U Boats in the Bristol Channel - Academia.edu
Uboats were despatched to the Channel in the opening stages of the war and returned for a further campaign in the closing months. The following chapters give some details of the U-boat war in the Bristol Channel and the Irish Sea.
U-boat Warfare 1944 - Naval History.Net
1st - On passage into the Bristol Channel as part of the U-boat Inshore Campaign, "U-247" was sunk close to Lands End by patrolling Canadian frigates "St John" and "Swansea" of the 9th EG.
War Mystery Solved - CIX
2006年12月22日 · Admiralty records show two of the three U-boats in question were thought to have been sunk by depth charge in the Bristol Channel. This new research shows that was wrong and they actually struck mines off Cornwall."
Battles of Britain - from RAF in 1940 to U-boat campaigns in 1945
1st - On passage into the Bristol Channel as part of the U-boat Inshore Campaign, "U-247" was sunk close to Lands End by patrolling Canadian frigates "St John" and "Swansea" of the 9th EG.
List of shipwrecks in the Bristol Channel - Wikipedia
A number of ships have run aground or sunk in the Bristol Channel, [1] a stretch of water between southern Wales, Devon and Somerset. Cardiff , Barry and Penarth were once the largest coal exporters in the world and the channel received significant traffic at the beginning of the twentieth century during exportation.
Sunk by a U-boat after leaving Newport - South Wales Argus
2020年2月15日 · At 4am, the hospital ship was off Lundy island, in the Bristol Channel, when disaster struck. According to newspaper reports at the time, the ship’s helmsman noticed a suspicious light in the...
U-boats in the Bristol Channel – Nigel Robins
2024年4月15日 · I eventually expanded the work to include the 1944-45 inshore campaign when U-boats returned to the Channel. Swansea and Cardiff were easy places to drop mines by U-boat and several famous U-boats visited the shipping lanes off Mumbles Head and the Scarweather Sands in October and December 1939.
The U-boat Campaigns in the Bristol Channel 1939-45
The mine war in the Bristol Channel gives a technical insight into the minelaying strategy of the German U-boat command. Information about the types of U-boat that came into the Bristol Channel. Individual histories of the U-boats that sailed the Bristol Channel
uboat.net - Articles
2004年2月14日 · At the end of October 1944 intercepted Ultra intelligence revealed the German intention for a probable renewal of U-Boat operations between Lands End and the Bristol Channel from Norwegian bases. On 29 October 1944 U-boat Command radioed a situation report for the Bristol Channel area to all boats at sea, which was to be kept permanently by the ...
Submarine Detection - Bournemouth University
carrier, HMS Courageous. She was sunk by U-boat U-29 in the Bristol Channel two weeks after war was declared. In the first month alone, 41 ships were lost.