Saturday news

By tk
Saturday, June 21, 2003

*Limehouse Bridge opening delayed so politicians can gather
-Charleston Post and Courier, 6-21-03

*Beaufort Yacht & Sailing Club prepares for this weekend's Lowcountry Regatta
-Beaufort Gazette, 6-21-03

*Time to sweat: summer in Savannah
-Savannah Morning News, 6-21-03

*Campaign calls on public to keep beaches clean, safe
*Changes needed for evacuation route
-Brunswick News, 6-20-03

*Cumberland Island unchanged by time
*St. Marys announces fun day of July 4 festivities
-Kings Bay Periscope, 6-19-03

*Alligator that killed 12-year-old caught, removed from Dead River
*Alligator tragedy proves Florida still a wild place
*After jumping through hoops, Marineland lively again
-Daytona News Journal, 6-21-03

*Mark O'Brien: Time for county to help Pensacola Beach look at safety problems
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-21-03

U-Boat U-482, Success, then lost with all hands.

This Type VII boat was commissioned on the 1st. of December 1943. Under the command of Kapitan Leutnant Hartmut Graf von Matuschka aged 29, U-482 carried out two patrols, having sailed on the 14th. of August 1944, this U-Boat commander from the 30th. of August to the 8th. of September carried out the most productive patrol of any Type VII boat in 1944.

From three separate convoys he accounted for 5 ships totalling 32,671 tons. The British Empire Heritage of 15,702 tons, loaded with Sherman tanks destined for the European front, they lay strewn across the seabed off Donegal Ireland, the wreck having been dived upon at a depth of just over 60 metres, and some dramatic underwater photographs of these tanks still intact at this distance from WW2, have been taken by Leigh Bishop in 2002.

The rescue ship Pinto of 1,300 tons.
Then the American Tanker Jacksonville of 10,400 tons and the Norwegian freighter Fiordheim of 4,100 tons were sunk, finally the British Corvette Hurst Castle became a victim.

On a second patrol to the North Channel which commenced on the 18th. of November, it was not until the following January, that the British Jeep Carrier Thane, ferrying aircraft from Northern Ireland was badly damaged. She was towed to safety, but was never repaired and saw out the war being laid up. The 7,400 ton Norwegian tanker Spinanger was also damaged by U-482.

It was subsequently reported, that on the following day, the 16th. of January 1945, ships of the British 22nd. Escort Group made up of Peacock, Hart, Starling, Lock Craggie and Amethyest hunted down U-482, to destroy her with all hands.

A more recent assessment.
The British Admiralty, in a more recent assessment about the destruction of U-482, have now stated that the cause of her loss is unknown. But the most probable cause is: She sank with all hands after striking a mine.

Thus the actual cause of U-482's demise is unlikely to ever be uncovered, as she became yet another victim in the long running saga of The Battle of The Atlantic.