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Soviet ships sunk by the Luftwaffe
In making a post on the axishistoryforum.com Soviet Union 1917-1945 section about Soviet ship losses in WW II for the database of ships sunk by the Luftwaffe I was directed to :
www.navy.su/other/lost/index.htm which is in Russian which my computor can translate into English. There is a slight problem with some ships you get the English translation of the Russian name like the destroyer Bistry as Fast. I hope this is of some use . I also made some questions about Luftwaffe attacks mentioned on the data base Here are some of the replies: 30 Oct 41 III/StG 77 Noupatoria 2 ships sunk reply say could be the merchant ship Uralles reported sunk off Evpatoria on 29 Oct 41 and the guard boat SKA-045 sunk on 31 Oct 41 off Ak-Mechet 30 Oct 41 III/KG 55 Kerch 2 ships sunk and 2 damaged reply no ships sunk 15 Jan 43 4(F)/122 Gelendshik R-boot sunk reply Gelendshik bombed but no ships sunk 1 mar 44 Kerch straits 5 boats destroyed reply no known losses could be really small boats I would also like to point out in the above list it has a number of Soviet ships sunk by mines which were most likely dropped by German aircraft. Also in my research on Soviet ship losses there are conflicting accounts 2 Aug 42 the Soviet Cruiser Molotov was damaged by a torpedo hit the German and Russian accounts say the ship was attacked by Italian MASs and there torpedos missed and the ship was hit by 6/KG 26. The italians say the Molotov was hit by a MAS torpedo see Warship 2009 for the accounts. |
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There is a Soviet ship (Бронекатер БК-244, or BK-244 of the Soviet Danube Flotilla) in the middle of the Danube at Medve (near Győr) at the Hungarian-Slovakian border. The ship ran on a(n aerial?) mine on April 3, 1945 and sank with 8 casualties. The top of the wreck became visible for a short period of time at very low water level a few months ago. (This mine could be dropped by RAF/SAAF Wellington Xs/Liberators still in 1944 as well.)
See pic: https://i.postimg.cc/hGC3py0c/BK-244-in-Danube.jpg Gabor |
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I recall that in mid 1943 there was a kind of SonderKdo (Kertsch?) deployed to the Crima pensinsula with some Ju88A with Funkmessgeräte (like FuG200) for hunting soviet ships by day and night and working together with Axis naval forces.
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I wrote an article about the use of FuG213 Lichtenstein and later FuG200 Hohentwiel on the Black Sea. I hope it will be published in the foreseeable future. Germans had some interesting ideas about the interaction of surface target acquisition radar aircraft with Schnellboote and U-Boote. But their implementation encountered a number of problems, and the results didn't meet expectations. Successes in antisubmarine warfare were even more modest. As a means of night recce, they brought benefits in general, but due to large navigational errors in some cases they hindered the U-Boote or S-Boote rather than helped. These conclusions relate only to the Black Sea. Best regards, Andrey |
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On the Soviet Merchant ship Abkhazia sunk in the Black Sea on 10 June 1942 by Lt Herbert Klein of I/KG 100. Warship 2009 article on Italian Fast Costal Forces has the ship being torpedoed and damaged the night before by the MAS 571. The War Diary Admiral Black Sea seems to think this happened. Chronik Des Seekrieg 1939-1945 has the ship being attacked by the MAS 573.
Fast Coastal Forces also has the MAS 527 sinking the Soviet Gunboat Bira 15 August 1942 on Lake Lagoda. The source on Soviet losses and Chronik both have the ship being sunk in the Baltic by a mine on 26 Aug 1942 Another Italain |
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Hello James,
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Best regards, Andrey |
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Thanks Andrey I will try and read your article on radar in the Black Sea when it comes out.
typo the Bira was sunk by a mine on 23 Aug 42 no 26 Aug. |
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Thanks Evgeny.
The above lost list has some Soviet ships sunk in the Caspian Sea by German aircraft. Not mentioned in BCRS vol 3 (MK I) 26 Oct 42 tanker America and merchant vessel Drunker at Astrakhan 29 Oct 42 Shalanda No 21 in the Volga-Caspain Canal 30 Oct 42 tanker Comintern off Astrakhan 15 Nov 42 tanker Kilbekov off Astrakhan Any ideas what units probably Ju-88s or He-111s |
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