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[ExFishermanBob]

Hullo All - thought I'd say hullo.

I used to be a Lobster and Crab fisherman in the Outer Hebrides. Also worked on St. Kilda (Hirta) for a while: used to travel across on HMAV Ardennes or Arakan (dunno if there's anyone here who remember them). I think they were old enough to possibly even be modelled in SH3, I'll have to sail around Village Bay and see....

Loving SH3 - particularly standing on-deck when leaving port.... can almost smell the dead crab in the bilge. Wonder if I could sneak a creel or two on-board and lift them when we return from a mission. Might be able to set them via the No. 1 tube...hmmmm

[von Kinderei]

Wel-come aboard Kaleun ...

[Valentino]

Welcome ExFishermanBob

[Aktungbby]

Welcome aboard Kaleun: My inlaws hail from Mull and I was just at Oban myself. (Facing the Hebrides at least.) Watch out for the Flanman Isles when on condensed time: I've grounded there a few times rounding the Faeros to return to Base when the Channel becomes lethal. They're easy to overlook when setting course... Might be the gulf stream current. From the Calif. wine country and Dungeness crabs myself, I spent my time in Caledonia learning the vagaries of highland and peat fired Scotch. Settled on a 21 yr old Glengoyne which I opened with my shipmates when we painted our 37 ft, 2 masted ketch hull with copper based paint. My brother served in the US navy, occasionally at Scapa Flow. Happy hunting just to the west of Scapa, Kaleun!

[Aktungbby]

As to U-110:Built at Germiawerf, Kiel and launched 28JUL1917. Two commanders: Otto von Schubert and Korvettenkapitan Karl Albrecht Koll. On three patrols from 22NOV1917 to 15MAR1918 U-110 sank 10 ships for 26,963 tons. On 15MAR1918 at 50'49 N> 08'06 W, U-110 was depth changed in tandem by HMS Micheal and HMS Moresby. She surfaced but then sank with 32 dead and nine survivors not including Koll. Since the location is just north of Ireland, some transport of the remains to Scotland must have occurred as it a considerable distance to the Outer Hebrides to the Northeast from the sink site.

[ExFishermanBob]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

As to U-110:Built at Germiawerf, Kiel and launched 28JUL1917. Two commanders: Otto von Schubert and Korvettenkapitan Karl Albrecht Koll. On three patrols from 22NOV1917 to 15MAR1918 U-110 sank 10 ships for 26,963 tons. On 15MAR1918 at 50'49 N> 08'06 W, U-110 was depth changed in tandem by HMS Micheal and HMS Moresby. She surfaced but then sank with 32 dead and nine survivors not including Koll. Since the location is just north of Ireland, some transport of the remains to Scotland must have occurred as it a considerable distance to the Outer Hebrides to the Northeast from the sink site.

Thank you very much for that information: hope you spotted the link to the photographs of U.110.

In the islands you get all sorts of flotsam and jetsam: one woman I knew used to have a New York dairy's crate for storing her firewood and peat, so 100 miles or so from Ireland is not too far. One of my neighbours on Berneray told me that a load of "Indian" sailors washed up on the south side of the Sound of Harris and were buried around Otternish. He himself was torpedoed twice: he was on minesweepers off Lowestoft.

[ExFishermanBob]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Welcome aboard Kaleun: My inlaws hail from Mull and I was just at Oban myself. (Facing the Hebrides at least.) Watch out for the Flanman Isles when on condensed time: I've grounded there a few times rounding the Faeros to return to Base when the Channel becomes lethal. They're easy to overlook when setting course... Might be the gulf stream current. From the Calif. wine country and Dungeness crabs myself, I spent my time in Caledonia learning the vagaries of highland and peat fired Scotch. Settled on a 21 yr old Glengoyne which I opened with my shipmates when we painted our 37 ft, 2 masted ketch hull with copper based paint. My brother served in the US navy, occasionally at Scapa Flow. Happy hunting just to the west of Scapa, Kaleun!

Mmmmm....Glengoyne. If you ever get a chance, try 'Te Bheag' (pronounced chey vick) which is made in Skye but is available in the U.S. (and very popular in Canada, so I've read).

Thanks for the warning about the Flannans: I'm still managing to sneak through the Channel.

I sailed right up into my old fishing haunts using the sub - fantastic to sail around the Hebrides again and into Village Bay in St. Kilda.

I did a run into Scapa (repeating Prien's attack) - it was fantastic to approach and find the blockade ships and the gap between them...with the sub, not the fishing boat.