Marek T
07-02-2010, 15:44
I decided to make a new thread on ORZEL.
Hi Marek.Can you confirm a story I was taught back in my school days (No we did not have chalk boards!) that when the Polish Submarine ORZEL escaped to England,she actually sailed with very few charts of the North sea and English coastline? Cheers Steve.:)
In fact they had no charts at all. They were taken away by Estonians.
However the Estonians missed a German book with a list of navigation lights in Baltic (Verzeichnis der Leuchtfeuer und Signalstellen). Using positions given in that book one of officers drew a kind of chart of southern, central and western Baltic. With that "map" ORZEL cruised on Baltic since 19 September until until 7 October looking for German ships, with little success.
Here is a part of that "chart":
Hi Marek.Can you confirm a story I was taught back in my school days (No we did not have chalk boards!) that when the Polish Submarine ORZEL escaped to England,she actually sailed with very few charts of the North sea and English coastline? Cheers Steve.:)
In fact they had no charts at all. They were taken away by Estonians.
However the Estonians missed a German book with a list of navigation lights in Baltic (Verzeichnis der Leuchtfeuer und Signalstellen). Using positions given in that book one of officers drew a kind of chart of southern, central and western Baltic. With that "map" ORZEL cruised on Baltic since 19 September until until 7 October looking for German ships, with little success.
Here is a part of that "chart":