Tag: Battle of the Caribbean
SS Norlandia, sunk by U-575 under Heydemann, July 3rd 1942, north of the DR, survivors landed at Samana, DR
U-201 Bahamas patrol April 1942: sank Derryheen & San Jacinto under Ali Schnee
SS Nicarao, sunk of Eleuthera by U-571 under Bigalk in May, 1942
by Eric Wiberg
SS Montevideo, Uruguayan neutral sunk by Italian sub Tazolli under di Cossato in March 1942 NE of Puerto Rico
by Eric Wiberg
U-190 under Max Wintermeyer had fruitless patrol NE of Abaco, Eleuthera July 1943
SS Milinocket, sunk by U-126 under Ernst Bauer 17 June 1942: there is a placque to dead sailors in Sagua la Grande Cuba
by Eric Wiberg
U-183 under Korvettenkapitän Heinrich Schäfer, a Type IXC4 U-boat transited Bahamas February 1943
by Eric Wiberg
U-172 patrolled east of Bahamas, sank City of Alma, then north of Greater Antilles, under Carl Emmermann,
by Eric Wiberg
U-171 under Gunther Pfeffer, transited Bahamas from Bermuda to Caribbean Sea in mid July 1942, no ships sunk Bahamas
U-170 under Kapitänleutnant Günther Pfeffer, patrolled of Eleuthera, San Salvador, Anegada in March 1942
U-161 under Albrecht Achilles on its 2nd of 2 patrols through Bahamas. Used the Mona Passage end July 1942
by Eric Wiberg
U-159’s 1st patrol to Bahamas, under Helmut Witte, who sank the US SS Illinois east of Bahamas in early June 1942
Ernst Kals of U-130 sank Grenanger, Esso Boston east of Bahamas in April 1942
U-129 4th of 4 patrols to Bahamas under Richard von Harpe, Dec. 1943 (it sank Libertad off Hatteras not in the Bahamas)
U-129 patrol 3 of 4 to Bahamas – Hans-Ludwig Witt, sank the Santa Catalina & Melbourne Star
Ulrich Heyse in U-128 was the first commander to sink ships in the Bahamas area, starting with the O A Knudsen March 5, 1942 off Abaco
by Eric Wiberg
Kapitänleutnant Ernst Bauer who sank 10 ships in the Bahamas area in 1942
by Eric Wiberg
Colabee, struck by U-126 under Ernst Bauer grounded Cuba, salvaged – 23 crew were killed in rush to escape
British SS Clan Skene, sunk by Peter-Erich Cremer in U-333 on 10 May 1942 NE of Bahamas – 9 perished
little Dominican schooner Carmen sunk off the DR by U-166 under Hans-Gunther Kuhlmann on 11 July 1942
by Eric Wiberg