John, Just out of luck as I have copies of the m first half of the March logbook for Malaya, nothing unfortunately for the end of March. Not an exact date but this narrows it down a bit. March 29th Arrived at Port of Spain, Trinidad.where temporary repairs were carried out. (For details see HITLER’S U-BOAT WAR by C Blair.) On completion took passage to New York for repair.
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John, A bit more to add to hospital ship movements at Freetown. 15 Feb HS Vasna arrives Freetown 18 Feb HS Oxfordshire departs Freetown, destination is not stated but it is most probable it was for Capetown/Simonstown for refit. 25 Apr Dept of Defence South Africa request HS Oxfordshire to transfer 200 invalids from Durban. These patients are to be repatriated back to the UK on HS Vasna
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John Oxfordshire was en route from Capetown via Simonstown, arrving back at Freetown on 26 Mat with the survivors onboard. Haven't found out why she was in Capetown and will look further back to see if there is any further information. According to survivors report from Benvrackie they were under the impression that a uboat had been stsalking them for some time so something else to loo
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Maurice, Send me a private message with your email address. Mark
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A selection here Mark
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A good example would be the first war patrol of U-100, after expending the last torpedoes attacking OA-204, Schepke headed for Lorient in the ealyhours of 29 August and arrived on 01 September. Although U-100 was starting from off the Donegal coast there would onlybe acouple of hours difference (shorter) if starting from say near Tory or Inishtrahull Islands. Stopping and asking for f
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Can you be more specific, where on the Irish coast? North Channel/South coast/Irish Sea?
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I suggest you try the following site. Make sure whenyou post to give asmuch detail about your grandfather (first name,date & place of birthetc.) Its easier to find someone with all this info. Regards, Mark
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Nobby, Perhaps nobody has any definitive information to provide, there are a couple of similar threads active in other forums. I can say from the responses to those that the following boats 826, 1009 & 1305. Can't say with any certainty about the rest. Mark
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Rainer, Ref U-372 ktb 12 August 1941 0855 crash dive after sighting a twin engine bomber seen coming out of a cloud bank towards the u-boat. Heard two loud detonations. Doesn't mention any damage and remained submerged until 0934 Grid ref at 0800 BF 4431 (47°21'00"N 10°25'00"W) Would appear that U-372 was indeed the boat attacked by Blenheim. Regards,
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Thanks CC, Mark
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I've started a second thread instead of adding to my previous quary. I have found a couple of photo's of U-1009 coming into Londonderry. Pictures 13 - 16 show the U-boat. Was this after it was transferred from Scotland? Regards, Mark
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Gents, I came across a movietone clip showing a U-bot surrendering at Londonderry with Max Horten present to accept the surrender. If you look at the clip at 42 seconds in you see an RN rating standing guard on the aft anti-aircraft platform, there are no AA guns but what caught my attention were the double sets of container hatches you can see. I thought it may be for minelaying at fi
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GRT is independent of any stability calculations you would do when determining how much cargo you loaded. After a bulk/general cargo ship had loaded a draft survey would be carried out using the actual drafts, ballast, fuel and freshwater onboard and the ships lightship to derive the totalweight of cargo onboard. Tankers are different as you calculate the volume of cargo onboard. As a chief offi
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The tonnage recorded is the gross registered tonnage (GRT), which is a measure of the ships internal volume and remains a constant figure throughout the ships life (unless there are alterations to the ships structure). There was no distinction given to whether or not the ship was laden or in ballast when recording the tonnage of the ship sunk. Mark
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I read a reference to Bachem nets in Brain McCue's book 'U-boats in the Bay of Biscay'. He mentions they were tried out as an attempt to make a surfaced U-boat less detectable by radar. No great detail but it seems the system wasn't a success. Does anybody have some more detail on the system or a reference to a book which details the system? Regards, Mark
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Maurice, Your great grandfather died during the night of 15/16 February while his lifeboat was just five miles off the coast. They could not make landfall on the night of 15 February as the weather picked up. When Salvador Pulis passed away he was buried at sea. If you want any further details on the ship please contact me or even better would be to contact Pat O'Brien (treatycity). Pat
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I'm posting this in general discussion as its not a technical question relating to how GHG worked. I am interested to know if anybody has come across any reference in U-bota ktb's regarding the use of GHG while at sea and detection ranges. I have just come across it mentioned for the first time, the U-boat commander mentioned that they only detected a ship on GHG when it was 1000 metres
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HMS Kurd 10 July 1945 regards, Mark
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What was the offical German name/designation given to the Luftwaffe radio intercept service based at Paris? Regards, Mark
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Where was the fuel oil transfer hoses stowed on the type XIV boats when they were not in use? Where they external or internal? Regards, Mark
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Felix, Here is sinking of Point Pleaseant Park Feb 1945, although it was the 37mm that was used Nord, August 1944, again 37mm Noreen Mary, July 1944 Regards, Mark
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Pat, No problem, send me a private message with your email address and I will pass it on. Regards, Mark
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Pat as far I am aware there are no surviving crew members from Langleeford. I have tried to track down some myself without any success. One of the crew members, John O Donoghue was from Cape Clear. He has a brother who is still alive and I was to correspond with him through a person from the Island. However a recent family tragedy prevented us talking about John. There was several Irish crew mem
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Kenny, Send me a private message with your email address, I have some info to send to you. Mark
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Kenny, I'm at Kew this week and if I have time I'll trty and get a copy of the Cyclops crew list with your grandads signature on it. I'll may be able to try for some other records but I can't garauntee anything. Mark
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Kenny, Here is the information regarding your grandfather on the CWGC website Regards, Mark
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Do you have your grandfathers full name? Here is the list of casualties from Cyclops 001 AH CHEE - - SS CYCLOPS LIVERPOOL 11/01/1942 . . 002 AH FONG - - SS CYCLOPS LIVERPOOL 11/01/1942 . . 003 CHAN KAT - - SS CYCLOPS LIVERPOOL 11/01/1942 . . 004 CHAN SUI - - SS CYCLOPS LIVERPOOL 11/01/1942 . . 005 CHAN WON - - SS CYCLOPS LIVERPOOL 11/01/1942 . . 006 CHAN YUNG - - SS CYCLOPS
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I read somewhere recently a price comparison for a WWI German dreadnought costing 43 million marks and 4 U-boats costing 6 million marks. Regards, Mark
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I have read that the exhaust valves on the early type VII boats leaked when the boats dived deep (Blair, H. U-boat War). Reading the KTB for U-57, a type IIC boat, Topp experienced an exhaust valve failure when diving after an attack. Did the IIC exhaust valves close in the same manner as the VII i.e. against the sea pressure? Does anyone know where I could read more about the U-boat design fau
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