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The Norfolk Controversy[edit]

This page had a Reference to German Maritime Museum Website. http://www.dsm.de/Pubs/23_12.htm

Listed under External Links. This link went dead sometime between Feb & Sept 2007. Hence any text referencing it can not be maintained. For now I have copied the text from the reference Page onto this page. I request a senior Editor to look into this issue so we can put the issue to rest.

Secondly, There is an Excerpt from C.D. Bekker's Book Kampf und Untergang der Kriegsmarine available. Published Düsseldorf, 1953. http://www.ww2f.com/atlantic-naval-conflict/13892-new-u-boats.html

According to this Excerpt, Korvettenkapitän Schnee deposed to the Royal Navy Commission in Bergen aboard HMS Norfolk. During this deposition, he is said to have requested a comparison of Norfolk's Ship's Log to that of the U-2511. The comparison is said to have revealed that the Cruiser indeed was at that position making the recorded speed as per the Sub's Log.perseus71 (talk) 20:34, 26 August 2008 (UTC) —Preceding signed comment added by Perseus71 (talk • contribs) 20:30, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to link that went dead[edit]

If a link goes dead, it can still be found via web archive. Look here. I will paste the text.

Reinhard Hoheisel-Huxmann Der Fronteinsatz des Ubootes U 2511 – Wirkliche Dichtung? Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv (DSA) 23, 2000, S. 347-372 Article printed in German, with English and French summaries, 4 ill.

Abstract

The submarine U 2511 in action at the front: A real myth? After World War II, a widely circulated rumour claimed that the type-XXI submarine U 2511 had made a blind attack on the British cruiser NORFOLK during the final phase of the war. An investigation carried out in 1998 came to the conclusion that, on the basis of the spatiotemporal data, this episode was impossible and therefore a myth. The article begins with a critical look at the basic information supplied by the various sources, as well as at the arguments that led to the verdict passed by the 1998 study. The focus then turns to the description of a scenario in which the known data are summarised in a logically conceivable set of proceedings. The scenario is not a historical reconstruction of the event but a concrete model of what would have been spatiotemporally plausible according to the data. The results clearly indicate that there is no sufficient or solid basis for concluding that the encounter between the U 2511 and the NORFOLK was a mere invention.

Author's addresses: Dipl.-Geogr. Reinhard Hoheisel-Huxmann · Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum · Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1 · D-27568 Bremerhaven · Germany —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.11.254 (talk) 02:05, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]