whats the name of the music that u hear at the end when u see the U boat coming > the begin? of the song can i have the name and i like your video nice :)))))
U 136 entering U Boat Bunker in St Nazaire. Very typical original VII C Boat. Periscope is driven to full tallness in order to wave the burgees with the tonnage of the sinked vessels. Yard crew is already waiting.
Usually the boat crew stayed with the boat in yard while the commander and 1st WO went to Paris Hotel Continental.
Boat was lost in 1941- 08- 30 with depth charges off Madeira.
Photo Günter Prien and U 47 returning from one of his last raids (my opinion). Three burgees for three sunk ships and a Christmas tree. Location is the sluice of St. Nazaire.
The crew salutes in remarkable correct way so one can suppose, Dönitz is arrived to greet Prien and his crew.
Also typical the damages of turret and periscope due to the close combat conditions in North Atlantic.
The picture on turret is the Bull of Scapa Flow, nickname of Günter Prien.
@robinhood48 Don,t think its known how Prien,s boat was lost,one theory is depth charges from HMS Arbutus and another Flower that I don't remember the name of ,have also read mechanical failure and mines.Most Submarines/U-Boats lost to no known cause were probably mined.The 2 Flowers depth charged a contact but didn,t claim to have sunk it.Bit of a mystery.
@robinhood48 HMS Camellia and HMS Arbutus may have sunk U-47 seems Wolverine attacked U-A Turkish? I know of one RN submarine that just escaped a circle runner (Unbroken) also possible a USN nuke boat was lost in the 60,s to one.
@robinhood48 Yes think that was one possible explanation,not exactly a circle runner but IIR it homed on the launch boat after being discharged possibly started running in the tube.
@robinhood48 Have you come across any recent Kursk theories at the time a sensor in the UK designed to detect earth quakes picked up a small explosion followed about 20sec latter by a very large one,conclusion over here was a blast caused by Hydrogen Peroxide fuelled torpedoes followed by the warheads exploding.
The Geologisches Institut Brandenburg detected the same phenomena. First a small detonation and then a big bang.
If we assume the first explosion was H2O2 it could be possible that it was a torpedo, whose warhead then exploded.
My problem is: Hydrogen Peroxide is highly aggressive, so I don´t believe it could remain for longer time in a torpedo. So I think, they had to fill it into the torpedo tank before they could activate the warhead.
Maybe a drill failure during the refueling procedure with contact of the H2O2 with Copper? Then we could have had a remarkable detonation of the tank and the refueling station inside.
But how could the warhead detonate? Another drill error and they maintained an activated torpedo without knowing? A circuit?
I have seen the damage in TV. Such a massive destruction only by one single torpedo? Hard to believe.
@robinhood48 Interesting hole was shown on UK TV then rapidly covered up by the Russians,looked strangely like a hit from an AP shell with the plates bent in at the edges,thought it could have been hit by a Torpedo with a HEAT warhead at the time,neither the USN MK48 or UK Spearfish have a HEAT warhead so maybe another faulty circle runner.
@jers59 TV pictures at the time and recently repeated showed a circular hole just behind the section that was cut off,metal was bent inwards at the edges looked like a hit from a HEAT warhead.Was rapidly covered up.Given the number of accidents with Russian nuke subs it probably was just an accident.
@elswick1542 Well Stalin said Russias greatest Admiral was John Paul Jones who was sacked by Catherine the Great because he prefered younger woman to her
@jers59 Do you think there is any truth in the story that the USS Scorpion was sunk by a Soviet sub,my admittedly scant knowledge of the Soviet boats leads me to think its very unlikely.
@elswick1542 Just some BS by some author trying to sell book . Soviets were not mad like islamic terrorist no way they risk nuclear war by sinking Scorpion. Scorpion wreckage shows no sign of being torpedo. Most likely bad torpedo battery in torpedo thats why it was found turned 180 degress from direction it was travelling. Those batteries were due to be replaced Scorpion was in need of overhaul and subsafe program initiated after Thresher
@robinhood48 Russian torpedoes were fuelled by hydrogen peroxide which the west stopped using in the 1950,s as being to dangerous. Of course our russian friend the marshall thinks otherwise
@robinhood48 I gave marshall commie, list of russian subs lost since 1952 in accidents his response they were result of being torpedoed by US subs or collisions,he did admit some were lost due to fires and crew mistakes
@robinhood48 Pity the Russian fleet ever got to Japan,after the Dogger bank incident some future unpleasantness could possibly have been avoided if the Channel fleet took them out.Only Russians could of mistaken fishing boats for IJN torpedo boats in the North Sea.
