JEWISH TIME

Jerusalem Post;  October 15, 2004 ;     277 words ......The 29,150-ton British battleship Royal Oak was sunk by German submarines with the loss of 800 men and ratings. * The British Navy...According to French sources since the beginning of the war 18 German submarines were sunk by the Allied planes and warships. * A German...

Sailors gather to mark anniversary of Battle of the Atlantic

AP Worldstream;  May 4, 2003 ;     316 words ......1945, Britain's Royal Navy patrolled the seas in search of German submarines, which threatened the flow of vital supplies to Britain...the Atlantic, including some 29,000 German submariners. German submarines had tried to put a stranglehold on Britain, blocking food...

Thursday, February 16

AP Worldstream;  February 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ......two years. 1918 - England's port of Dover is bombarded by German submarines in World War I. 1923 - The burial chamber of King Tutankhamen...from the military later leads to Spanish Civil War. 1942 - German submarines fire upon oil refineries in Aruba, Dutch West Indies, during...

Secrets of a German U-boat

New Straits Times;  June 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ......cruiser (AMC) but he knew all about the German submarines, which called at Penang, as he was...Trinkaus recalled. As many as 15 German submarines, he said, had called at Penang during...and sailors in Penang. These show German submarines at Swettenham Pier, German sailors...

Israel worried about possible sale of advanced German submarines to Egypt

Jerusalem Post;  November 19, 2008 ;     466 words ...Headline: Israel worried about possible sale of advanced German submarines to Egypt Byline: YAAKOV KATZ Edition; Daily Section: News...they were concerned by Egypt's request to purchase the German submarines. Egypt's navy has a larger fleet than Israel, including...

"Lizzie Ann": The log of the famed Block Island ferry

Sea Classics;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......every third day. At Gibraltar, two German submarines were reported in the straits and...Barrage," successfully bottling up the German submarines in the Adriatic Sea. From the first...and were credited with sinking two German submarines. After the Armistice was signed...

German Submarines Start 1st Post-War Cross-Atlantic

Xinhua English Newswire;  April 1, 1997 ;     68 words ...For the first time since the end of World War II, two German submarines started to cross the Atlantic today for a training journey to the United States, news reports said. The two submarines, known as...

TORPEDO JUNCTION the cruelest sea

Sea Classics;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......suddenly became a lethal crossroad for German submarines and hapless Allied merchantmen In...encountered in the North Atlantic. Indeed, German submarines that autumn sank several American...American-operated ships encountered German submarines in early October, not only within...

UNDER THE SEA EXPLORER Find may be sunken German U-boat

The Boston Globe;  January 13, 1997 ;     461 words ......didn't want to frighten people by telling them there were German submarines right out there off our coast," said Greg Brooks, one of...of bodies washing ashore. Later, as the war ended, three German submarines surfaced to surrender at Porstmouth, N.H. An Italian submarine...

F. Jaicks, ex-Inland chief

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 13, 1998 ;     580 words ...Frederick Gillies Jaicks hunted German submarines, played against the Bears, worked as a pit boss in a...in 1944. He was stationed in Iceland, where he hunted German submarines. Later he served as a flight instructor. After the war...

Rinker on collectibles

Antiques & Collecting Magazine;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......especially at antique malls. This statement would not surprise anyone within the mercantile community. Shoplifting is so endemic within the mercantile community that most business included a "shoplifting loss" line item in their annual...

Strategic Assessment in War

Naval War College Review;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......to protect merchant shipping from German submarines. Despite heavy losses, and despite...wisdom goes, the tonnage sunk by German submarines was so great that even the mossbacks...the government) but the number of German submarines destroyed. The admirals believed...

U-boat Operations

Canadian Encyclopedia;      574 words ......Operations threatened Canada's sovereignty in 2 world wars. German submarines (Unterseeboote) first laid mines off Halifax and attacked...where she had destroyed the Esquimalt. MICHAEL L. HADLEY German submarines landed men in Qubec and Labrador twice during WORLD WAR...

Dog watches, destruction, and an enamel cup

Sea Power;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......fated WWII Convoy PQ-17, which was attacked in force by German submarines and aircraft in the summer of 1942. Among the various naval...about the destruction of the ships of convoy PQ- 17 by German submarines and torpedo-bombers. As it turned out, Murmanez proved...

A worst-case scenario.(LETTERS)

The Washington Times;  December 9, 2005 ;     371 words ......weapons by an Islamic nation and Israel. Israel doesn't need German submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles to respond. Israel...to reach Islamic cities from Morocco to Indonesia. The German submarines provide only an additional buffer to ensure that an Israeli...