PETER goes on to tell us - "In addition to U-1230 under HILBIG (186-1986), there was also a single agent aboard U-1229 under Zinke, which was supposed to put him ashore in the Gulf of Maine, but U-1229 was sunk by aircraft from the carrier USS BOGUE on 20 August 1944 and thus Korvettenkapitan Armin Zinke's boat did not reach the coast and the intended landing place. While U-1230 under Kapitanleutnant HANS HILBIG had departed from Christiansand, Norway on 8 October 1944, returning to Norway the end of January 1945 when U-1230 was transferred to Germany for overhaul and maintenance because the very limited Norwegian port and service facilities were unable to manage that.

U-1230 was still in the Navy Yard in Wilhelmshaven when the war ended and was surrendered there in May of 1945 and transferred to Loch Ryan in Britain on 24 June for scuttling in Operation DEADLIGHT.

PETER comments on the claim by these guys in New England that their 'phantom U-boat' was using the US Coast Guard frequency to contact their homeport. "As far as using the radio frequencies of the Coast Guard, that is surely some misunderstanding or mistaken information, since these were neither generally known in Germany nor were they actually of much interest to tune in or keep under listening observation, though many U-boats did have one of their receivers tuned to the so-called 600 meter band frequency used by merchant ships for emergency and the like messages, but only if the U-boats were traveling on the surface and this is rather unlikely late in 1944 even in Mid-Atlantic in the former 'Gap' area, much less close to the Canadian or American coast within easy aircraft range when U-boats certainly would proceed snorkeling or dived, going slowly with electric power only and employing their listening devices instead -- but surely no radio frequency receivers as the only ones working and getting reception were the ones listening to the German Submarine main station in Kalbe on the river Milde, long waves, that one could receive dived up to 25 meters under the surface, so powerful was that station!

This high-powered long-wave radio station was located near Magdeburg but U-boats could not contact it - only listen to it and receive the transmissions. U-boats minimized any sort of transmissions and these were limited only to contacting U-boat Command, including weather reports, which were being demanded both by the Luftwaffe as well as the Army Command, much to the dislike, even dismay, of the U-boat Command and even more so the individual U-boat Captains who always suspected such messages could be picked up by transmission recording devices and Allied listening stations, to locate the U-boats, which was indeed the case to an even greater degree than the Germans ever suspected.

For these reasons, the short signals were introduced and flash sending equipment put into use. U-boats never bothered to imitate something else or to contact other places or stations pretending to be something else."

Background
by Harry Cooper

For those new to this story, there are two guys in New England that claim they located a 'phantom U-boat' sunk in 40 feet of water off Cape Cod. They claim that the Skipper was broadcasting to Uboat HQ on the US Coast Guard frequency and speaking in English! His mission was to resupply the German spy brigade in the area. There was no German spy group, no USCG transmission in English - and there was NO U-boat sunk there. What there was however, was a scam by these two guys to bilk money out of investors.

Peter Hansen spent time working for Abwehr (German intelligence) during WWII and holds information known to a mere handful of people. He sharesthis secret information especially with Sharkhunters.