"U-boat successes" Topic
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machinehead  | 19 Dec 2021 6:26 a.m. PST |
Click on a month then on a ship which gives stats of the ship attacked and in a lot of cases shows a picture of the ship too.
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| Oddball | 19 Dec 2021 8:00 a.m. PST |
What a great website! Thanks for sharing the find. The narrative from the first sinking on Sept. 3, 1939, by Lemp in U-30, target SS Athenia. "A second torpedo had been stuck with running engines in its tube during the initial attack and the U-boat was in danger of being destroyed as the torpedo had timer detonator, but the crew managed to dislodge the stuck torpedo in time." I bet that was all kinds of exciting in the U-boat while the above item was removed. |
| machinehead | 19 Dec 2021 8:35 a.m. PST |
If you click on "on board" at the bottom it also shows what is known about some of the crew and passengers on the ships too. Pretty comprehensive information. |
| Andrew Walters | 19 Dec 2021 11:37 a.m. PST |
Wow, a hefty chunk of data made very accessible. Hats off to somebody. |
| Thresher01 | 19 Dec 2021 3:22 p.m. PST |
That's great! Thanks for sharing. It also has updated info, correcting some data and books, as to U-Boat losses, etc.. |
 gamertom | 19 Dec 2021 6:14 p.m. PST |
Lots of good info on that site. I found the USS Reuben James, sunk Oct 31, 1941. Hardly anyone knows about the fact that Germany sank a US warship two months before Pearl Harbor. Now what I didn't know until I perused the site is two weeks prior to the Reuben James being torpedoed, the USS Kearney was hit by a single torpedo which killed 11, but failed to sink the ship. So two examples of hostile action before Germany declared war on the US. Roosevelt was criticized for placing American warships on Neutrality Patrols of convoys destined for Great Britain. From the German point of view, the action may have been warranted due to the destroyers dropping depth charges due to U-boat actions near a convoy, a hostile act from the German point of view. |
| Blutarski | 20 Dec 2021 4:29 p.m. PST |
Not to put too fine a point on things, but Roosevelt's "Neutrality Patrol" was far from neutral. B |
Puster  | 21 Dec 2021 5:23 a.m. PST |
Getting depth charged certainly is seen as a hostile act by the submariners, even more so then escorting supplies to an enemy. September saw the first recorded attacks by US naval forces upon submarines. The war was slowly escalating in the Atlantic anyway, which partly explains Hitlers willingness to declare war in december. |
| Oddball | 21 Dec 2021 8:11 a.m. PST |
"due to the destroyers dropping depth charges due to U-boat actions near a convoy, a hostile act from the German point of view." Would you consider this a "hostile act", I know I would. |
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