Heard from that story. At this time the British government tried to pull the Russian bear to join the Entente, so they tolerated the Russian behavior. The Germans wanted to keep them neutral, so they supplied them with coal.
@jers59 Sidon was sunk by a torpedo fire but not a battery the experimental torpedoes on Sidon were powered by high test Hydrogen Peroxide(Walther Turbine),the RN never messed about with the stuff again 1 piece of stray metal swarff and an explosion is almost inevitable,Kursk used the same fuel.
@robinhood48 Seems unlikely,there is a famous picture of a WW2 T class submarine that survived a mine hit head on,they had 8 forward tubes IIR 2 of the torpedoes were missing,2 had the Warheads missing the other 4 heads were exposed.none detonated.If a few hundred KG of TNT can,t do it a fuel fire has no chance,but then Russian torpedoes are a bit of an unknown.
A massive detonation which could be detected by several seismographs! Have seen a video with crew members showing the inside of the boat to their wifes, was an atmosphere like a picnic.
@elswick1542 Russians still blaming US navy for loss of Kursk but if Kursk had that much damage from collision and US sub made it back to port that does not say much for russian ship building, Same with loss of K129 in 1968 soviets blamed the USS Swordfish for loss of that sub. most likely hydrogen peroxide explosion they also had muslim onboard as crewmen from checyna
@jers59 Always thought the collision claim was pure bullshit,no way could a Western boat survive a collision with a double hulled thing that size,even sabotage seems unlikely.
@elswick1542 I believe french blamed snorkel for loss of there 2 subs the last one lost was found below crush depth, the other one has not been located
@elswick1542 Scorpion was most likely sunk by faulty batteries in torpedos they were due to be replaced. 1960,s dangerous times for subs, numerous soviet boats lost, USS Thresher and Scorpion, 2 French boats the Eurydice and Minerve lost in 68 and 70 in same location off Toulon, Israeli Dakar T class lost in 68 maybe as revenge by elements in USN . The french have been quiet about loss of there 2 subs?
@jers59 Will have to look up a few things that have slipped my mind but I remember the French lost 2 and another boat of the same class sold to possibly Pakistan was also lost,cause was thought to be a faulty snorkel mast that failed due to metal fatigue causing catastrophic unrecoverable flooding,crew were also probably incapacitated by the Diesels sucking the air from inside the boat if the book Iron Coffins is anything to go by.
@elswick1542 Maybe but the french subs were only couple years old. Taiwan still has in service 2 old ex US subs from WW2 no fatigue problems with them. Not sure if I want to dive in them however.
@jers59 former Captain of one of the French boats said he spent 7000hours dived without a single problem,strange that with modern technology the French have made no further attempt to locate the wrecks.
@elswick1542 the french sub lost in 70 was found and photographed photos are on the internet, Israeli sub looks like it took torpedo in mid section must have been some careless P3 pilot some how accidently dropped torpedo. Apprently the brother of one of the israelis responsible for the attack on Liberty was aboard the Dakar
@elswick1542 If you look up the wikipedia article on french submarine eurydice s644 all the way on the bottom click on external link La Tragedie de la minerve, its in french few photos of wreckage
@elswick1542 french WW1 BB Danton was found in med by gas company mapping the bottom for gas line most likely way the french sub lost in 68 will be located
@elswick1542 2 sons of the captain of the Grunnion lost in action off alaska in 1942 paid company to search for there father sub they found it some excellant photos and analysis of the sinking
@jers59 The Snorkel tube failure may have been responsible for the last Brit sub lost Affray in 51,the wreck was found in water well above the crush depth,only visible damage was a broken Snorkel tube,revisited by a diver in 01 that confirmed the Navy story so no cover up it sits on the Sea bed upright with no other viable damage at all.
