HMS Ark Royal @ Discovery channel - Page 2

Herr-Berbunch · 05-30-11, 06:18 PM

I've recently read another of Pitchfork's books, Escape from Germany. Another good book indeed. I'll keep my eyes open for that Buccaneer one

Matador.es · 05-31-11, 06:08 AM

Thats cool, to have spoken and changed experiance with witnesses!

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Originally Posted by danasan

When I read here about HMS Ark Royal, I thought about HMS Ark Royal (91).

I than remembered that I knew Mr. G. Zierk, who served on U 81 when the AR was torpedoed at Gibraltar. He lived not so far away from Flensburg at the Gelting Bay. He told me about it from first hand experience.

Well, nothing else than what we can read about the sinking. Except maybe, that they almost stranded on the North African coast, because they had turned of their machines while they were searched by the DDs. The tides made them drifting towards the coast. It took hours to escape.

He was later transferred to U 370, which he helped to scuttle in May 1945 in the Gelting Bay. It can be said that he scuttled U 370 in front of the door of his house. After picking personal equipment and rifles, he and his comrades went to his house to wait for the end and what would happen next. He passed away a couple of years ago as a well known engineer. He left a bunch of U boat photos, which his widow still keeps. I arranged to get a few ones. Like this:

As a side note: his Captain on U 81, the later Admiral Friedrich Guggenberger, went for a walk, while being in hospital, into a near forest and never came back. That was in 1988. His body was not found until 1990. Strange thing IMHO

danasan · 05-31-11, 06:51 AM

A lot of things were scuttled here in the Flensburg area. Most of them were raised later. But when you talk to divers, they still find strange artefacts. At the end of WWII, everything was dumped into the water. All together 68 uboats. But they do not tell you were...

to be continued

There still remains an unknown uboat
and DD Z 43

Jimbuna · 05-31-11, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I've recently read another of Pitchfork's books, Escape from Germany. Another good book indeed. I'll keep my eyes open for that Buccaneer one

Jeebus!!...from £48.99

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...itchfork&ajr=8

I paid a guy on Britmodeller £25 for a mint condition edition and that included p&p.

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danasan Elite Spam Hunter Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Flensburg / Germany Posts: 1,141 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	A lot of things were scuttled here in the Flensburg area. Most of them were raised later. But when you talk to divers, they still find strange artefacts. At the end of WWII, everything was dumped into the water. All together 68 uboats. But they do not tell you were... to be continued There still remains an unknown uboat and DD Z 43 __________________ "I invite you to go inside this submergible hole in the water where you can nicely hide from destroyers." Last edited by danasan; 05-31-11 at 07:38 AM.