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...
U-Boats in the Bahamas
The untold story of over 250 men who made it ashore in the Bahamas from 130 Allied ships sunk by 112 German and Italian submarine patrols in and around the Bahamas in World War II.
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.
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My Latest Posts
- 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
- MT Ranja sunk SE of Nantucket by U-71/Flachsenberg on March 17, 1942 March 25, 2017
- MV Malayan Prince grazed by torpedo of U-432/Schultze 9 June 1942 off Canada March 19, 2017