UK ship sunk by U-boat discovered

STEED · 09-26-11, 12:50 PM

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-ship-sun...164528145.html

Quick get that £132 million, we need it to help pay the debt.

Osmium Steele · 09-26-11, 01:00 PM

Good luck recovering the silver from 3 miles down.

Incredible find though!

BossMark · 09-26-11, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by STEED

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-ship-sun...164528145.html

Quick get that £132 million, we need it to help pay the debt.

Yep tossers Dave and George would like it to say we have cleared £132m off our debts

Rhodes · 09-26-11, 03:46 PM

Damn, it shoud been sunk near Madeira...

09-26-11, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by STEED

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-ship-sun...164528145.html

Quick get that £132 million, we need it to help pay the debt.

you got a dept then Steed, I have't

Torplexed · 09-26-11, 07:55 PM

I hope they got the ship's manifest right. It would be embarrassing to recover the cargo and find it was actually rubber or coal.

They keep reporting it on the radio today as "a ship that was sunk by a Nazi torpedo", as if the warhead was emblazoned with a big black swastika. I guess German torpedo didn't sound dramatic enough.

mookiemookie · 09-28-11, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed

They keep reporting it on the radio today as "a ship that was sunk by a Nazi torpedo", as if the warhead was emblazoned with a big black swastika. I guess German torpedo didn't sound dramatic enough.

Hey you don't know, maybe that torpedo was a card carrying member of the party.

papa_smurf · 09-27-11, 05:20 AM

Could this be the start of a new rush to salvage other sunken ships form this era. Not to put a downer on this, but many sailors went down with these ships and thus can be considered as war graves.

Jimbuna · 09-27-11, 07:09 AM

The salvage company do best out of it...80% of the cargoes value

papa_smurf · 09-27-11, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

The salvage company do best out of it...80% of the cargoes value

I think thats due to the ship been sunk in international waters, if it was in UK territorial water UK government would get more, if not all (I think, may be wrong).

Jimbuna · 09-27-11, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by papa_smurf

I think thats due to the ship been sunk in international waters, if it was in UK territorial water UK government would get more, if not all (I think, may be wrong).

Either way it's not going to go very far....might cover Camerons QPR season ticket

Herr-Berbunch · 09-27-11, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

The salvage company do best out of it...80% of the cargoes value

That's just over £100m, but what cost to recover the load? There will be a profit, I imagine, but not too much.

Jimbuna · 09-27-11, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

That's just over £100m, but what cost to recover the load? There will be a profit, I imagine, but not too much.

Well personally speaking, if she has war dead aboard I'd rather they left her alone.

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...

09-26-11, 12:50 PM	#1
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	UK ship sunk by U-boat discovered http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-ship-sun...164528145.html Quick get that £132 million, we need it to help pay the debt. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

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Osmium Steele Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Upper midwest USA Posts: 1,101 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Good luck recovering the silver from 3 miles down. Incredible find though! __________________ In the month of July of the year 1348, between the feasts of St. Benedict and of St. Swithin, a strange thing came upon England... My U297 build thread

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Rhodes Silent Hunter Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Figueira da Foz, Portugal Posts: 4,515 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	Damn, it shoud been sunk near Madeira... __________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16416646@N05/

09-26-11, 07:55 PM	#6
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I hope they got the ship's manifest right. It would be embarrassing to recover the cargo and find it was actually rubber or coal. They keep reporting it on the radio today as "a ship that was sunk by a Nazi torpedo", as if the warhead was emblazoned with a big black swastika. I guess German torpedo didn't sound dramatic enough. __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili--

09-27-11, 05:20 AM	#8
papa_smurf Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: High Peak, Derbyshire Posts: 2,851 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	Could this be the start of a new rush to salvage other sunken ships form this era. Not to put a downer on this, but many sailors went down with these ships and thus can be considered as war graves. __________________

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The salvage company do best out of it...80% of the cargoes value __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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...

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