@jers59 The tube was located snapped off lying next to the boat it was recovered and had no damage indicating a collision, but a design fault that should not of caused it to fail in the circumstances.Stories of cover ups, leaking battery tanks,huge underwater objects that disappear even a ghost story continue to surface from time to time.
As always a good job,with some really intresting pics especially those depicting the boats and crews in warmer climes than those i normally associate with them .
@NAIAD49 polar bear is endangered animal I also notice they were not displaying there hunting license on there coats as formar hunter you will lose your license immediately and big fine
@elswick1542 no mention of U505 the most heavily damage Uboat to return to port first captain was competant but was sacked for sinking schooner owned by Columbian diplomat, second captain was incompetant made crew undergo infantry training when in port, wanted to abandon ship when heavily damage by RAF Lockheed orders ignored by CPO commits suicide on another patrol when being depth charge . Sunk 8 ships during the war is number1 of 4 surviving uboats for combat cruises.
U 505 is not to mention here due to the fact it was a IX D class. U 505 had to surrender because it was not able to dive. A German traitor shut the flood valves and saved the boat for the allies.
Most damaged boats to reach port were Günther Prien U 47 and Ali Cremer U 333. Nickname for Ali Cremer was Ali Wrack.
@robinhood48 beg to differ the U505 had its deck gun blown off the ship the explosion was so large it destroyed the aircraft that dropped it. Lorient was known as U505 hunting ground, Never heard of traitor on U505 The admiral on Guadalcanal trained boarding party to capture sub after the capture he thought he would be court martialed
@robinhood48 There are naval historians who say Gallery screwed up. If germans found out U baot was captured they would have changed there codes. Gallery was latter sacked in revolt of admirals when he wrote article against Defence Secretary who cancelled the first super carrier the United States scrap all carriers. demobilize the marine corp and build more B36 Bombers for nuclear strike
@robinhood48 About 25 years ago I worked for construction company called creamer was fired along with entire welding gang when someone insulted the owners wife (NOT ME)
All levers, hand wheels and switcher were produced in different shapes, so the crew could operate in absolute darkness. All crew were trained to do so.
But if the commander and his Chief Officer are in panic or/and confusion, nothing can be done by the crew.
Indeed, the Boat was only lightly damaged and there was two hours time to fight or to dive, but they met no decision. It was a total failure. You are too decent as to say that, so do I.
always thought the lighting story was a bit suspect,the second in command was a brave man,he escaped from a Pow camp attempted to blow up the boat with a home made bomb.think he almost succeeded but was shot in the attempt.
whats the name of the music that u hear at the end when u see the U boat coming > the begin? of the song can i have the name and i like your video nice :)))))
TheAlexn2 1 month ago
@TheAlexn2 At the end the boat sailing into the sunset is the sound track from the film Das boat.
elswick1542 1 month ago
what is the song? i like it!
13T13H13 1 year ago
@13T13H13 Its called ride of the Valkyries by Wagner.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 Да вы задрали уже своим "Полетом Валькирии". Просто всюду уже суете.
Канонично было бы Klaus Doldinger - Das Boot.
b631800 1 year ago
@elswick1542 d you mean the song at 0:46
hamsterats1223 5 months ago
@hamsterats1223 Yes it starts about .46
elswick1542 5 months ago
1:27
Very early VII class. The net saw was removed already in 1940. Seems the photo was taken from another U- Boat, maybe a "Milchkuh" , class XIV.
The crew feel safe, only few guards in tower.
robinhood48 1 year ago 2
die schrift kann man zwar schlecht lesn aber gut
chinookking97 1 year ago
A very interesting video.I don't know much about U-boats, but I liked this.
zub1964 1 year ago 2
@zub1964 Thanks Friend.
elswick1542 1 year ago
2:39
U 136 entering U Boat Bunker in St Nazaire. Very typical original VII C Boat. Periscope is driven to full tallness in order to wave the burgees with the tonnage of the sinked vessels. Yard crew is already waiting.
Usually the boat crew stayed with the boat in yard while the commander and 1st WO went to Paris Hotel Continental.
Boat was lost in 1941- 08- 30 with depth charges off Madeira.
robinhood48 1 year ago
0:46
U 123 (IX D) with Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Hardegen departing Kiel (?).
