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Friday 17 April 2015

German submarine UB 6 underway towards Nieuwediep, Netherlands for transfer to Allies according to the Dutch newspaper Ons Blad dated 21 February 1919

An item reported that the German submarine UB 6 which was lying interned since 2 years in the Nood-Hollands Kanaal at Alkmaar, Netherlands guarded by the Dutch gunboat Hr.Ms. Gee[ departed that morning at 10.00 o’clock towards the Nieuwdiep towed by the tug Cor. At the Nieuwediep she was to be handed over to the Allies and form there bound for Harwich, England and according to the rumours to from there to Japan. The German sailors still on board were to leave her at Nieuwdiep, come back to Alkmaar and from there towards Germany. The floating boathouse in which the submarine was preserved would probably be towed to Germany.(1)

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1. According to www.uboat.net sunk at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands on 18 March 1917 and in 1919 was her wreck handed over to France where she was broken up in July 1921 at Brest, France.