Hello all, I was wondering if there was a consensus on the theory of the ~262-foot probable U-Boat that was located off Argentina a few years ago. Personally, I think it's U-857, which was in the North Atlantic in late April, may have had time to flee South after the news of German surrender, like U-977 and U-530. The length is close as well. Curious to hear your thoughts ..read more

Hi, Has the loss of U1106 been re-assessed?.With The attack by a Liberator from RAF 224 squadron on 29.03.1945 in position 61:46n/02:16w,listed as credited with her sinking now put to an atack on U1022 with the same date and position which, although damaged survived, and U1106 now listed as loss to unknown cause from March 23rd ..read more

Met A guy in the late 1990s Ernie or Ernst Schmidt who (passed away now) lived in Ohio around Lima that claimed to have been in a Uboat. I think possably U1232 ( boat was 4 digits) and spent time after the war in a POW type camp in England. Can anyone confirm this person and record ..read more

Hi! I'm researching some events after the capitulation in may 1945. When a Norwegian veteran warship "Tordenskjold" – called Nymphe and used as anti-air by the germans - crashed to shore 17th of May near Svolvær in Lofoten, a submarine and it's crew were among the germans. I know the name of some of the crew: Oberleutnant z.see: Helmut Köchter A local historian has a name from the crew signed "Möhlmann", that he claims was the captain of this submarine. The submarine crew came from Narvik, and were sent to Svolvær before they were supposed to be transfered to a captive camp Bogen the 17th ..read more

While reading "Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days" by Karl Doenitz I ran across the following extract taken from an "Instructional Handbook" issued to the American Air Force during the War: If a U-boat sinks two 6,000 ton ships and one 3,000 ton tanker, here is a typical list of the sort of losses we should incur: 42 tanks, 8 6-inch howitzers, 88 25-pounder guns, 40 40mm guns, 24 armored patrol vehicles, 50 Bren guns or self-propelled gun mounts, 5,120 ton of munitions, 600 rides, 428 tons of tank accessories, 2000 tons of rations and 1000 drums of petrol Just think of what we could have don ..read more

Good day. Can somebody help me please identify the U-boat where this rare pressure gauge could come from? I've received a collection of objects related to WWI and WWII and objects got mixed together. I am wondering if this gauge could be from WWI, or WWII U-boat? Any information will be appreciated! Thank you ..read more

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 have happened but we are talking about submerged subs here. It didn't help that co-pilot said and quoted five examples, which I proved to be total rubbish. One example given was the date the cruiser was torpe ..read more

Good afternoon all I haven't been on this site for a good few years much to my shame. My question is who is looking after the U-boat archive at Cuxhaven after the passing of Herr Bredow ..read more

good evening i asken if anybody got images of the U204 . thank you, marlies ..read more

Hi is the total number of awards of the rank Kptlt, Korvkpt and Fregkpt listed? I have managed to identify fifteen, one in 1940, two each in 1941, 1942, 1943 and three in 1944, with five in 1945. John ..read more