Daily Event for July 11, 2005


July 11, 1917 was the last time anyone heard from SMS U-69. The U-66 type submarine was built at Germainawerft in Kiel and had made five successful war patrols, sinking 31 ships totaling 102,875 tons,
the largest being the British ship Avenger, at 13,441 tons (June 14, 1917). U-69 had only one commander, Kapitänleutnant Ernst Wilhelms, who was lost with the forty members of his crew. No explanation has been made for the loss of this boat.
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MaritimeQuest.com



Roll of Remembrance
Zum Gedenken an die Gefallenen des Unterseeboot SMS U-69
"In the memory of the fallen crewmen of submarine SMS U-69"

Name
Rate
Boese, Adolf
U-Matrose
Borchert
U-Matrose
Brehe, August
U-Maschinist
Breitsprecher
U-Obermatrose
Dibbern, Wilhelm
U-Maschinistenmaat d.Res
Dieckmann, Friedrich
U-Maschinistenmaat
Einenkel, Paul
U-Maschinist Anw
Fehd, Max
U-Matrose
Gralka
U-F.T.Gast
Grams
U-Oberheizer
Haas, Heinrich
U-Oberheizer
Hauff, Harmann
U-Maschinistenmaat d.Res
Hennig, Willi
U-Steuermann
Hermann, Ernst
Marine Ober Ingenieur
Hildebrandt, H.
U-Matrose
Klunter, Albert
Obermatrose d.Res
Kress, Herbert
U-F.T.Gast
Kurzai, Paul
U-Oberheizer
Lang, Wilhelm
U-Heizer
Maas, Ernst
U-Obermaschinistenmaat
Möbius, Gustav
U-Heizer
Möller, Mathias
U-Maschinistenmaat
Müller
U-Maschinistenmaat
Polemann, Harry
U-Heizer
Reif, Englebert
U-Obermaschinistenmaat d.Res
Rensch, Konrad
U-Bootsmannsmaat
Rieve, Leopold
Leutnant zur See
Rittemann, K.
U-Heizer
Schall, Eduard
U-F.T.Gast
Schrott, Franz
U-Obermaschinistenmaat
Schütz, Ferdinand von
Oberleutnant zur See
Städtgen, Jakob
U-Maschinistenmaat
Stark, Hermann
U-Oberheizer
Steinkrauss, B.
U-Obermatrose
Teetz, Wilhelm
U-Maschinistenmaat
Thiessen, Karl
U-Obermatrose
Vollstädt, Max
U-Maschinist Anw
Vorschulze, Friedrich
U-Obermaschinistenmaat
Warlich, Johann
U-Obermaschinistenmaat
Wendenburg
U-Obermatrose
Wilhelms, Ernst
Kapitänleutnant
Commanding Officer


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