Author & Historian, Eric T. Wiberg
Eric Wiberg is an author and historian living in Boston. He grew up in Nassau Bahamas to parents from Sweden and the US. From age 13 he attended New England boarding schools then Boston College before skippering a 68-foot sailing yacht from the Galapagos to New Zealand at age 23...
Check out my 2020 award winning short story: The Story of Gertrude H.
U-Boats in New England
Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape Sable.
Swan Sinks
The human element of a relatively small incident like the loss of the relatively small, 3530-ton Cygnet, is both compelling and illustrative of the larger, global struggle.
More Books by Eric Wiberg
DO NOT DELETE
Want more information?
If you'd like to learn more about the history of U-Boats in the Americas, browse my selection of in-depth accounts of U-Boat Patrols, Attack Narratives and much more in the Historical Resources section.
My Latest Posts
- Survivor Statements for U-Boats of New England & Bermuda December 1, 2020
- Survivor Statements for U-Boats Bahamas December 1, 2020
- Book review on uboat.net September 14, 2017
- Book Review by Soundings Magazine August 21, 2017
- Book Review by Bermuda’s The Royal Gazette August 21, 2017
- SS Nemanja of Yugoslavia sunk by U-84/Uphoff off Nova Scotia 7 April 1942; 13 KIA April 15, 2017
- M/S Molganger sunk by U-404 Bülow S of Nantucket, 9 men on rafts survive 48 days towards Azores April 15, 2017
- MS Mattawin sunk by U-553/Thurmann off Nantucket, all 71 survived; taken to Newport, Cape Cod, Halifax April 14, 2017
- SS Taborfjell, sunk by U-576/Heinicke off Cape Cod MA, British sub rescued 3 men, took to Canada March 25, 2017
- SS Skottland sunk off Nova Scotia by U-588/Vogel 17 May 1942, rescued by lobster boat OK Service IV March 25, 2017