UBoat sunk by Cuban Navy?
UBoat sunk by Cuban Navy?
Can someone please tell me which UBoat was sunk by the Cuban Navy during WW2
Andy H
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I am quite sorry Andy-H. I haven´t found anything on the Cuban-Navy sinking any U-boats off it´s coast. But I have found some articles pertaining to U-boat operations near the Island...
http://www.pastfoundation.org/U166/U-166Patrol.htm
Two days later bigger game appeared, the 2,309-tom U.S. steam freighter Oneida, off the eastern tip of Cuba. Kuhlmann sent her to the bottom...On the evening of July 16, 1942, about thirty miles northeast of Havana, U-166 encountered an ancient and tiny motorized fishing vessel called Gertrude...and undoubtedly caused a few chuckles, especially when readers learned that the trawler's cargo consisted of twenty tons of onions !
http://www.navalships.org/u166.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ETO/Ult ... 008-7.html
http://reference.allrefer.com/country-g ... ds238.html
German U-boat threat in the Caribbean during World War II clearly demonstrated the vulnerability of the Caribbean sea-lanes to interdiction and of the refineries to attack. The Nazi submarines wreaked havoc on shipping even though they were few in number, never totaling more than a dozen, and operated in the area without benefit of friendly regional ports or air cover. Moreover, during the war the United States could avail itself fully of Cuba as a naval base and source of supply
http://www.lajiribilla.cu/2002/n78_novi ... 24_78.html
The German submarines began appearing in the Romano Key starting in 1942. In one night alone they sank the tanker Texan and the cargo ship Olga. They sank these ships in a strait between the Lobo lighthouse and Confites Key, in a place where the channel was just twelve miles wide. The submariners began their hunt March 12, 1942.
A few months later Hemingway found himself preparing his yacht, the Pilar, for one of the most surprising adventures undertaken by any writer in this century: to catch a German submarine when it surfaced, tie it to his yacht, board it, and seize it with grenades, small arms and machine gun fire, in order to learn any valuable information possible from the capture. As soon as he learned the Germans had sunk two ships in Romano Key, Hemingway embarked on his yacht, with his fearless companions, armed with anti-tank guns, hand grenades, explosives, machine guns and pistols, from the west coast of Cuba to those channels he had explored in the company of Jane Mason and Carlos Gutiérrez years before.
Upon arriving at Romano Key, Hemingway knew all the details about what had happened: the ships had been sailing at night, and had been surprised by the torpedo strikes. The submarines were indeed in the zone; it wasn't just the imagination of old fishermen in the area. The turtle fishermen said that on some nights they had seen submarines close to the bluffs, and sometimes during the day submarines had even been seen above water. The locals had sometimes seen the sailors leave the submarines and go ashore looking for notable water: on the island of Turiguanó, Sabinal, and Paredón Grande. Early one morning the Germans had docked at Coco Key. The reports were almost paralyzing: how could it he that German submarines were sinking boats right off the coast of Camagüey?
http://www.pastfoundation.org/U166/U-166Patrol.htm
Two days later bigger game appeared, the 2,309-tom U.S. steam freighter Oneida, off the eastern tip of Cuba. Kuhlmann sent her to the bottom...On the evening of July 16, 1942, about thirty miles northeast of Havana, U-166 encountered an ancient and tiny motorized fishing vessel called Gertrude...and undoubtedly caused a few chuckles, especially when readers learned that the trawler's cargo consisted of twenty tons of onions !
http://www.navalships.org/u166.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ETO/Ult ... 008-7.html
http://reference.allrefer.com/country-g ... ds238.html
German U-boat threat in the Caribbean during World War II clearly demonstrated the vulnerability of the Caribbean sea-lanes to interdiction and of the refineries to attack. The Nazi submarines wreaked havoc on shipping even though they were few in number, never totaling more than a dozen, and operated in the area without benefit of friendly regional ports or air cover. Moreover, during the war the United States could avail itself fully of Cuba as a naval base and source of supply
http://www.lajiribilla.cu/2002/n78_novi ... 24_78.html
The German submarines began appearing in the Romano Key starting in 1942. In one night alone they sank the tanker Texan and the cargo ship Olga. They sank these ships in a strait between the Lobo lighthouse and Confites Key, in a place where the channel was just twelve miles wide. The submariners began their hunt March 12, 1942.
A few months later Hemingway found himself preparing his yacht, the Pilar, for one of the most surprising adventures undertaken by any writer in this century: to catch a German submarine when it surfaced, tie it to his yacht, board it, and seize it with grenades, small arms and machine gun fire, in order to learn any valuable information possible from the capture. As soon as he learned the Germans had sunk two ships in Romano Key, Hemingway embarked on his yacht, with his fearless companions, armed with anti-tank guns, hand grenades, explosives, machine guns and pistols, from the west coast of Cuba to those channels he had explored in the company of Jane Mason and Carlos Gutiérrez years before.
Upon arriving at Romano Key, Hemingway knew all the details about what had happened: the ships had been sailing at night, and had been surprised by the torpedo strikes. The submarines were indeed in the zone; it wasn't just the imagination of old fishermen in the area. The turtle fishermen said that on some nights they had seen submarines close to the bluffs, and sometimes during the day submarines had even been seen above water. The locals had sometimes seen the sailors leave the submarines and go ashore looking for notable water: on the island of Turiguanó, Sabinal, and Paredón Grande. Early one morning the Germans had docked at Coco Key. The reports were almost paralyzing: how could it he that German submarines were sinking boats right off the coast of Camagüey?
15 May 1943 U-176 was sunk by the Cuban subchaser CS-13 north-east of Havana.
http://www.uboat.net/boats/u176.htm
http://www.ubootwaffe.net/ops/boat.cgi?boat=176
http://www.uboat.net/boats/u176.htm
http://www.ubootwaffe.net/ops/boat.cgi?boat=176
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Re: UBoat sunk by Cuban Navy?
The Cuban Navy SubChaser SC-13 actions on May 15th, 1943 ended up with the sinking of u-176. Cuba was the only latinamerican country that was able to sink an uboat. *Other countries claimed having sunk uboats (Brasil, Colombia, etc) , but after the allies got hands on the Unterseeboot operations documents and archives, the only one proven was the case of the u-176.
This is a not very known story. Cuban navy participated in search & rescue operations, convoy escorts, anti-submarine warfare actions, and was described as the most valuable-helpful country in for the Allies in America, just beside Canada.
English version of two books of project reports about the investigation of the actions on May 15, 1943, will be available soon. Stay tuned to our website u-176.com , and our facebook page U-176 MUSEUM-INSTITUTE FOR WAR STUDIES, here you will get the information on when the books comes out., and several other details.
Thanks.
Osvaldo L. Cangas
Dir.
U-176 MUSEUM-INSTITUTE FOR WAR STUDIES.
This is a not very known story. Cuban navy participated in search & rescue operations, convoy escorts, anti-submarine warfare actions, and was described as the most valuable-helpful country in for the Allies in America, just beside Canada.
English version of two books of project reports about the investigation of the actions on May 15, 1943, will be available soon. Stay tuned to our website u-176.com , and our facebook page U-176 MUSEUM-INSTITUTE FOR WAR STUDIES, here you will get the information on when the books comes out., and several other details.
Thanks.
Osvaldo L. Cangas
Dir.
U-176 MUSEUM-INSTITUTE FOR WAR STUDIES.