Re: Harbor tug Pionier 5
Posted by:
Jan-Olof (IP Logged)
Date: August 25, 2002 02:37PM
Thank you Theodor, here's the story (according to a telegram to the Swedish Naval Staff):
25.10.44
At 1910 hours the V-35 sighted a darkened motorboat slightly west of the Trelleborg lighthouse. The motorboat tried to escape when V-35 fired two shots (blanks). While trying to board the vessel the V-35 was rammed by the motorboat. The V-35 now fired a machine gun salvo in front of the darkened vessel. When it didn't stop another salvo was fired directly at the boat which immediately stopped. There were two young men aboard the vessel, both in uniform. One of them had been hit in the throat by the machine gun salvo. V-35 now towed the vessel into Trelleborg. The wounded sailor was taken to the hospital, his condition is serious. The other sailor was turned over to the Police. The vessel whose name is Pionjär V was found to be unarmed.
Regards
Jan-Olof