Hebridean U-Boot grave (WWI)

[ExFishermanBob]

My apologies if this has been posted here before (I searched but could find no reference to it).

On the Monachs / Heisker (off of the Outer Hebrides in the West of Scotland) lies the grave of an a member of the crew of the WWI U-Boat 110. I first saw it in the late 1980's when fishing off the Monachs (the islands are now uninhabited except occasionally by fishermen in the summer months). The body was buried near to where it washed ashore (common in the Isles).

Picture of grave: text is:
Unterseeboot Maschinist
Schatt Otto W.
S.M.U. Boot U.110
15th March 1918

Other picture is grave location looking west to the lighthouse on Shillay. My thanks to my brother for the photographs.

It is a very beautiful, but very lonely grave-site.

[ExFishermanBob]

...and having searched many times for more information on U110, some pictures were released on July 8th this year!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/twm_ne...7633570788096/
http://www.retronaut.com/?modalid=96842

[Schroeder]

Hello ExFishermanBob,
welcome aboard and thanks for sharing.

[Jimbuna]

Welcome Aboard and a great post to start off with

[ExFishermanBob]

Thanks to you both for the welcomes.

Just to add to the above, local knowledge has it that 3 bodies washed ashore, but only Otto had his ID tags, so he is the only one commemorated.

[u crank]

Welcome to SubSim.

Thanks.

[HW3]

Welcome Aboard!

[Leehebs]

I been looking for U110 resting place for a while and after following a link from 110 wiki page , I followed a link to a set of photographs showing that she had been raised and towed in, however it's states her place of being sunk off Hartlepool in the north east of England by HMS Garry.

Could there have been another 110 in ww1 or is this just a mistake, save me from looking for the wreck to dive.

Thanks

http://mashable.com/2015/09/18/germa.../#DYlNXsDAOkqQ

[August]

Originally Posted by ExFishermanBob

It is a very beautiful, but very lonely grave-site.

At least his family knows where he is buried. All we know of my Great Grandfathers last resting place is that he was killed in action in Belgium on 3 Oct 1918. We hope that he is buried in one of the German military cemeteries there but we just don't know.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Leehebs

I been looking for U110 resting place for a while and after following a link from 110 wiki page , I followed a link to a set of photographs showing that she had been raised and towed in, however it's states her place of being sunk off Hartlepool in the north east of England by HMS Garry.

Could there have been another 110 in ww1 or is this just a mistake, save me from looking for the wreck to dive.

Thanks

http://mashable.com/2015/09/18/germa.../#DYlNXsDAOkqQ

Not that I'm aware of. Here is a link to possibly the most definitive site on the subject matter which I presume you have already viewed:

http://www.uboat.net/wwi/boats/index.html?boat=UB%20110

The above link also provides a link to a website dedicated to the U Boat:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/twm_ne...7633570788096/

[ExFishermanBob]

The graves are from U110
http://uboat.net/wwi/boats/index.html?boat=110


The 'raised' photographs are of UB110, not U110
UB110...
http://uboat.net/wwi/boats/index.html?boat=UB+110

[Aktungbby]

Leehebs! @ XFishermanBob: The commander of WWI's UB110 also served in WWII as Chief of the Statistics office; and was amazingly prophetic:"

In the period immediately prior to the Second World War, Fübringer seems to have written a memorandum (cited in Padfield’s War Beneath the Sea, 1995 ed. p.48) arguing against a U-boat war against England until a way could be found to render U-boats immune to ASDIC, arguing that to commit the valuable U-boat crews [to such a war] would be irresponsible. Moreover, he argued that naval air power would be necessary to destroy convoy escorts and that in the future the roles of the navy and air forces would be so interconnected that these elements must be welded into unity by the outbreak of the war if heavy failures are not to result.

http://uboat.net/wwi/men/commanders/81.html

[Becker67]

Fantastic photo's. First time I have seen a hull stripped back to reveal the outer torpedo tube doors. Thank you for posting.

[Leehebs]

Thank you EFB , I did not notice the UB instead of U. What was the difference with U And UB. I know there were coastal and deep sea boats maybe that's it. Ah found it, UB are coastal Attack boats. Bit strange having the same ID numbers.

[Commander Wallace]

I know it's a little late but welcome to Subsim and a big Congratulations on your best of Subsim 2015 Award.