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English forum => Small talk => Topic started by: larsdehaan on March 16, 2011, 19:56:08

Title: U-106 discovered onbottom of northsea
Post by: larsdehaan on March 16, 2011, 19:56:08
hey all

an ww1 German submarine has been found it is the long lost Unterseeboot 106
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Type
U 93
Shipyard   Germaniawerft, Kiel  (Werk 275)
Ordered   5 May 1916    Laid down   
Launched   12 Jun 1917    Commissioned   28 Jul 1917
Commanders   
28 Jul 1917 - 7 Oct 1917      Hans Hufnagel
Career   1 patrols
2 Sep 1917 - 7 Oct 1917 IV Flotilla
Successes   1 ship damaged for a total of 5,867 tons.
1 warship sunk for a total of 957 tons.
Fate   7 Oct 1917 - Lost in a minefield about 40 miles north of Terschelling while homebound. 41 dead (all hands lost). 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_U-106
Title: Re: U-106 discovered onbottom of northsea
Post by: VirtualSkipper on March 16, 2011, 21:33:43
She had already been found but it took until this month to identify her.  ;)