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[John O]

Early in The War, Uboats were instructed to take the Captain of the ship prisioner before sinking.

[capthelm]

Originally Posted by cpt blueballs

its probably aint gona be in sh5 but it should be cool to be able to stop a ship whit some warning shots whit the deck gun and at the same time singnal the ship (whit singnal lights and radio) to stop and then send a boarding party over to sheck for contrabands. and have the abillity to take some prisoners.

allso be able to meet another u-boat at sea and visit the other boat and talk some **** whit the captain over some soup

check what out ?

[cpt blueballs]

ok i didnt meen take prisoners like it shoud be some main objektive but more something like this

On 28 Sep, 1939, the Jern (Master G. Gabrielsen) was stopped by U-32 65 miles west of Skudenes and the crew was given 15 minutes to get into the lifeboats. A boarding party from the U-boat scuttled the ship by three scuttling charges at 15.37 hours about 85 miles west of Jæren´s Rev. Five of the Norwegians had to help the boarding party to bring the explosives to the ship. The survivors were taken towards the shore on the U-boat before being transferred to the Swedish steam merchant Caledonia. The next day they were transferred to the Norwegian torpedoboat Lyn and taken to Kristiansand.

a also read this and its a order from later in the war 1943

http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-301INT.htm

Rahn said that a new order had recently been issued that U-boats should, whenever possible, take prisoners from among survivors of vessels sunk.

[JU_88]

Which Uboat was it that sunk a passenger ship, but then took the survivors life boats in tow - (with the intention off dropping off close to a neutal port)
unfortunaley it was attacked by aircraft so it had to break tow with the survivours and dive.
But i guess (hope) the aircraft called for transport to pick up the surviors afterwards?
Im sure it happenned early war but I forget which U-boat, kudos to kpt for trying to help those people, many other Uboat Skippers weren't nearly as humane...

[looney]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Which Uboat was it that sunk a passenger ship, but then took the survivors life boats in tow - (with the intention off dropping off close to a neutal port)
unfortunaley it was attacked by aircraft so it had to break tow with the survivours and dive.
But i guess (hope) the aircraft called for transport to pick up the surviors afterwards?
Im sure it happenned early war but I forget which U-boat, kudos to kpt for trying to help those people, many other Uboat Skippers weren't nearly as humane...

Your talking about the Laconia indecent. This could actually explained to be a warcrime from the american high command.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident

P.s. War is never humane, there where almost no accounts of war crimes committed by Uboat Skippers, there was only 1 actually accused and found guilty of committing a war crime. Allied skippers have a worse record, although none of them have been brought to court ("War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell").

Ships taking on casualties where not being attacked.

-edit-
I can't find the source of my knowledge about the crimes commited ..must be on some of the sites below:
http://Uboat.net, http://www.uboatarchive.net/, http://www.uboataces.com/