. 25.
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Hi Michael, well, ELSWICK MANOR, yes, also in my database. ALITAIR / ALTAIR ? What's about the british sailing vessel TWEED, 200 g.r.t., which anchored off Corton Roads on 13.11.1915 and went missing (on voyage Tyne - Dunkerque)? A possiblity I think. Oliver
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In my database I have MATCHLESS damaged by an mine laid by UC 7 just two days earlier, November 7th 1915. But that must be confirmed by checking the position of the incident and the location of UC 7's minefield of course. Oliver
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actually here at ebay: :-) Oliver
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Michael Lowrey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... > Oliver probably has already looked at this in > detail… > ehm, yes :-) 16.10.1917, 6:10 a.m. U 35 dived on an A/S group consisting of Tboat 95 and ML's 373, 393, 413, 387, 500 and 536, east of Malaga, 5 miles South-West of Torrox. Tboat 95 dropped one d/c without result. No
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Hi Felix, well, papers dealing with convoy H.C. 8 cover 1/4 of this file, so the pages should be not to numerous, but I can't tell you how many copies finally will be made for you :-) Oliver
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Hi Felix, I don't know how many pages, but usually files like that are between 6 to 12 centimetres thick - maybe 200 to 400 pages ?! Oliver
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I may add her commander's name: Chrisan K. Buguraev more exact location: between Swartklubben – Arholma and some details on the event (internet find): "Som" repeatedly left on patrol at dawn, returned to base at dusk. On May 10, 1916 at 4 o'clock in the morning "Som" which was patrolling in the area of Olandsgaf, and was lost in an underwater collision with th
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Hi, well Michael, just have a look for U 94. I have seen U 52's KTB, she was in St. Georges Channels 12. - 15.08.1918, two or three times having the LEINSTER in sight, but not down in the Bristol Channel. Have also seen UB 86 and UB 92 KTB, both using the route West of Ireland to reach their operational area. UB 92 being off Coningbeg LV just on the evening of 19.08., going to the Iris
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Well, o.k. seems to be difficult to determine what happened to what vessel, but it looks like: UC 27 sank LUIGINA, 22 g.r.t. (no question about that) UC 35 sank ESPERO, 135 g.r.t. (more likely than LUIGINA) s.v. LUIGINA of 34 g.r.t. went missing in November 1917 U 65 damaged s.v. ANGELO (Kpt. Carletti), 542 g.r.t., off Orosei, gunfire (1 shot hit out of 18 fired), vessel was saved, o
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Hm, that actually would be the best explanation, but on the other hand the gunners should have known it for sure :-)) Oliver
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One of my colleagues from "Marine-Nachrichtenblatt" told me that there is an wrong picture in the database of the "ships hit during WWI" section. It's the american ALGONQUIN, sunk by U 62: Please have a look :-) Oliver
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Hi Charles, well, look at the chart, that position is too close to Gibraltar to be of any comfort for enemy submarines - so you only have to count german U-Boats on passage from the Atlantic to Mediterranean or vice versa. A sinking of an submarine (any nation) is out of question, forget about that :-) My idea was, that this battery fired mistakenly against an allied submarine (french or
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Nice tale that is... :-) U 39 did the passage Atlantic - Mediterranean during the night 05./06.08.1917 and UB 48 did the passage during the night 23./24.08.1917, coming from Germany These are the only germen U-boats near Gibraltar/Algeciras in August 1917 and no one mentioned being fired at by coastal battery so... Oliver PS: Maybe they fired against an british or frensh sub from G
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Well, naval records at TNA (The National Archives) in Kew, London, say 224 dead, 240 survivors rescued by destroyer COLNE, 36 survivors reached shore with boats... Oliver
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Right, they were "San Domenico" and "Nuovo S. Giovanni" Oliver
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"San Domenico" actually was on 28.05.1917 in 34°28‘N-11°15‘E (UC 25) "Flora" (or "Flore" ?) should be the one sunk by UB 42 on 01.04.1917 in 36°28'N-26°58'E, 6 miles north of Thilos Island, but of 122 tons. 7 crew reached shore, voyage Symi - Mytilene, no cargo. Oliver
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