U Boats in the Bristol Channel - Academia.edu
Uboats were despatched to the Channel in the opening stages of the war and returned for a further campaign in the closing months. The following chapters give some details of the U-boat war in the Bristol Channel and the Irish Sea.
German submarine U-400 - Wikipedia
German submarine U-400 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 18 November 1942 at the Howaldtswerke yard in Kiel as yard number 32, launched on 8 January 1944 and commissioned on 18 March under the command of Kapitänleutnant Horst Creutz.
U-boat Warfare 1944 - Naval History.Net
1st - On passage into the Bristol Channel as part of the U-boat Inshore Campaign, "U-247" was sunk close to Lands End by patrolling Canadian frigates "St John" and "Swansea" of the 9th EG.
War Mystery Solved - CIX
Dec 22, 2006 · The U-boat crews were under orders to patrol coastal waters hunting Allied shipping at the end of the war because the Atlantic campaign was over. Admiralty records show two of the three U-boats in question were thought to …
Sunk by a U-boat after leaving Newport - South Wales Argus
Feb 15, 2020 · IN THE early hours of February 26, 1918, the hospital ship HMHS Glenart Castle left Newport and steamed down the Bristol Channel. Its destination was Brest, in north western France, where it...
Battles of Britain - from RAF in 1940 to U-boat campaigns in 1945
The Royal Navy was directly involved in 12 of the sinkings, including: 5th - "U-1169" went down off the southeast coast of Ireland in a deep-laid minefield in St George's Channel. 6th - Two U-boats were sunk in Channel operations.
U-boat Warfare 1945 - naval-history.net
21st - After torpedoing a merchant ship from a Thames/ Bristol Channel convoy, "U-1199" was sunk close to Lands End by escorting destroyer "lcarus" and corvette "Mignonette".
The U-boat Campaigns in the Bristol Channel 1939-45
U-boats were despatched to the Channel in the opening stages of the war and returned for a further campaign in the closing months. The following sections give some details of the U-boat war in the Bristol Channel and the Irish Sea.
uboat.net - Articles
Feb 14, 2004 · In order to get urgently needed information about the operational situation in the Bristol Channel and to evaluate the technical features of the prototype 3.7 cm AA-gun Type 43 fitted to U 400, the boat was ordered repeatedly in the following days to send a …
Submarine Detection - Bournemouth University
carrier, HMS Courageous. She was sunk by U-boat U-29 in the Bristol Channel two weeks after war was declared. In the first month alone, 41 ships were lost.