Ship Names

[Henry Wood]

Originally Posted by robj250

I thought that German sub Kaleuns were not permitted to rescue survivors.

I said they "questioned" the survivors in the lifeboats, simply by going alongside the boats and shouting questions to the people in them. While they were forbidden to rescue survivors for various reasons, many of them did assist by passing some stores, water, to them and advising them of a course to sail. This could only happen with lone vessels of course, and not with convoy attacks.
Also, it was often possible to identify a ship by name following a torpedo attack if the ship's radio op was able to send out a "SSS..." (attacked by submarine) message, when he would quote the ship's name and position. It was then a simple matter of looking up the vessel in the Lloyd's Registry which most U-boats seemed to carry.

Henry