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Brian Corijn wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 12:45 pm Exmoor

Thanks to this piece of information, I - being an e-boat specialist - realized for the first time that there were two of them in WW II, the first being sunk on Feb 25, 1941, by the German S 30

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the FFS names with the spelling errors RENOUCULE for RENONCULE and ROSELEYS for ROSELYS.

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Jordi Comas wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 1:54 pm On 15 May 1942 was sunk by German bombers in the Arctic.

As far as I remember, she was severely damaged by Ju 88`s on May, 14, and scuttled by MATCHLESS the next day

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hi, Some sources also mention Foresight and Keppel...........is this right? according to http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4007-20JUL01.htm, those two departed from Gibraltar - after the action off Calabria - to escort the tow with the torpedoed destroyer ESCORT back to Gibraltar (but ESCORT sank)...

DONNA NOOK, hired trawler, .... Served in WW2 . Lost in action with German E-boats off Shipwash on 25 September 1943, she sank after colliding with HMT "Stella Rigel" while manoeuvring to rescue survivors of HMT "Franc Tireur", which had been torpedoed "S 96" (lost, to...

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Platon Alexiades wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:41 pm What is the 0,5%?

Good question
AFAIR, we had a two minor disagreement which 3rd flottilla boats laid mines where and when off Malta in April, 1942, and off North Africa in March to May, 1943

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Platon Alexiades wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:23 pm I wonder what is your view on this story?

I agree with you (as in 99,5 % of all cases )

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Platon Alexiades wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2020 4:52 pm A minefield was laid there in late April 1943

a minor supplement by an E-boat enthusiast : in the night April 29/30, by S 33, S 36 and S 57 of 3rd flottilla

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hi, British armed merchant cruiser California was damaged in the English Channel by German airplanes on 26 March 1942. 1. The position given places the location of attack in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s_Channel 2. I have severe doubts that a vulnerable seaplane like the He 115 was...

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look here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_L%27Ajaccienne

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hi, Jordi,

according to http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4008-21AUG02.htm, your numbers are correct. The text says furthermore "Only two crew from ESK were rescued by British ships."

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I think that it is reasonable to presume that she was proceeding towards Bordeaux, like all other blockade runners

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hi, according to Gröner, Doggerbank was one of a series of steamers named after the first ship Otto Fricke . They were built from 1914 to 1921, Doggerbank presumably in 1915, at Seebeck shipyard, Geestemünde Tonnage for the ships differed slightly between 231 and 242 BRT, no specifics are given for ...

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addendum : RAF Wellington squadrons 40 and 104 were stationed at Malta in the last quarter of 1941

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hi, Jordi, the sources I know mention 15 caualties without according these to specific boats. Apparently, T 4 , T 14 and T 19 suffered from "Friendly Fire" by KOMET's 20 mm guns (before she sank), the most prominent victim being the SO 3rd T-flotilla (Flottillenchef) KKpt Hans Wilcke, on t...