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By: U-boat pics - World War 2 Talk

U-boat pics - World War 2 Talk — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:41:27 +0000

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By: Calum Davidson

Calum Davidson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:58:42 +0000

Couple of points – you have the wrong country when you say she visited England as part of a Nato exercise in 1962 – in fact it was Scotland (the country where all her sisters who surrendered to the Royal Navy ended up in April and May 45).

She also visited the small Scottish town of Lerwick – in the Shetland Islands – in 1965, on her very last voyage as a military vessel, where I as a very small boy was taken aboard her for a visit (by my Dad who had spend an uncomfortable few weeks in 1945 dodging U-Boats in his aircraft carrier on route from Scotland to the far East for the war against Japan).

I remember the smells of diesel, the very cramped conditions, and the rows of sub-machine guns on the walls of the conning tower!

I had no idea that she still existed, I must try and see if I can arrange a vist next time I’m in Northern Germany.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:29:02 +0000

Interesting read of a famous U-boat, even if it wasn’t one of the most succesful ones.

One note however: Your narrative does not state that this U-Boat was not a standard VIIC but a improved VIIC/41 with higher crush depth and different conning tower and flak armament.

My fifty cents to an otherwise accurate and interesting read…

Richard