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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I've not heard of any, because they usually tethered the watch crew and kept the hatch closed. Of course there was the one boat in which the replacement watch went to the bridge to find no one there. They had all been washed overboard.  |
Yep....U-106
U-106, 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 Grüneberg, Fähnrich zur See Herbert von Bruchhausen, Oberbootsmannmaat Karl Heemann, Matrose Ewald Brühl]