Ernst Kals U-130
(Summary)

Captain Ernst Kals joined the Reichsmarine in 1924. In April 1942, Kals, in U-130, bombarded
the Allied petroleum tank farm on Curaçao, in the Netherlands Antilles. He went on to sink a total of
20 ships on five patrols, a total of 145,656 tons of Allied shipping. In five minutes he sank three
United States troopships, the Edward Rutledge, Hugh L. Scott and Tasker H. Bliss.
 Kals was held in French captivity from May 1945 to January 1948. He died at Emden in 1979 at
the age of 74. As commander of U-130  Ernst Kals reportedly sank 17 merchant ships for a total of
111,249 gross register tons (GRT), three auxiliary warships for a  total of 34,407 GRT
and damaged one further ship of 6,986 GRT.