Fortunately for my grandfather, it was during the middle of the night. So later that day (Jan 12, 1917), after Marx fired on submarine UB-23 and damaged it, the sub was stranded for about 90 minutes on the Goodwin Sands off of Kent.
#Deutsches u boot museum cuxhaven archive
I found this same photo in the archives of the Deutsches U-boot Museum in Cuxhaven – with my grandfather’s writing on the back! (Attached) I believe he sent the photos to Ziemer and Ziemer’s papers ended up in the archive (including the essay that I translated – I received three separate versions of it when I ordered papers from the archive). If you’d like the copy of it that I translated, I’d be happy to send it to you – it’s exciting reading. Heinz Ziemer wrote an article about the near miss on the 50th anniversary. I just found this out from the U-boat Archive in Cuxhaven. My grandfather was on the U-boat that John Locke Marx thought he sank (the UB-23, on Jan 12, 1917). Readers may be interested in these extracts from my earlier correspondence with Kristen:
Details of Marx’s account can be read in A Naval Life, Chapter Fourteen. Kristen has translated an account of the incident given by Heinz Zeimer, the Captain of the U boat, and held in the archives at Cuxhaven. We are grateful to Kristen Fehlhaber who has sent us this interesting and valuable article about the occasion when John Locke Marx thought he had sunk a German U boat on Jan 12, 1917.
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