A Question for History Buffs

[Murdock]

Ok here goes is there any recorded evedence of two u-boats in a wolfpack attacking and sinking the same ship in a convoy with torps.:o
And only discovering that they had done so later.
Must have happend i think:hmm:

[don1reed]

absolutely:
U-26, Typ I, Klaus Ewerth Aug 1939
U-32, Typ 7, Paul Büchel Sep 39
U-35, Typ 7, Werner Lott "
U-33, Typ 7, Hans-Wilhelm von Dresky Oct 39
U-28, Typ 7, Günter Kuhnki Nov 39
U-30, Typ 7, Fritz-Julius Lemp Dez 39
U-53, Typ 7, Harald Grosse Feb 40
U-37, Typ 9, Victor Oehrn Mai 40
U-46, Typ 7b, Engelbert Endrass Jun 40
U-26, Typ I, Heinz Scheringer, Jun 40
U-99, Typ 7b, Otto Kretschmer Jun 40
U-99, " Jul 40
U-46, Engelbert Endrass Aug 40
U-100, 7b, Joachim Schepki Aug 40
U-28, 7, Günter Kuhnki Aug 40
U-32, 7, Hans Jenisch Aug 40
U-48, 7b, Heinrich Bleichrodt Sep 40
" Oct 40
U-101, 7b, Fritz Frauenheim Oct 40
U-100, Joachim Schepki Oct 40
U-47, 7b, Günther Prien Oct 40
U-104, 9b, Harald Jürst, Nov 40
U-43, 9, Wolfgang Lüth Nov 40
U-96, 7c, HL Wilenbrock Dez 40
....


The list goes on like this until the end of the war. See Appendix 2 of vol I C. Blair "Hitler's U-Boat War"


cheers,

[Murdock]

Wow:o Didnt no there were that many Thanks for the info.

[sandbag69]

If 2 U-Boats attacked/claimed to attack the same ship and it sank they were awarded a 1/2 kill.

[bookworm_020]

You must remember that communication wasn't as good between sub's as other ships. The sub captains were always on the look out for a big ship to sink so if there were a couple of U-boats out there they would offen gun for the same target.:doh:

This also happened with US boats in the first mini-wolfpacks they used. Better communication and pre-planning helped reduce cases latter on.

[P_Funk]

In fact Wolf Packs really for the most part weren't much like packs. They were just a bunch of U-boats attacking the same convoy. They had little to no communication between themselves so there was really no unified strategy for attack. If they had such a thing the packs might have been muchmore successful. Imagine attacking on one flank to draw away the escorts and having 5 others attacking the other flank. But this wasn't possible given the way captains tended operate plus the use of their radios became a homing beacon for escorts given their new "HuffDuff" trackers.