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Tosun Saral
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MS U 25

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Post by Tosun Saral » 21 Aug 2016, 19:59

MS U 25 am Bosporus Trabya
Who can give more information about this U boot and other KuK MSU's operating on the Turkish waters
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Re: MS U 25

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Post by Dr Eisvogel » 30 Oct 2016, 12:46

Tosun Saral wrote:MS U 25 am Bosporus Trabya
Who can give more information about this U boot and other KuK MSU's operating on the Turkish waters
Dear Mr. Saral,

you can clearly see that the U-boat in question flies the German war ensign.

So, for more details about this particular U-boat (Austrian U-25) you should search for its original identity as German minelayer U-boat SM UC 13.

It was built by AG Weser shipyard in Bremen, Germany.

Its commander was Oberleutnant zur See Johannes Kirchner.
http://uboat.net/wwi/men/commanders/141.html

Some of the German U-boats from Deutsche U-Halbflottille/U-Flottille Pola, which was based in Pula (Pola) and Kotor (Cattaro), were flying Austro-Hungarian war enigns and had Austro-Hungarian codes assigned to them especially in the period before Italy declared war on Germany, in August 1916.

The book by Hermann Lorey, Der Krieg zur See 1914 - 1918. Der Krieg in den türkischen Gewässern. Band 1: Die Mittelmeer-Division, published in Berlin in 1928, explains that Austria-Hungary declined the German request to send its own U-boats to Dardanelles, so German U-boats from U-Halbflottille Pola were sent instead.

For on-line research, you can start with this article:
http://www.gallipoli1915.de/u-21

On the following link in Croatian language you can check which Austro-Hungarian U-boats were in fact German U-boats flying the Austro-Hungarian war ensign:
https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popis_aus ... m_zastavom

Best regards,
Eisvogel


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Post by Tosun Saral » 04 Nov 2016, 08:16

Eisvogel I thank you for your kind information. Grüsse

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