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By *A proposal to build a time-share complex in Folly Field crashed Monday amid concerns about the traffic it would generate *Board rejects Folly Field time shares *More than 50 years after it opened, and 16 months after it closed, the St. Simons Island Casino is on the verge of being no more
http://www.news-journalonline.com/ I've been perusing your site again, which I often do. I noticed in your "letters" section that there's a note (May this year) from a Wilfrid J. Warner with regard to the sinking of Høegh Silverdawn. If you or Terry still have his E-mail address, I thought he might like to see my account on the sinking of this Norwegian vessel on this page Best wishes Oh - and I also noticed for the first time your account on the sinking of Ramses, you might be interested in seeing the story from "the other side", which can be found here http://www.warsailors.com/raidervictims/michel.html#flornesreport (on my page Siri Lawson
Thank you for your E-Mail, I am sure Terry will want to add links to your account, plus the Ramses one, on the appropriate pages. if you go to the Letters we receive Section, the top one from Ward Carr in Germany is about a German who also served in Ramses, he has unfortunately died recently, and I await his story of the action. I find it amazing that so long after an event, the sheer wonder and power of the internet can, and often does, shed new light upon a specific event. Where you have added a link to our site, my name is Mackenzie J Gregory, I am always having trouble with Mackenzie as a christian name, and the web site is called Mac's Web Log, perhaps as convenient you might like to make those two corrections thank you. Marauders of the Sea is a trilogy I have written covering the Southern Raiders of the American Civil War, and German Armed Raiders of WW1, and WW2, all of which appear on AHOY. I do not think I kept Wilfred's E-Mail address, which is a pity, I am sure he would enjoy the side of the story you have written. Best regards, TK, and dashed through the narrow entrance, the Norwegians closed in quickly behind her, blocking off the channel. Darkness fell as Cossack arrived, should there be no prisoners on board the German ship, then the Norwegian Torpedo boats had acted quite correctly, but, and it was a huge but, were there any British POW's aboard? British R.N.V.R. Officer takes the initiative. Absolute deadlock!!
The gist of this message was passed to the Norwegian officer, who was not moved by that argument. He was now told in no uncertain terms that time was important, we did not want German aircraft to intervene come daylight, Cossack was in a position to use her pom-poms on the Norwegian decks, whilst her torpedo tubes did not menace the British detroyer. Craven said that we would talk no longer, and were going to board and search Altmark, whether we had to fight the Norwegians or not. At this stage the Captain of Kjell, decided he could withdraw with honour, and did so. Altmark, came into view as Cossack steamed round a bend, her bows pointing inshore and covered in ice, against the snow covered mountains her stark black bulk made a striking contrast. The Captain of Altmark was not giving up easily, he came charging astern through the channel his passage through the ice had made, his searchlight trained on the destroyer's bridge to blind the personnel there. Disaster from collision was only avoided by some fancy manoeuvering by Maclean, Cossack's navigator. The leader of the boarding party, Lieutenant Bradwell Turner, in anticipation of Cossack going alongside Altmark, leapt across the gap between the two ships, this feat after the event became quite famous. Petty Officer Atkins in following his leader was not so adept with his leap, he finished up falling short, and hanging by his arms until Turner hoisted him on board. A hawser was secured between the two ships, and the rest of the boarding party stormed on board the German ship. On Altmark's bridge, Turner found the engine telegraphs ordering full speed, trying to run Cossack up on the shoreline, he rang stop. The German bridge officers generally surrendered, except for their Third Officer who tried to change the telegraphs once more, Turner was tempted but refrained from shooting him. ot fatal.? Altmark now grounded by her stern, Cossack casting off, just avoided a similar fate. With the German Captain giving up, Turner anticipated the release of any prisoners would be a routine affair, not so, an armed guard who was on board from Graf Spee, shot Gunner Smith from the boarding party in one of the ship's passageways, this armed guard took off fleeing across the ice, whence they sniped the boardiong party. This fire was soon stamped out, with six German dead, another six badly wounded, Gunner Smith the only British casualty, and his wounds luckily not fatal. Under locked hatches in the holds when these were broken open, groups of men were found, Turner shouted out " Any British down there?" The response a tremendous roar of:
From Turner now came his famous cry:
As Cossack was about to go alongside Altmark again, a body was seen close alongside, it was thought to be a British sailor who had fallen overboard, two officers promptly jumped into the freezing water to rescue him, the recovered body was dead, and then found to be a German, not wounded, but apparently had fallen through the ice when trying to escape ashore. By midnight all the prisoners were taken aboard Cossack, she cast off and made for the open sea. Another Admiralty signal ordered Vian:
Ship to be left inFiord." ( a ) Obviously applied, but with Altmark aground, and damaged, she could not be taken as a prize. At 0200 ( 2 AM ) another signal came in :
Cossack with her load of 13 ship's Captains and 286 officers and men were all landed safely at Leith the following evening, going ashore to a wonderful welcome At that time of the 1939-1945 war, it was known in UK as the "Phoney War" with very little to brighten anyone's day , this daring rescue, brilliantly carried out by Captain Philip Vian, Royal Navy and his crew was like a bright rainbow streaking across the sky after a severe and brutal storm. Lieutenant Craven was able to sort out the failure of the Norwegians to find the presence of British prisoners aboard Altmark, the Captain had told him, every time he was visdited, but not searched, he ran the winches to make a clatter, and hoses were played into the holds to drown out any efforts of the prisoners to make their presence heard. In 1945, one of the British Army Airborne Reconnaissance Squadrons visited the scene of this famous rescue operation, they found a double sided German signboard which read :
Towards the end of WW2, Vian commanded an Aircraft Carrier Squadron of the British Pacific Fleet. Philip Vian went on to become: Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Philip Vian. G.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O. Royal Navy. WREK BENEFIT CONCERT SEPTEMBER 26-27
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