Daily Event for September 9


On or about Sept. 9, 1918 the German submarine U-92 disappeared somewhere in the North Sea. Thought to
have been lost to a mine like many other vessels nobody was looking for her when she was found in 2006.
The damage confirms the U-92 hit a mine in the Northern Barrage and sank with all forty-two hands. Not far
from the U-92 the wreck of the U-102 was also found by the same survey. Onboard the bodies of all forty-two German sailors who went down with her including Kapitänleutnant Curt Beitzen. Beitzen and his earlier command U-75 had laid the mines thought to have been responsible for sinking the HMS Hampshire on
June 5, 1916. Hampshire was carrying Horatio "Lord" Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, and his staff to
Russia to discuss plans for the Russians to by munitions to fight the Germans. Following his death several
recruiting posters were made using his likeness. Beitzen fell victim to the same weapon he had used earlier as
the wreck of the U-102 shows damage caused by a mine.

© 2007 Michael W. Pocock
MaritimeQuest.com


The most famous of the Kitchener posters.


2006 Daily Event