Dear Werwolf, You will find the answer to your question in my article "Retain, Scrap or Sink" in the Autumn 2020 edition of the Canadian quarterly naval magazine "Argonauta". Hope it helps. Yours aye, Derek.
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Dear Jeff, Its just a thought, but why don't you start with the people in the Chicago MSI who look after U-505? Hope this helps. Yours aye, Derek.
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Dear Andrey, Herewith another thought. Have you seen Paterson's 2016 book "Steel and Ice? He has obviously accessed a number of prime sources in NARA, but he has carefully concealed exactly which ones and, more importantly, he has omitted to show the links which would enable others to find them. Clearly there is a prime-source story to be told about the Arctic U-Boats, and I
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Dear Andrey, Thanks - and I take your point. However that wasn't what you asked in your original post, viz: "If any book about U-Boat war in Arctic written on the basis of the primary sources exist?" And it was that query to which I was trying to provide helpful answers. Yours aye, Derek.
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Dear Andrey, Further to my earlier reply, 3 other books based on prime source info which I think would help you are: Clay Blair's "Hitler's U-Boat War". Rohwer's "Chronology of the War at Sea". and "The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence - U-Boat Situations and Trends". You should be able to find a lot of good and soundl
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Dear Andrey, I suggest that you start with Roskill's "The War at Sea". By definition all his information is based on prime-source info. After that you could look at the Roskill Papers which are lodged in Churchill College, Cambridge which holds all the original manuscripts for his magnus opus. That will not of course lead you to any specific TNA files, but it should be
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Dear Rick, I have the answer if you are still interested. However your silence suggests that perhaps you are not. Yours aye, Derek.
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Dear Rob, If you will send me your e-mail address I send you the contact details of a man who is most likely to know - he is in Canada too boot. Yours aye, Derek.
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It is definite. No U-Boats either surrendered or were captured in Iceland at the end of the war. However, if the story is true, then it could perhaps relate to the capture of U-570 in August 1941. For the latest version of that story, please see the World Ship Society's quarterly magazine "Warships", Edition No. 188 (Aug 2017). Yours aye, Derek.
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Dear John, If you look carefully, you will find the answer to your question in the Admiralty War Diary for May and June 1945 (TNA Kew files ADM 199/2317,2318,etc) Alternatively, I suggest that join The World Ship Society, where you will also find all the information that you are looking for in the back numbers of their excellent quarterly journal "Warships". Yours aye, Derek
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All those who are interested in the surrender of the U-Boats following the German capitulation in May 1945 will wish to know that an updated and expanded version of David Hird's (Cape Crusader) excellent little book "The Grey Wolves of Eriboll" has just been published. It deserves a careful read as it does not just tell the story of the 33 U-Boats which were processed in Loch Er
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Dear Keith, There were 4 U-Boats in the Greenock area at various times in the summer and autumn of 1945, albeit that they were not "stored" there. They were the Type VIICs U-1105 and U-1171, the Type XXI U-2502 and the Type XXIII U-2326. They were all being held by the Royal Navy pending Allied decisions about their future, but before those decisions were taken Admiral (Submari
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Dear James, Can I suggest that you take a look at the excellent bibliography at the end of Clay Blair's Vol. 2 (Hitler's U-Boat War - The Hunted 1942-1945). There are several references to both U-40 and U-42, as well as links to the appropriate files at NARA Washington and TNA Kew. So, perhaps a visit to one or the other, or getting a researcher to take a look for you, might pr
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Dear Wesley, Its really good to hear from you.I did try to get in touch earlier, but failed. Re the Kristall article, I confirm that I already have a copy, but many thanks for the kind offer. However I also confirm that I would be very happy to share documents and details of prime-sources with you, especially as I have been unable to locate some of your "Fish out of Water" refe
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Dear Phil, You may find it useful to take a look at the excellent website - www.uboatarchive.net There, under the U-530 heading, you will find copies of two relevant official US Navy documents: First, the US Navy (Op-16-Z) Crew Interrogation Report dated 22 August 1945 Second, the US Naval Attache's Report from Buenos Aires dated 24 July 1945 Whilst numerous conspiracy theoris
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Dear Thorsten, Many thanks for the suggestion. Nice try, and "a Happy Xmas to you too"! Regrettably if I was to start a project to "correct" Wiki in respect of all the U-Boats that surrendered, I suspect I would still be at it next Xmas. Rather, my point in highlighting Wiki's errors re U-570 was simply to emphasise the need to beware of accepting everything ther
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Dear Thorsten, Thanks. I take your point about Wikipedia, but no one appears to be inclined to change the incorrect information in uboat.net either - which is surprising. In two places under the heading "U-570" the commissioning date in uboat.net is said to be 19 September 1941 - which is just not true. U-570 arrived at Barrow as "U-570", even though it was flying
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Dear All, Further to my earlier information that HMS Kingston Agate did not escort U-570 from Iceland to Barrow, I have done a "belt-and-braces" check with TNA file ADM 208/9 (The Red Book), and this confirms that during the time of the transit, HMS Kingston Agate was located at Tobermory in western Scotland. Thus the uboat.net version of the story is now doubly confirmed to be co
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Dear All, I am glad to see that my original query about HMT Kingston Agate escorting U-570 from Iceland to Barrow has been taken on board and that the error has been corrected. Thank you. Incidentally, the Wikipedia entry is still incorrect. Yours aye, Derek.
