Hi Rainer, I never looked into the crew/passenger lists for the ship, I have a newspaper article that lists those landed at Greenock and Galway that I have been using for names of those on board. I was reading on another site that the passenger lists were not complete, the third class passengers were not listed. The names of crew/passengers added to the ship info here would certainly be a g
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Hi Rainer, Ina Duncan is listed as a casualty, if I am understanding the chronology of the letter Janice has, then it was written after the sinking so this would discount Ina. Mark
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Re: D Kellogg What was the name (first, surname) and nationality of your uncle? Re: Janice Tiernan Any other info that may help, nationality of nurse or your aunt if they were friends studying together? Regards, Mark
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John & Rainer, From report of SO Escort for SL-56, CALABRIA is listed in sailing order for SL-56 however he states that three ships fell out from SLS-56, CALABRIA (4th) NICOLAS PATERAS (5th) PENNINGTON COURT (6th). Both NICOLAS PATERAS and PENNGINTON COURT were in the SLS-56 sailing order. All three fell behind before the rendezvous with the SL-56 section. HMS BULOLO was ocean escort for
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Ken, I can help with list of contraband items, message me with an email contact. Mark
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EMPIRE CELT had torpedo nets deployed but one torp did get through. There was a lot of snowflake and rockets fired during these attacks, something that may have been misinterpreted as lights on a merchant. A confusing night action with plenty of u-boats firing a several differnt targets. Mark
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Says Sherman tanks and dump trucks
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Thanks Ken, appreciated. Mark
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Reading a message from naval attache Stockholm to admiralty, it mentions thatu-boats were using hair covered with watertight paper was been fitted to the inner side of the outer hull for controlling temperature. Dated May 1943. Does anyone have further details on this? KR Mark
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Thanks Rainer,
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All, Merchant vessel Everleigh reported coming under surface attack by a uboat on the morning of 25 December 1940, position from Everleigh was 59-30N 17-20W. Looking at who was at sea for this day, two boats are likely candidates, U95 & U124.However there is no mention in the diaries for either boat of an attack on 25 December. Would any of our colleagues versed in Italian submarines be
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Hi Mark, If you go to fold3.com and do a search under WWII war diaries for the subs you mnetion you will find plenty of results under diaries under sub squdrons, task groups and individual ships, happy searching. Mark
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Hi John, Apologies but I was out of town for a couple of days, can you send me your email address, will pass on some info. Mark
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John, Additional info from report of WANDERER, at 0930/15 ARROW joined convoy and WANDERER deprted for Londonderry. From report WITCH, rejoined convoy at 0245/15 after search, was advised of bearing that ubosat was sighted by commodore, after completing search search rejoined at met OTTAWA
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john, From admiralty analysis of attack, composition of escort at the time of first attack on SC-3, DUNDEE - 600 yards ahead of GULLPOOL, WANDERER - 2 miles on port beam or rear ship, WITCH - 2 miles on starboard beam of rear ship, ST. LAURENT - 2 miles on port beam of leading ship, No other ships mentioned joining convoy subsequent to the attack. Mark
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Seems odd to remove such a large structural section before sinking. If they wanted the guns removed then all they had to do was dismantle the mount. Why then did they not remove the turrets from the type XXI's before sinking them?
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Guys, I was looking over the amazing photo's of U-778 on Innes McCarthy's FB page Maybe the photos's didn't show it but I wondering about the lack of any winter garden for AA gun placements. Was this a feature on some late war VIIC's? I thought by '44/'45 large wintergardens were standard? I'm sure someone will put me right. KR Mark
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Cheers Dan, appreciated. So what was the alarm for, aircraft sighting? was the boat attacked? Mark
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All, Reading through BdU war diaies on uboatarchive.net and the following was an interesting entry. 11 January 1944 Admonitory Radio Message No. 76: When about to dive because of danger from aircraft the "Naxos" antenna of one submarine was left on the bridge, cable caused conning tower hatch to jam while being closed. Commanding Officer gave order "Blow" and dashed
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Sounds like
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Terry, The guys on this website will tell you if its original and there is also a sub-forum for selling items.
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Ellerman's like Clan Line and other British shipping companies employed Indian/Lascar seamen. These crews were usuallly quite large, espeically if the ship was a coal fired steam ship. It would not be unusual to have 80-90 Indian ratings with 15-20 British officers on board.
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Great update Rainer, good work. Mark
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Some thoughts on this ships and entries here on uboat.net. According to Admiralty survivors report, all survivors were picked up by a cargoship LOOE (this is the name provided by the Master of JANNA, but it does not correspond with any known merchant ship and is most probably wrong) and landed at Milford Haven on the afternoon of 14 July. The reference to lifeboats landing at Mizen Head, Irela
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Hi Rainer, Thanks for the input, the position from U-43 and the additional distance make more sense mow. I always wondered why it took the survivors so long to reach Ireland from the original position. I put it down to a lack of surviving navigating officers. I thought the description of the uniforms and the type of sub may have been half right, when initially suspecting an Italian boat, but
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On 20 June 1941 (possibly one day either side of this date) the survivors of Cathrine, sunk 17 June, 1941, by U-43, they encountered a submarine who surfaced nearby. Sub was described as 'French' looking by one survivor, a gun forward, crew wore jerseys. One particularly striking crew member was wearing a cape with green band and a coat with green lapels. He also sported a long red bear
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I still think Polyphemus is a good contender.
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Another great post on survivors, thanks Kilian. Two posts in two days on this topic. KR< Mark
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kathy allan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > MY DAD WAS ONE F THE SURVIVORS FROM THE SS > LAPWING, MY FAMILY AND I VISITED CLIFFDEN AND ALSO > WALKED AROUND THE CHURCH WHERE THE PHILLIPINO > SEAMAN IS BURIED. I HAVE AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT > HAPPENED WRITTEN BY MY DAD AND A COPY OF THE > NAVIGATION TO REACH IRELAND BY CAPTAN KLEMP, THERE > I
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Geoff, A romper is a vessel that has increased speed independently and broken away from the main convoy, invariably getting further ahead of the main convoy. It is the opposite of a straggler. Regards, Mark
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