About: KMS Admiral Scheer   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The Admiral Scheer had already gained fame as a commerce raider in the North Atlantic when it met with Julius Lemp's U-30 in Spring 1939, north of the Faroes. The surface vessel's captain, Patzig, informed Lemp that from then on his submarine would escort the Admiral Scheer. Lemp immediately figured that this was yet another plan hatched by Karl Dönitz to punish him for the sinking of the SS Athenia earlier in the year. Every Protestant and Catholic church in Germany played its bells when the Admiral Scheer returned to Kiel safely.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • KMS Admiral Scheer
rdfs:comment
  • The Admiral Scheer had already gained fame as a commerce raider in the North Atlantic when it met with Julius Lemp's U-30 in Spring 1939, north of the Faroes. The surface vessel's captain, Patzig, informed Lemp that from then on his submarine would escort the Admiral Scheer. Lemp immediately figured that this was yet another plan hatched by Karl Dönitz to punish him for the sinking of the SS Athenia earlier in the year. Every Protestant and Catholic church in Germany played its bells when the Admiral Scheer returned to Kiel safely.
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:turtledove/...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • The Admiral Scheer had already gained fame as a commerce raider in the North Atlantic when it met with Julius Lemp's U-30 in Spring 1939, north of the Faroes. The surface vessel's captain, Patzig, informed Lemp that from then on his submarine would escort the Admiral Scheer. Lemp immediately figured that this was yet another plan hatched by Karl Dönitz to punish him for the sinking of the SS Athenia earlier in the year. Some time later the Admiral Scheer engaged three British battleships not far from North American waters. After exchanging shots the Admiral Scheer faked a retreat and got the other ships to follow her, movement that was used by the undiscovered U-30 to sink all pursuers. The victory was a great morale boost for the Germans, a source of anger for the British and of concern for the Americans. Every Protestant and Catholic church in Germany played its bells when the Admiral Scheer returned to Kiel safely.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software