1 U-Boat and Italian Submarine Attacks in Bahamas and Bermuda Triangle February 1942 – December 1944 MAPS, DIAGRAMS, CHARTS OF: U-BOATS SUNK BY ALLIES MERCHANT AND WAR SHIPS SUNK BY AXIS LOCATIONS WHERE SURVIVORS LANDED INTERLOCKING CONVOY ROUTES THROUGH BAHAMAS Eric T. Wiberg, Esq., www.uboatsbahamas.com [email protected]/ Mob: 1 (203) 856 9677 January 2010
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U-Boat and Italian Submarine Attacks in Bahamas and Bermuda Triangle
February 1942 – December 1944
MAPS, DIAGRAMS, CHARTS OF:
U-BOATS SUNK BY ALLIESMERCHANT AND WAR SHIPS SUNK BY AXISLOCATIONS WHERE SURVIVORS LANDED
U-Boats Sunk in Bahamas Region 1942-1943Eric T. Wiberg, Esq., www.uboatsbahamas.com, Jan. 2010
U-157, Wolf Henne, 13 June 1942, 24.13N / 82.03 W, all 52 killed: US Coast Guard cutter USS Thetis based Key West and patrolling Straits of Florida
U-158, Erwin Rostin, 29 June 1942, 32.50N / 67.28 W, all 54 killed including Spanish merchant
skipper (guest): US Mariner aircraft USN VP-74 from Bermuda vectored by U-158's radio telling of the EVERALDA sinking
U-94, Otto Ites, 28 August 1942, 17.40N / 74.30 W, 19 killed, 26 rescued by US Navy. Sunk by a VP2
aircraft’s and depth charges and ramming by Canadian Flower Class Corvette Oakville U-176 Reiner Dierksen, 14 May 1943, 23.21N / 80.18 W, all 56 killed: sunk by Cuban Patrol Boat CS-
13 vectored in by US Mariner aircraft protecting convoy
U-359 Hienz Förster, 26 July 1943, 18.06N / 75.00 W, all 47 killed: American Mariner aircraft (VP Squadron 32, P-12)
U-159 Heinz Beckmann, 28 July, 1943, 15.57N / 68.30 W, all 53 killed: US Mariner Aircraft VP-32/P-1 U-179 Rudolf Friedrich, 15 July 1943, 15.58N / 73.44W, all 47 killed: US Mariner aircraft, P-10, VP-32 U-84 Horst Uphoff, 6 August 1943, 27.55N / 68.30 W, all 46 killed: American Liberator aircraft VB-
105/B-4 USN
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Survivors of U-Boat Attacks Landed in Bahamas Island 1940-1944Eric T. Wiberg, Esq., www.uboatsbahamas.com, Jan. 2010
Survivors of U-Boat Attacks Landed in Bahamas Island 1940-1944Eric T. Wiberg, Esq., www.uboatsbahamas.com, Jan. 2010
ANGLO SAXONUK
41 39 2after over 100 days at sea only 2 survivors land Eleuthera
O.A. KNUDSEN 11007 Norway 34 2 32survivors landed in Abaco by local schooner, then by Govt steamer to Nassau minus one crew died/buried Abaco
KOLLSKEGG 9,858 Norway 42 4 38 crew rescued by BUSHRANGER, met up with KOLL survivors, taken to Halifax
ATHELQUEEN 8,780 UK 49 3 46 Crew row ashore Hope Town Abaco where 3 drown/buried
DAYTONIAN 6,434 UK 59 1 58 58 (landed in Nassau, Bahamas then Miami)
POTLATCH 6,085 US 55 8 47survivors drifted for 26 days, landed Great Inagua, then Little Inagua, then Acklins, where rescued by VERGERMERE, taken promptly to Nassau
BUSHRANGER 4,536 Panama
took survivors from KOLLSKEG to Nassau Apr. 11, 42
VINELAND 5,587 Canada 35 1 34 Master Robert A. Williams and 33 others landed "at Turks Island" - Grand Turk?
ABGARA 4,422 Latvian 34 0 34 torpedoed just 15 miles SE of Great Inagua
CYGNET 3,628 Greek 35 0 35 30 or so survivors must have landed at San Salvador 5 miles to the West
FAUNA 1,254 Dutch 29 2 27 Presumed to have landed in Turks & Caicos
VIVIEN P. SMITH 130 UK 11 0 11 Turks & Caicos are nearest land and downwind from them
VERGERMERE UK 47 survivors of Potlatch taken from Acklins to Nassau in 2-3 days
K-74 (USN Blimp) US 10 1 9 9 picked up off North Elbow Cay by USS SC 657, USS Destroyer DAHLGREN
YP 453 (Yard Patrol Vsl) US 22 0 22 average crew size 22, all presumed rescued
SC 1059 (Sub Chaser) US 28 0 28 average crew size 28, all presumed rescued
USS WARRINGTON US321
248 735 officers and 68 seamen picked up by US navy vessels presumably from the US. Survivors either landed more likely a port in the SE US, particularly in the interest of keeping the loss secret.