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Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

CityOfBenares

Read the last part of the text...scary... :down:

Hmm I get:

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Ships Attacked demo
Sorry but this vessel you're looking for does not appear to be listed in our databases.

??? :hmm:

The ugly side of submarine warfare

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Originally Posted by joea

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Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

CityOfBenares

Read the last part of the text...scary... :down:

Hmm I get:

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??? :hmm:

I believe that's a subscription-only area of uboat.net, "The Conning Tower". Have to pay an annual subscription fee and get a user id/password to be able to access the listing of ships that were sunk. Lots of other info that can be looked up as well.

Here's a couple of other links with info on City Of Benares:

http://college.hmco.com/history/read...tyofbenare.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/north..._benares.shtml

if this isn't nasty, i dunno what is...

23 Oct 1941
An incredibly sad event befell U-106 on this date. When the replacement watch opened the tower hatch in rough seas they found out that the entire previous tower watch of 4 men had been washed overboard. [Oberleutnant zur See Werner GrÃ¼neberg, FÃ¤hnrich zur See Herbert von Bruchhausen, Oberbootsmannmaat Karl Heemann, Matrose Ewald BrÃ¼hl]

Re: The ugly side of submarine warfare

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Originally Posted by martes86

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Originally Posted by pampanito

OPORTO - Liverpool/Sevilla - Sulphate copper and seeds - 43 lost (4 survivors)

Just curious, do you have further details on this one?

Little can be added to the excellent reply by Iambecomelife. Just a few details:
At the moment of the attack, OS-44 comprised 46 ships in 11 columns. The four torpedoed ships were in convoy positions 64 (MARCELLA), 84 (CLAN ALPINE), 85 (OPORTO) and 92 (SEMBILANGAN), i.e. mostly in the rear positions except SEMBILANGAN, which blew up (apparently ammunition was included in her 4,657 tons of stores and general cargo). Protecting OS-44 was Escort Group 39 with three sloops (ROCHESTER, SCARBOROUGH and FLEETWOOD) and four Flower corvettes (BALSAM, COLTSFOOT, SPIREA and MIGNONETTE).
Gelhaus fired a salvo of six bow torpedoes (it would be interesting to know if they were standard type or loop-running FAT) and claimed six hits. Next day he tried a second approach, but was driven off by the escort.
This was one of the rare occasions in which reports from a Fw-200 'Kondor' recce aircraft allowed a successful convoy interception.