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Dear John, Thanks. Yes, I am already clear about that part of the HMS Graph story - and have several prime-source documents to prove it. And, by the way, I don't rate the Drummond version generally. A lot of fiction has been included. What I am really after are the details of U-570's transit from Iceland to Barrow, and in particular proof (rather than speculation) that HMT K
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Dear All, After U-570's capture and recovery to Iceland in late August and early September 1941, it was sailed to Barrow-in-Furness prior to being repaired and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Graph. Escorted by the destroyer HMS Saladin, it left Hvalfjord in Iceland on 29 September and arrived in Barrow on 3 October. However, I note that in the unfinished story of HMS Graph
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Dear Rainer, I regret to say that the NARA info on Ewald Felix is the square root of useless. Just a few personal details, a couple of photos and his fingerprints. Nothing whatsoever about his time as a POW. However, thanks for trying on my behalf - it could have been a gold mine I'll keep looking. Yours aye, Derek.
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Dear Rainer, How very talented of you to discover this - thank you so much. I will now get my researcher in Washington to obtain them for me. Yours aye (and Happy New Year), Derek.
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Dear All, After U-505 was captured on 4 June 1944, the 58 surviving members of the crew were transported to Bermuda. However, on 19/20 June, only 57 of them were disembarked in Bermuda, with just one remaining on board either USS Guadalcanal or one of the other vessels in Task Group TG 22.3. He was Maschingefreiter Ewald Felix, who had assisted the US Navy salvage parties to keep U-505 a
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Dear Brad, What makes you think that any U-Boat surrendered at sea to HMCS Fredericton? Any hints please, ie. date, location, source of the story, etc. Certainly no U-Boat which surrendered at sea in the North Atlantic in May 1945 was escorted directly to Londonderry (or Lisahally or Lough Foyle). Those that surrendered at sea and ended up in the UK arrived at either Loch Eriboll or W
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Dear Pat, Further to my earlier message re this topic, if you want to learn more about U-776's voyage from Portland to London and up the east coast, try the following: "Shetlandimes.co.uk From London to Lerwick. The Final Voyage of U-776" It's a 5-page article and makes interesting reading. With luck it may allow your uncle to recall some or all of the trip. Hope i
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Dear Pat, Herewith some information which may help to refresh/unlock your Uncle Henry’s memory of events concerning U-Boats in May 1945. The carefully arranged PR surrender ceremony in Lisahally (near Londonderry) took place on 14 May (not VE Day), and involved 8 U-Boats which had already surrendered either at sea or in Loch Eriboll, and then been moved to Lisahally from Loch Eriboll via Lo
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Dear Greg, Herewith some info about U-826 which may be helpful to you: In late April/early May U-826 was on patrol in the Atlantic to the west of the English Channel On 4/5 May U-826 received the order (to all U-Boats at sea) to cease operations and return to Norway On 8/9 May U-826 received the order (to all U-Boats at sea) to surrender. U-Boats were instructed to surface and report
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Dear Craftsman, Three U-Boats crossed the Atlantic from the UK with American crews in 1945. First, U-2513 and U-3008 in August (in company). Second, U-1105 in December (on its own). All three transits were made on the surface, and your mention of the storm suggests that the one you are looking for is U-1105. Hope that helps. Yours aye, Derek.
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Dear Ken, You are quite right, and I support every word that you have said. As you know, I too have tried to persuade Jo Chillino that his version of U-234's story in incorrect, but all to no avail. Like you, and for the avoidance of doubt, I confirm that U-234 was not carrying Uranium. Rather it was Uranium Oxide - very different. Also, despite what very many sources may say, U-
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