New YT video on Sub Chasers

[Bodei]

https://youtu.be/YYNDqDQz_XE

I didn't know anything about this ship class before playing this game. Now they're getting some love from the "The History Guy".

[Leandros]

He should have mentioned that one of the Norwegian skippers on the three SCs which were used in the "Shetland Bus"-unit, Leif Larsen, went on to become the most decorated allied naval officer during WW2.

Fred

[Bodei]

He did mention in the comments that he would have further videos on the subject, so I hope that's covered because it sounds interesting.

[apbarog]

From the video, I learned that US sub chaser "SC" ships were made of wood, while the somewhat bigger "PC" sub chaser ships were made of steel.

[spence]

The first German POWs were taken in May 42 when the 165 ft Coast Guard Cutter ICARUS sank the U-boat U-352 off of NC/SC. The ship was quite similar to the PC type of submarine chaser. Later that year a sister ship, CGC THETIS sank another U-boat (U-166 IIRC) in the Gulf of Mexico, this time with all hands.

https://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2017/11/ ... -of-u-352/

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: spence

The first German POWs were taken in May 42 when the 165 ft Coast Guard Cutter ICARUS sank the U-boat U-352 off of NC/SC. The ship was quite similar to the PC type of submarine chaser. Later that year a sister ship, CGC THETIS sank another U-boat (U-166 IIRC) in the Gulf of Mexico, this time with all hands.

https://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2017/11/ ... -of-u-352/

I'm pretty sure the RN took some German U-boat crew prisoners long before May of 1942 ... [;)]