Hardegen received his Knight´s Cross (Ritterkreuz) from Hitler personally.
Fortunately he was ordered to become director of the Torpedo School Mürvick so he survived the war.
robinhood48 1 year ago
2:24
Returning VII C 953 (Herbert Werner) and docked XI D2 851 (Hannes Weingärtner)
Photo was taken autumn 1944 in Trondheim.
No serenades, no speeches- only duty.
Herbert Werner wrote the excellent book "Eiserne Särge" (Iron Coffins). The title says it all.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 2:36
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 One of and very possibly the best Submarine/U-Boat book I have ever read.
elswick1542 1 year ago
0:52
Photo Günter Prien and U 47 returning from one of his last raids (my opinion). Three burgees for three sunk ships and a Christmas tree. Location is the sluice of St. Nazaire.
The crew salutes in remarkable correct way so one can suppose, Dönitz is arrived to greet Prien and his crew.
Also typical the damages of turret and periscope due to the close combat conditions in North Atlantic.
The picture on turret is the Bull of Scapa Flow, nickname of Günter Prien.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 Don,t think its known how Prien,s boat was lost,one theory is depth charges from HMS Arbutus and another Flower that I don't remember the name of ,have also read mechanical failure and mines.Most Submarines/U-Boats lost to no known cause were probably mined.The 2 Flowers depth charged a contact but didn,t claim to have sunk it.Bit of a mystery.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542
Seems you mean HMS Wolverine, but actually they say it was U-A, which was damaged by this destroyer.
Some days ago I have read U 47 also could have been destroyed by own torpedo, a so called "Kreisläufer" (Circle Runner).
Prien was a propaganda hero, so his death was reported very late and without any further comment.
His combat record is impressing!
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 HMS Camellia and HMS Arbutus may have sunk U-47 seems Wolverine attacked U-A Turkish? I know of one RN submarine that just escaped a circle runner (Unbroken) also possible a USN nuke boat was lost in the 60,s to one.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542
Do you mean Thresher?
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 Yes think that was one possible explanation,not exactly a circle runner but IIR it homed on the launch boat after being discharged possibly started running in the tube.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 U869 may have been sunk by circular torpedo also Tang and Tullibee
jers59 1 year ago
@robinhood48 Scrap that think it was the other boat lost in the 60,s USS Scorpion (SSN-589)
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542
Yes, heard that story. Boat turned 180°, normal procedure to deactivate torpedo.
Also heard something from hot battery inside torpedo.
Shame that there are no black boxes like in Aircraft. So we will never know.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 Have you come across any recent Kursk theories at the time a sensor in the UK designed to detect earth quakes picked up a small explosion followed about 20sec latter by a very large one,conclusion over here was a blast caused by Hydrogen Peroxide fuelled torpedoes followed by the warheads exploding.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542
The Geologisches Institut Brandenburg detected the same phenomena. First a small detonation and then a big bang.
If we assume the first explosion was H2O2 it could be possible that it was a torpedo, whose warhead then exploded.
My problem is: Hydrogen Peroxide is highly aggressive, so I don´t believe it could remain for longer time in a torpedo. So I think, they had to fill it into the torpedo tank before they could activate the warhead.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@elswick1542
Maybe a drill failure during the refueling procedure with contact of the H2O2 with Copper? Then we could have had a remarkable detonation of the tank and the refueling station inside.
But how could the warhead detonate? Another drill error and they maintained an activated torpedo without knowing? A circuit?
