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Rongel · 09-28-11, 09:15 AM

Whoa!

I just read more about this from the newspaper. It read that the captain of the U-boat was Ernst Mengersen. U-101 fired four torpedoes but only one hit the ship. Still the 5237 ton ship went down in 20 minutes. And this was the shocking part, 85 crewmembers escaped to lifeboats, but the crew of the U-boat fired them with machineguns and only one survived, man called Richard Ayres.

EDIT: Weird, one newsite says that the lifeboats capsized and the men drown, no word about shootings...

09-28-11, 09:15 AM	#14
Rongel Grey Wolf Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Finland Posts: 859 Downloads: 174 Uploads: 0	Whoa! I just read more about this from the newspaper. It read that the captain of the U-boat was Ernst Mengersen. U-101 fired four torpedoes but only one hit the ship. Still the 5237 ton ship went down in 20 minutes. And this was the shocking part, 85 crewmembers escaped to lifeboats, but the crew of the U-boat fired them with machineguns and only one survived, man called Richard Ayres. EDIT: Weird, one newsite says that the lifeboats capsized and the men drown, no word about shootings...