Talk:Albrecht Brandi

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The U617 beached at Spanish Morocco Coast on 12 sep 1943. It was attacked by a) 2 Vickers Wellington from 179 Sqn.

                                                                              b) 2 Lockheed Hudson from 48 Sqn
                                                                              c) Corvette HMS Hyacinth K84
                                                                              d) Minesweeper HMAS Wollongong
                                                                              e) Trawler  Haarlem
                                                                              f) 1 Fairey Swordfish from Fleet Air Arm

but not by Short Sunderland. The previous day had sunk HMS Puckeridge off Gibraltar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.39.118.236 (talk) 21:52, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

"He also damaged the battleship HMS Rodney and the two aircraft carriers HMS Illustrious and HMS Formidable. " Where do you find these information? I think it's not true Siałababamak (talk) 19:17, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Ships purportedly attacked

Moving here as unreliably cited to a self-published web site:

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As commander of U-617, U-380 and U-967, Brandi claimed, and was credited with, sinking 20 ships of 115,000 gross register tons (GRT), 3 cruisers and 12 destroyers. Although ships sunk in the Mediterranean were doubled for award purposes, and extra credit was given for sinking warships, Brandi's actual sinkings were "startlingly less" according to Blair. The verifiable total was:

• 8 ships sunk for a total of 25,879 GRT
• 1 auxiliary warship sunk for a total of 810 GRT
• 3 warships sunk for a total of 5,000 long tons (5,100 tonnes)

Date	U-boat	Name of Ship	Nationality	Tonnage	Fate
7 September 1942	U-617	Tor II	Faroe Islands	292	Sunk at 62°30′N 18°30′W
23 September 1942	U-617	Athelsultan	United Kingdom	8,882	Sunk at 58°42′N 33°38′W
23 September 1942	U-617	Tennessee	United Kingdom	2,342	Sunk at 58°40′N 33°41′W
24 September 1942	U-617	Roumanie	Belgium	3,563	Sunk at 58°10′N 28°20′W
28 December 1942	U-617	HMS St. Issey (W25)	Royal Navy	810	Sunk at 32°37′N 20°22′E
15 January 1943	U-617	Annitsa	Greece	4,324	Sunk at 33°02′N 21°58′E
15 January 1943	U-617	Harboe Jensen	Norway	1,862	Sunk at 33°04′N 21°50′E
1 February 1943	U-617	HMS Welshman (M84)	Royal Navy	2,650	Sunk at 32°12′N 24°52′E
5 February 1943	U-617	Corona	Norway	3,264	Sunk at 32°11′N 24°46′E
5 February 1943	U-617	Henrik	Norway	1,350	Sunk at 32°11′N 24°46′E
6 September 1943	U-617	HMS Puckeridge	Royal Navy	1,050	Sunk at 36°06′N 4°44′W
5 May 1944	U-967	USS Fechteler (DE-157)	United States Navy	1,300	Sunk at 36°07′N 2°40′W

References

K.e.coffman (talk) 00:43, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

What exactly is your problem? The claims have been checked against actual sinkings and the results published. I don't see why the list should not be reliable. ÄDA - DÄP VA (talk) 08:32, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

@ÄDA - DÄP: Are these ships being cited to Blair then? From the way the cites are presented, it looked to me that they were being cited to uboat.net. K.e.coffman (talk) 02:12, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

@K.e.coffman: Uboat.net is using Blair as a source among others, mostly Busch/Röll (2001) and the like. I find the site the most accurate, ubiased, uptodate, accessible English-language source on German submarines, so maybe you want to raise the issue with the Reliable Sources noticeboard. ÄDA - DÄP VA (talk) 09:56, 8 November 2016 (UTC)