Saturday news

By tk
Saturday, April 19, 2003

*Hunting Island beaches still fastest eroding
-Beaufort Gazette, 4-19-03

*Hilton Head Island's beaches in good shape after mild year
*Town will be able to pay for beach nourishment
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-19-03

*Bacteria triggers 2 swim advisories
-Florida Times Union, 4-19-03

*Boy suffers shark bite near Patrick AFB’s north beach
*Manatee status to be considered in May conference
*Scientists get to the bottom of ’black water’ in Gulf
-Daytona News Journal, 4-19-03

*Man dies after rescuing his children from Gulf off Dauphin Island
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, 4-18-02

*Waves of visitors likely at beaches
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-19-03

French Connection P 3.

Baudin and his ship, Jardiniere III were driven northwards by hurricane winds and he was forced to enter Bombay to undertake repairs. But Baudin was unaware that France was also at war with Britain, and he had more crew leave him and the ship, he took on some Indian seamen to fill the gap. Now he gave up any plans to sail to the Far East, and made for the area of the Red Sea and on to East Africa. He obviously had no qualms about the Slave Trade, taking on board slaves from African ports.

As he sailed south to enter Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope, he again ran into storms, but this time they drove his vessel aground.

This became a failed voyage, and Scholl who had been trying to leave the
Cape area for some 8 years, now blamed Baudin, he thought the Captain
had deliberately put his ship aground so he could dispose of the black slaves.

The movements of Baudin after the stranding of his ship are not well documented, he apparently saved a collection of plants and trees from the shipwreck, because he took them to his botanist friend Labarrere at Trinidad. Baudin turned up in the United States, gained a passport from the French Ambassador and via an American ship returned to France.

He now played his experience as A Botanical Voyager card, visiting the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris to lobby Professor Antoine-Laurent Jussieu, within six months the professor and his staff had convinced the Government to charter a small ship to sail to Trinidad to recover the botanical collection left there by Baudin.

The Museum chose four scientists to join with Baudin for this trip.

This ship, Belle-Angelique set off from Le Havre, and Sir Joseph Banks recommended that this expedition be given safe conduct by the British, very important, recalling that the two countries were at war.

After three weeks at sea, the ship ran into a howling gale blowing in from the west, it

I am indebted to Bram Otto and his site: The Submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy. http://www.dutchsubmarines.com for the source material from which I have produced this work.

Mackenzie J. Gregory. Melbourne, Australia. Easter Saturday, the 19th. of April. 2003.

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Dutch Subs Table 2

Mac.

Dutch Submarine Operations. WW2, 1941-1945. Table 2.

Rank order of Ships sunk, tonnage sunk by individual
Submarine.

Submarine.        Total ships sunk.             Total
tonnage sunk.

O-16.                           9                           36,852

Dolfijn 1                     18                           28,288

O-23                            5                           22,035

O-21                           10                          19,880

K-XIV                         7                           19,241

O-24                           8                            15,598

O-19                           4                             10,391

K-XVIII                      2                              8,388

Zwaardvis 1                3                               5,700

K-XVI                         3                              1,810

Totals.                       69                         168,813

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Dutch Subs Table 3

Mac.

Dutch Submarine Operations. WW2, 1941-1945. Table 3.

Tonnages sunk, and ships sunk in rank order by calendar year.

Rank order.    Year.      Tonnage sunk.          Ships Sunk.         Year.

1.                     1941           78,639                      21                  1941

2.                     1942           34,813                      18                  1944

3.                     1943           25,215                      12                  1943

4.                     1944           22,106                      10                  1945

5.                     1945           7,410                          8                  1942

Totals.                             168,183               69

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Dutch Subs Table 4

Dutch Submarine Operations. WW2, 1939-1945. Table 4.

Dutch submarines lost in WW2 .

K-XIII      Scuttled to prevent capture when Germany invaded Netherlands.

K-XVI      Torpedoed and lost.

K-XVII     Lost to a mine.

O-16         Lost to a mine.

K-XVIII   Scuttled to prevent capture.

O-8           Captured by Germans and recommissioned as U-D1.

O-11         Scuttled to prevent capture.

O-12         Scuttled, but raised by Germans and recommissioned as U-D2.

O-13         Lost on patrol 1940.

O-16         Lost to a mine.

O-19         Stranded on Ladd Reef.

O-20         Sunk by Japanese.

O-22         Lost with all hands 1940, may have struck a mine.

O-25         Scuttled, but raised by Germans and recommissioned as U-D3.

O-26.        Not launched when Germany invaded Netherlands, the Germans
completed her, and commissioned this Boat as U-D4.

The total of Boats lost is thus 15, but that includes 7 that were captured or scuttled, 4 of which were commissioned into the Imperial German Navy as
U-D1, U-D2, U-D3, and U-D4.

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