I have seen the damage in TV. Such a massive destruction only by one single torpedo? Hard to believe.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 Interesting hole was shown on UK TV then rapidly covered up by the Russians,looked strangely like a hit from an AP shell with the plates bent in at the edges,thought it could have been hit by a Torpedo with a HEAT warhead at the time,neither the USN MK48 or UK Spearfish have a HEAT warhead so maybe another faulty circle runner.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 At the time the russian cruiser Peter the not so Great was taking part in war game with Kursk not sure if it launched any torpedoes
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 TV pictures at the time and recently repeated showed a circular hole just behind the section that was cut off,metal was bent inwards at the edges looked like a hit from a HEAT warhead.Was rapidly covered up.Given the number of accidents with Russian nuke subs it probably was just an accident.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 Well Stalin said Russias greatest Admiral was John Paul Jones who was sacked by Catherine the Great because he prefered younger woman to her
jers59 1 year ago 2
@jers59 Do you think there is any truth in the story that the USS Scorpion was sunk by a Soviet sub,my admittedly scant knowledge of the Soviet boats leads me to think its very unlikely.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 Just some BS by some author trying to sell book . Soviets were not mad like islamic terrorist no way they risk nuclear war by sinking Scorpion. Scorpion wreckage shows no sign of being torpedo. Most likely bad torpedo battery in torpedo thats why it was found turned 180 degress from direction it was travelling. Those batteries were due to be replaced Scorpion was in need of overhaul and subsafe program initiated after Thresher
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 Same opinion as mine total bull.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 Kursk and HMS Sidon were also sunk by fires caused by torpedo battery fires. So that would be my guess for loss of Scorpion
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59
Not sure if the new Russian torpedoes are propelled by electricity. The Kursk detonation was definitely too strong.
HMS Sidon was another case.
Seems the Scorpion crew tried to deactivate a torpedo.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 Russian torpedoes were fuelled by hydrogen peroxide which the west stopped using in the 1950,s as being to dangerous. Of course our russian friend the marshall thinks otherwise
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59
H2O2 propulsion.
Stolen from German Walter propulsion U- Boat class XXV and XXVI.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 I mean he believes Kursk and other russian subs lost was because they were torpedoed or in collision
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59
In Russian navy nothing changed since battle of Tushima.
And always lame excuses!
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 I gave marshall commie, list of russian subs lost since 1952 in accidents his response they were result of being torpedoed by US subs or collisions,he did admit some were lost due to fires and crew mistakes
jers59 1 year ago
@robinhood48 The marshall is now claiming the war in 1906 between Russia and Japan was great russian victory
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59
Battle of Tushima was probably the greatest disaster since Battle of Salamis. This Russian lives in his own world.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 Pity the Russian fleet ever got to Japan,after the Dogger bank incident some future unpleasantness could possibly have been avoided if the Channel fleet took them out.Only Russians could of mistaken fishing boats for IJN torpedo boats in the North Sea.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542
Heard from that story. At this time the British government tried to pull the Russian bear to join the Entente, so they tolerated the Russian behavior. The Germans wanted to keep them neutral, so they supplied them with coal.
But these Russians were doomed anyway.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@jers59 Sidon was sunk by a torpedo fire but not a battery the experimental torpedoes on Sidon were powered by high test Hydrogen Peroxide(Walther Turbine),the RN never messed about with the stuff again 1 piece of stray metal swarff and an explosion is almost inevitable,Kursk used the same fuel.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@robinhood48 Seems unlikely,there is a famous picture of a WW2 T class submarine that survived a mine hit head on,they had 8 forward tubes IIR 2 of the torpedoes were missing,2 had the Warheads missing the other 4 heads were exposed.none detonated.If a few hundred KG of TNT can,t do it a fuel fire has no chance,but then Russian torpedoes are a bit of an unknown.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542
A massive detonation which could be detected by several seismographs! Have seen a video with crew members showing the inside of the boat to their wifes, was an atmosphere like a picnic.
In Russian navy everything is possible.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 Absolutely nothing is impossible with the Russians!
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 Russians still blaming US navy for loss of Kursk but if Kursk had that much damage from collision and US sub made it back to port that does not say much for russian ship building, Same with loss of K129 in 1968 soviets blamed the USS Swordfish for loss of that sub. most likely hydrogen peroxide explosion they also had muslim onboard as crewmen from checyna
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 Always thought the collision claim was pure bullshit,no way could a Western boat survive a collision with a double hulled thing that size,even sabotage seems unlikely.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 I believe french blamed snorkel for loss of there 2 subs the last one lost was found below crush depth, the other one has not been located
jers59 1 year ago
@elswick1542 Scorpion was most likely sunk by faulty batteries in torpedos they were due to be replaced. 1960,s dangerous times for subs, numerous soviet boats lost, USS Thresher and Scorpion, 2 French boats the Eurydice and Minerve lost in 68 and 70 in same location off Toulon, Israeli Dakar T class lost in 68 maybe as revenge by elements in USN . The french have been quiet about loss of there 2 subs?
