Alan Roberts investigates the short life of former Raikeswood Camp detainee Claus Lafrenz. It was sheer bad luck. British Naval Intelligence said Claus Lafrenz had been overconfident. He had seen the submarine half an hour before. He was in a hurry to get back to base to start his leave and was looking forward to shooting some hares and ducks on his island home. The force of the explosion blew him high into the air causing severe bruising to his chest when he landed. Over twenty crewmen would perish and only a handful would survive. U-boat prisoners were routinely interrogated by British Naval Intelligence at Cromwell Gardens which was immediately opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington.
Alan Roberts writes. GERMAN crewmen prepared to leap into the freezing waters off the coast of southern Ireland after a successful attack by two American destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson. The German crew was wearing primitive life jackets as the men made their way to safety on the American ship. Many were in a very weak condition. One man could not hold on to the lifeline that had been thrown to help him. Two American sailors heroically dived into the water to rescue him, but he died shortly after being brought on board USS Fanning. Lieutenant Friedrich Müller, one of four officers on board U-58, spent just over a month at Skipton Camp before being shipped across the Atlantic to a prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia.
Alan Roberts writes. GERMAN crewmen prepared to leap into the freezing waters off the coast of southern Ireland after a successful attack by two American destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson. The German crew was wearing primitive life jackets as the men made their way to safety on the American ship. Many were in a very weak condition. One man could not hold on to the lifeline that had been thrown to help him. Two American sailors heroically dived into the water to rescue him, but he died shortly after being brought on board USS Fanning. Lieutenant Friedrich Müller, one of four officers on board U-58, spent just over a month at Skipton Camp before being shipped across the Atlantic to a prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia.