Ah, that explains it! Are there any plans to make mine-laying patrols (and/or any other new data searches) available in the Conning Tower section?
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Thank you Rainer. Very interesting stories about the losses of the Penolver and Delisle. Do you mind me asking how you were able to interrogate uboat.net's data to find mine-laying activity in that area? I have a Conning Tower account, but could not see how to search for u-boat mine-laying patrols.
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Thanks again for the information and suggestions Ken - much appreciated.
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Hi Ken, Both stories came from a fellow member on another forum. He was told by a friend of his - a lady who lived near the Bay Bulls harbour during the war. Are you saying you think neither story is probably true, or just the one about the U-boat men on the Portuguese fishing vessel? Thanks for the book recommendation. I have two other good books by Jak P. Mallmann Showell, so I'm
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I have two questions I hope someone can help me with: 1. I recently read about a mine that was accidentally discovered by fishermen in the harbour at Bay Bulls, Newfoundland. Is there a list/database of minelaying operations anywhere, either online or in a book, that could help me identify the U-boat that laid that mine? 2. Apparently, a U-boat intercepted a Portuguese fishing vessel on it
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Hi Michael Many thanks for your comprehensive reply. I hadn't seen your article and will certainly read it. Regards, VikingG
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Statistics in Clay Blair's book state that ONE U-boat (not named) was lost to aircraft in WW1. The web page below states that THREE U-boats were sunk by aircraft - UC-36, UB-20 and UB-32: "As the war progressed the RNAS began to use the seaplanes offensively against the U-Boats as well. On the 20th of May, 1917 the UC36 earned the dubious distinction of being the first subm
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Atlantik-Pirat! Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...I am writing to > them again tomorrow (they have written to me > already and appear happy to talk about its > future). That sounds encouraging!
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Hi Max - I've posted details of your petitions on the Ubisoft Silent Hunter 3 forum, from which you should already have a few more signatures - with hopefully more to come. (SH3 is a WW2 U-boat simulator, in case you weren't aware).
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I think perhaps you are right Dan. I just found this info on Wikipedia's page about the RCN: : "By the end of the Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945), the RCN was the primary navy in the northwest sector of the Atlantic Ocean and was responsible for the safe escort of innumerable convoys and the destruction of many U-boats." So it seems that the RCN would have had more exposu
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Sorry in the first sentence of my post I meant too say U-436 (the link is correct). The first link in the 3rd paragraph (career details) is wrong - it should be:
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Hi Hans I assume you've already seen the page here on uboat.net about U-456? In the uboat.net Members Area there is further information including details of enemy ships sunk, a map showing positions of each ship sunk, a crew list, wolf packs the boat was part of, departure and arrival dates/ports, maps of daily positions during each patrol, and more... Some of this information is a
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Hi Ken Do you know what the reasons were for the Kriegsmarine disguising their own naval supply ships as US ships? Was it simply to evade attack or was there also a propaganda motive? Regarding the photo I posted, is the U-boat in the middle-ground U-107? If so, I'm wondering what the vessel is in the foreground on which the sailors are stood.
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Max - please let us know as soon as you have your petition up and running. I know many people who I'm sure would gladly sign it.
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There's a page here on uboat.net: Dive into History -
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I'm glad that U-534 now has a new home, but it is a pity the boat will be cut into sections. When I first read about it, I naively assumed they would somehow re-assemble her when she reached the new site. I think there are two possible reasons why this decision has been made: 1. Because of the wreck's size, weight and fragile state, perhaps it's cheaper or safer to transport
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Interesting discussion. I have also read a book which mentions US ships refueling U-boats, but the comment is not substantiated. Here is a photo of U-107 being (supposedly!) refueled by the US tanker Prairie, 6 months before the US entered the war:
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Despite the overall poor performance of the T-5 acoustic homing torpedo after its introduction in the autumn of 1943, I've noticed from the reports on uboat.net that the Canadians suffered particularly badly from warship losses resulting from T-5 attacks. Specifically, from the time of the T-5's introduction to the end of WW2, every Canadian warship sunk by a U-boat was as a result of a
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