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 Will have to look up a few things that have slipped my mind but I remember the French lost 2 and another boat of the same class sold to possibly Pakistan was also lost,cause was thought to be a faulty snorkel mast that failed due to metal fatigue causing catastrophic unrecoverable flooding,crew were also probably incapacitated by the Diesels sucking the air from inside the boat if the book Iron Coffins is anything to go by.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 Maybe but the french subs were only couple years old. Taiwan still has in service 2 old ex US subs from WW2 no fatigue problems with them. Not sure if I want to dive in them however.
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 former Captain of one of the French boats said he spent 7000hours dived without a single problem,strange that with modern technology the French have made no further attempt to locate the wrecks.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 The first french sub was lost in68 the same time as israeli sub they located the sub lost in 70
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 Didn't think they had found either,Israeli sub has been found and a few parts recovered.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 the french sub lost in 70 was found and photographed photos are on the internet, Israeli sub looks like it took torpedo in mid section must have been some careless P3 pilot some how accidently dropped torpedo. Apprently the brother of one of the israelis responsible for the attack on Liberty was aboard the Dakar
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 Found the Dakar wrecks never look like you expect them to,can,t find the French boat Eurydice.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 If you look up the wikipedia article on french submarine eurydice s644 all the way on the bottom click on external link La Tragedie de la minerve, its in french few photos of wreckage
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 Gave that a go but looks like a broken link just a blank page will try again later.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 french WW1 BB Danton was found in med by gas company mapping the bottom for gas line most likely way the french sub lost in 68 will be located
jers59 1 year ago
@elswick1542 2 sons of the captain of the Grunnion lost in action off alaska in 1942 paid company to search for there father sub they found it some excellant photos and analysis of the sinking
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 The Snorkel tube failure may have been responsible for the last Brit sub lost Affray in 51,the wreck was found in water well above the crush depth,only visible damage was a broken Snorkel tube,revisited by a diver in 01 that confirmed the Navy story so no cover up it sits on the Sea bed upright with no other viable damage at all.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 I thought Affray may have been struck by ship as it was cruising just below surface crushing the snorkel?
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 The tube was located snapped off lying next to the boat it was recovered and had no damage indicating a collision, but a design fault that should not of caused it to fail in the circumstances.Stories of cover ups, leaking battery tanks,huge underwater objects that disappear even a ghost story continue to surface from time to time.
elswick1542 1 year ago
very nice
sodomized1 1 year ago
@sodomized1 Thanks friend.
elswick1542 1 year ago
Great!!!
sbd403 1 year ago
4:28
U 185 Class IX D 40 after a deadly hit by charges of two wildcats.
Both engines are running full ahead and the two electro engines Siemens Schuckert 2 GU 345/34 are clutched in with full power.
This procedure was called "Dreimal Wahnsinnige" (Three times insane!)
A famous boat with a famous commander.
robinhood48 1 year ago
Wonderful Pics,Allan
Totenschlacht 1 year ago
Thanks friend
elswick1542 1 year ago
As always a good job,with some really intresting pics especially those depicting the boats and crews in warmer climes than those i normally associate with them .
iroscoe 1 year ago
What had that poor Polar Bear done to them?
NAIAD49 1 year ago
I great Naval tradition"shoot the Polar bear"Nelson bagged one so if good enough for him!
elswick1542 1 year ago
Is it?
News to me............the Royal Navy piped King Polar Bear aboard for the order of the
Blue Nose ceremony.......don't think they shot him........anyway by 1940's the Kriegsmarine should have known better.
NAIAD49 1 year ago
Could of swore he shot one didn't it make a change from boiled salt pork,in the 18th century they either got animals drunk or ate them.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@NAIAD49
Polar bear was shot because it was a disguised British spy.
robinhood48 1 year ago
Ah, yes....in England we had the same problem, in the Napoleonic Wars
a monkey was hung in Hartlepool because they thought it was a French spy.....so the story goes.
