While in hospital recently, researcher Norman Field read a copy of our KTB Magazine (the KTB is everywhere!) and he sent a list of the TYPE VII boats involved in this operation, which we run here.

BOAT	TYPE	REMARKS
U-218	VII-D	Sunk in tow 8.9 miles off Inishtrall Light
U-244	VII-C	Scuttled 29 Dec 1945 at 55.46N x 8.32W
U-245	VII-C	Sunk as target for aircraft on 7 December 1945 at 55.25N x 6.19W
U-249	VII-C	Sunk as target by HMS TANTIVY 13 December 1945 at 56.10N x 10.05W
U-255	VII-C	Sunk as target for aircraft on 13 December, 1945at 55.50N x 10.50W. U-255 was the 1st U-Boat fitted with a fixed snorkel mast.
U-256	VII-C	The boat was decommissioned in Bergen by the U-Waffe on 23 Oct 1944 & scrapped by the Allies sometime in 1945.

‘DEADLIGHT’ not so dead?

Perhaps not, according to an article in the Washington JOURNAL sent by CHARLES EVERETT (2187-1992) which reads:

BRITS TO SALVAGE 100 GERMAN U-BOATS

“London - A fleet consisting of more than 100 German U-Boats that were sunk off the North Irish coast after WW II is to be salvaged by the British. The submarines which are laying at about 100 meters depth, have old metals worth up to 1.7 million pounds.”