U-BOAT ATTACK LOGS : a complete record of warship sinkings from original sources 1939-1945 / Daniel Morgan & Bruce Taylor ; with a foreword by Professor Jürgen Rohwer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Daniel, author.

Taylor, Bruce, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany. Kriegsmarine Submarine forces--History--World War, 1939-1945.

Germany.

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, German.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Atlantic Ocean.

Submarines (Ships)--Germany--History--20th century.

Submarines (Ships).

Submariners--Germany--History--20th century.

Submariners.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 p.)

Place of Publication:

South Yorkshire, England : Seaforth Publishing, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the Second World War over 250 Allied warships from a dozen navies were sent to the bottom by German U-boats. This ground-breaking study provides a detailed analysis of every sinking for which source material survives from both the Allied and the German sides, resulting in detailed treatment of the fate of 110 vessels, with the remainder summarised in an extensive appendix. Uniquely, each entry is built around a specialist translation of the relevant segment of the war diary (log) of the U-boat in question, taken directly from the surviving originals - remarkably, this represents the fir

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Authors' Note; Abbreviations; Glossary; Foreword; Introduction; Reading the Kriegstagebücher; The Entries; 1939; 1 HMS Courageous 17 September U29; 2 HMS Royal Oak 14 October U47; 1940; 3 HMS Exmouth 21 January U22; 4 HMS Daring 18 February U23; 5 HMS/m Thistle 10 April U4; 6 NF Doris 8 May U9; 7 HMS Grafton 29 May U62; 8 HMS Carinthia 6-7 June U46; 9 HMS Scotstoun 13 June U25; 10 HMS Andania 15-16 June UA; 11 HMS Cape Howe 21 June U28; 12 HMS Willamette Valley 28 June U51; 13 HMS Whirlwind 5 July U34

14 HMS/m Spearfish 1 August U3415 HMS Transylvania 10 August U56; 16 HMS Penzance 24 August U37; 17 HMS Dunvegan Castle 27-28 August U46; 18 HMS Dundee 14-15 September U48; 19 HMS Laurentic and HMS Patroclus 3-4 November U99; 20 HMS Forfar 2 December U99; 21 NF Sfax 19 December U37; 1941; 22 HMS Crispin 3-4 February U107; 23 HMS Manistee 23-24 February U107; 24 HMS Rajputana 13 April U108; 25 HMS Camito 6-7 May U97; 26 HMS Salopian 13 May U98; 27 M-99 27 June U149; 28 M-94 21 July U140; 29 HMS Picotee 12 August U568; 30 HNorMS Bath 19 August U204; 31 HMS Zinnia 23 August U564

32 HMCS Lévis (i) 19 September U7433 HMS Springbank 27 September U201; 34 HMS Fleur-de-Lys 14 October U206; 35 HMS Gladiolus 16 or 17 October U553, U558 or U432; 36 HMS Broadwater 18 October U1O1; 37 HMS Cossack (i) 23-27 October U563; 38 USS Reuben James (i) 31 October U552; 39 HMS Ark Royal 13-14 November U81; 40 HMS Dunedin 24 November U124; 41 HMS Barham 25 November U331; 42 HMAS Parramatta 27 November U559; 43 HMSAudacity 21 December U751; 44 HMS Salvia 24 December U568; 1942; 45 M-175 10 January U584; 46 HMS Gurkha (ii) 17 January U133; 47 HMS Matabele 17 January U454

48 USS Alexander Hamilton 29 January U13249 HMS Culver 31 January U105; 50 HMS Arbutus (i) 5 February U136; 51 FNFLAlysse 8-10 February U654; 52 HMCS Spikenard 10 February U136; 53 USS Jacob Jones (i) 28 February U578; 54 HMS Naiad 11 March U565; 55 HMS Heythrop 20 March U652; 56 HMS Jaguar 26 March U652; 57 USS Atik 26 March U123; 58 HMS Edinburgh 30 April-2 May U456; 59 USS Cythera 2 May U402; 60 USS Gannet 7 June U653; 61 FNFL Mimosa 9 June U124; 62 HMS Grove 12 June U77; 63 HMS Hermione 16 June U205; 64 HMS Medway 30 June U372; 65 HMS Eagle 11 August U73; 66 USCG Muskeget 9 September U755

67 HMCS Charlottetown 11 September U51768 HMCS Ottawa (i) 13 September U91; 69 HMS Leda 20 September U435; 70 HMS Somali 20-24 September U703; 71 HMS Veteran 26 September U404; 72 HMS Martin 10 November U431; 73 HMS Hecla (i) 11 November U515; 74 HrMs Isaac Sweers 13 November U431; 75 HMS Avenger 15 November U155; 76 HNorMS Montbretia 18 November U262; 77 HMS Blean 11 December U443; 78 HMS Firedrake 16-17 December U211; 79 HMS Partridge 18 December U565; 80 HMS Fidelity 30 December U435; 1943; 81 HMS Welshman 1 February U617; 82 HrMs Colombia 27 February U516; 83 HMS Beverley 11 April U188

84 HMS/m P615 18 April U123

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781473820036

1473820030

9781473800717

1473800714

OCLC:

881607859