Page 14 - USCG Chief Petty Officer Logbook

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Officers and men killed in encounter with the enemy on the night of September 26, 1918, when the Coast Guard cutter Tampa was destroyed in the Bristol Channel, supposedly by enemy torpedo, and was lost with all hands:
Commissioned officers 7 Warrant officers (one acting) 4 Enlisted men 100
U.S. Navy men
Royal Navy personnel
EXTRACT FROM WAR DIARY OF UB-91 (Concerning torpedoing of U.S.S. TAMPA on 26 September 1918)
Remarks
A single small steamer in sight on course about 0°, bearing 254°, own course 305°, Dusk has just set in.
Dived for the attack. Steamer is in a favorable position for a bow approach, then she makes a small change of course and comes in line with stern tube, so that from time of sighting to firing I did not have to change course.
Stern tube fire. G6AV with special attachment. Depth setting 5 m.; estimated range 550 m., estimated speed 10 knots, estimated track angle 90 deg. After a run of 496 m. hit, amidships. At the time of firing, the vessel was visible in the periscope only as a dark shadow. Upon detonation, a heavy black smoke cloud. 2 min. after the torpedo explosion a second detonation, perhaps occasioned by depth charges of the sinking vessel, which throws up a high luminous water column. Then nothing more was to be seen.
Surfaced to the place of sinking in order to search for wreckage or men. Nothing found. The vessel was apparently a large patrol craft of about 800 tons; 1 stack, 2 very high masts, on each side a lifeboat swung out.
Position of sinking 50° 40’ N., 6° 19’ W.
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Date and time 9/26/18 7:30 p.m.
7:40 p.m. 8:15 a.m.
8:25 p.m.
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