Yes the call signs are in the registers. Been there since 19th cent. If the ship gave out an SOS I thought you said the call sign is read out. Hence my question.
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Ken, Did the Germans transcribe the data by hand out of Lloyds Registers? Ships call sign listed in the details for each ship but you have to reverse search which means transcribing LR to find it. Quite a loooooong job !
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I am not sure that was the point was it? By laying mines a submarine is creating another war hazard to navigation. So say 20 mines are sown in an area. Two weeks later a Norwegian freighter hits one. This is when the story starts. To the Germans they have sown a small minefield in position X. So be it. To the owners of the freighter/allied authorities it is what happened next. If the sh
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A long time away like 20 odd years! Good day nice to be back. On a totally different site I have inadvertently got into a spat about cruisers and submarines. To my knowledge there has never been an episode of a WWII cruiser sinking an axis submarine through depth charging. For a start I am not aware of any cruiser carrying them or fitted with asdic/sonar. On the surface an incident may
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