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After sinking over 11,000 tons of shipping SMS U-6 met her end off Stavenger, Norway when HMS E-16 saw the smoke coming from her engines while they were charging their batteries. A well placed torpedo sank the boat leaving only five survivors in the water, the commanding officer of E-16, Lt. Commander (later Vice Admiral) Cecil P. Talbot, D.S.O., maneuvered his boat into position and rescued the men in the water. The twenty-four other crewmen of U-6, including the commanding officer, went down with the boat. Photos were taken of the rescue of the German seamen and these photos were later used by the British press to show the compassion of the British toward the German enemy following the Baralong Incident. |
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Sept. 15, 1915: Crewmen of SMS U-6 being picked up by HMS E-16. (More photos can be seen here) |
(Photo from the collection of Vice Admiral Sir Cecil Ponsonby Talbot, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O.) Courtesy of Colonel John Talbot |
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In Erinnerung an die gefallenen Besatzungsmitglieder der SMS
U-6 |
"In the memory of the fallen crewmen of SMS U-6" |
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Rate |
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Courvoisier, K. |
U-Funktelegrafie Gast |
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Emmerich, H. |
U-Oberheizer (der Reserve) |
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Fischer, Wilhelm |
U-Matrose |
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Gödeke, Wilhelm |
U-Heizer |
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Hagemann, B. |
U-Heizer |
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Heimer, Wilhelm |
U-Maschinistenmaat |
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Heinze, Walter |
U-Oberheizer |
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Kath, Gustav |
U-Maschinist (Anwärter) |
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Kurbjuweit, W. |
U-Maschinist (Anwärter) |
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Kurschus, Janis |
U-Obermatrose |
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Laschinski, G. |
U-Maschinistenmaat |
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Lembcke, Karl |
U-Maschinistenmaat |
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Lepsius, Reinhold |
Oberleutnant zur See |
Commanding Officer |
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Martini, Franz |
U-Oberbootsmannsmaat |
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Mester, Henry |
U-Matrose |
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Miller, Ludwig |
U-Maschinistenmaat |
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Musterer, August |
U-Ober Funktelegrafie Obergast (der Resreve)
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Pichlau, Otto |
U-Maschinist |
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Poppe, Karl |
U-Maschinistenmaat |
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Reinicke, Gottlieb |
Oberleutnant zur See |
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Sachs, Hermann |
U-Obermaschinist (Anwärter) |
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Sommer, Wilhelm |
U-Heizer |
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Volberg, Robert |
U-Obersteuermann |
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Wachsmuth, W. |
U-Maschinist (Anwärter) |
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