NAIAD49 1 year ago
@NAIAD49
The French and their spies- a long and sad story.
robinhood48 1 year ago
Its true I tell you,the hairy little f****r deserved it!
elswick1542 1 year ago
One of my work colleagues is from Hartlepool and we refer to him as the 'monkeyhanger',same as calling people from Swindon 'moonrakers' i suppose .
iroscoe 1 year ago
@NAIAD49 polar bear is endangered animal I also notice they were not displaying there hunting license on there coats as formar hunter you will lose your license immediately and big fine
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59 Just like the Mexican Bandits on Blazing Saddles these battle hardened
German sailors would say...."Badges...Badges....we don't need no stinking badges"
Di Yi Knaa Wott a meen marra?
NAIAD49 1 year ago
4:41
U 848 Class IX D2, 1943- 11- 05
Boat unable to dive, being under attack . All engines full ahead.
Crew is preparing to abandon ship. On bridge Korvettenkapitän Rollmann with withe cap and other crew.
AA already not in operation.
No one survived.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48
What a wonderful tribute.
Thank you for that.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48
Think I messed up with the type face a bit difficult to read,thought you would notice the Type ID pics,did you spot the Cuckoo in nest U-570.
elswick1542 1 year ago
Should be Type IXD
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542
3:22
They were brave enough to join the U- Boot- Waffe but they were not nervy enough to stand the fight.
Poor buggers.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48
British investigation concluded that the emergency lighting circuit was not fitted and green crew were blinded,strange things happen at Sea.
elswick1542 1 year ago
At least that's the story .
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542 no mention of U505 the most heavily damage Uboat to return to port first captain was competant but was sacked for sinking schooner owned by Columbian diplomat, second captain was incompetant made crew undergo infantry training when in port, wanted to abandon ship when heavily damage by RAF Lockheed orders ignored by CPO commits suicide on another patrol when being depth charge . Sunk 8 ships during the war is number1 of 4 surviving uboats for combat cruises.
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59
U 505 is not to mention here due to the fact it was a IX D class. U 505 had to surrender because it was not able to dive. A German traitor shut the flood valves and saved the boat for the allies.
Most damaged boats to reach port were Günther Prien U 47 and Ali Cremer U 333. Nickname for Ali Cremer was Ali Wrack.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 beg to differ the U505 had its deck gun blown off the ship the explosion was so large it destroyed the aircraft that dropped it. Lorient was known as U505 hunting ground, Never heard of traitor on U505 The admiral on Guadalcanal trained boarding party to capture sub after the capture he thought he would be court martialed
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59
The name of the crew member is Ewald Felix. He went down with US party and showed them which valves had to be shut.
Yes, Gallery trained hard to be able to capture a U- Boat and
he succeeded.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 There are naval historians who say Gallery screwed up. If germans found out U baot was captured they would have changed there codes. Gallery was latter sacked in revolt of admirals when he wrote article against Defence Secretary who cancelled the first super carrier the United States scrap all carriers. demobilize the marine corp and build more B36 Bombers for nuclear strike
jers59 1 year ago
@robinhood48 About 25 years ago I worked for construction company called creamer was fired along with entire welding gang when someone insulted the owners wife (NOT ME)
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59
Yeah!
Keep the hands off the wife of the boss!
Dienst ist Dienst und Schnaps ist Schnaps.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 the boss wife was so ugly she could be modern art master piece
jers59 1 year ago
@jers59
Like Private Pauler!
robinhood48 1 year ago
@elswick1542
All levers, hand wheels and switcher were produced in different shapes, so the crew could operate in absolute darkness. All crew were trained to do so.
But if the commander and his Chief Officer are in panic or/and confusion, nothing can be done by the crew.
Indeed, the Boat was only lightly damaged and there was two hours time to fight or to dive, but they met no decision. It was a total failure. You are too decent as to say that, so do I.
Truth always hurts, but must be said.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48
always thought the lighting story was a bit suspect,the second in command was a brave man,he escaped from a Pow camp attempted to blow up the boat with a home made bomb.think he almost succeeded but was shot in the attempt.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@elswick1542
You are very fair.
But i´m sure you know the whole story, also the events in POW camp.
robinhood48 1 year ago
@robinhood48 Yes the story is well known,the choice he was given was a death sentence either way.
elswick1542 1 year ago