DD730 wrote:
You're wrong this time.

Meaning that Jax is almost right?

... On the 14th of January 1942 at 0448, for one. Just
off Montauk Point. Captain Hardegen of U-123 fired his first torpedos,
sinking the Norness, Captain Harold Hansen. Without coastal charts, Captain
Hardegen proceeded past Rockaway Beach and into the Ambrose Channel. At
0140 on the 15th, while almost aground on Long Beach, he sank the Coimbra,
422', carrying 80,000 barrels of oil. He was attacked the next day by
bombers, but escaped.

I appreciate the chance to learn more. But Montauk and the Ambrose
Channel isn't inside Long Island Sound, is it?

However, it turns out that right at the very end of the war, a U-boat
did enter LIS and was sunk by three US Navy vessels (Jax said it was the
USCG and that they bragged unjustifiably about it). I wonder of this guy
was planning on surrendering in Greenwich or Norwalk or, maybe letting
his crew skedaddle ashore and scuttling the boat. Y'know begin a new
life in a new country and all that? Couldn't blame him is he was.

http://uboat.net/boats/u853.htm

This same U-boat had sunk a patrol boat off the coast of Maine a few
days earlier, and the U.S. Navy for decades insisted that it was due to
a boiler explosion.

Regards
Doug King