U995, workhorse of the Wolf Pack

U995 was a type 7 submarine and was the workhorse of the wolf pack. After many adventures she has been wonderfully preserved at Laboe in the shadow of the soaring tower of the Uboat memorial. Well worth a vist.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• Uboats
• diving
• submarine
• wolfpack
• Donitz
• war
• german
• navy
• Museum
• Adventure

[seapeddler]

What was the maximum hull psi. before imploding?

[scapa6]

@seapeddler

Iwill find out

peter

[Jeansschwimmer]

@seapeddler Well, there were of course no survivors from crewmembers who sank with their ships - either in subs or trapped between closed bulkheads and watertight compartments of any other vessel. U-boatmen sang a parody on "Lilli Marleen": "depthcharges are falling and the lights will fail, and the seacocks fly into the boat, yes, when we go for dive then, we'll stop at 3000ft and won't be seen anymore."

[seapeddler]

@Jeansschwimmer High pressure water is the key. An industrial pressure washer is lethal if the wand sprays a person. But I wonder if ball valves would be safer?

[Jeansschwimmer]

@seapeddler I have no idea but the weak point was and is not the hull itself, it is the valves and flanges, glands and o-rings in them that give way. The water will then shoot in at high pressure and fill the boat quickly, even cutting men in two who stand in the way of such a jet of water and desperately try to close the leak.

[Jeansschwimmer]

"The base of virtually nothing" did not really exist. There was a sort of clandestine rearnament of Germany between 1920 and 1935 as German engineers had gone abroad and did construction and development work in Sweden and the Soviet Union e.g. .That meant that Germany had at least the technological know-how for fighter planes, bombers and submarines. Göring, Udet and Raeder did not have to "reinvent the bicycle" after Hitlers rise to power.

[deutscher16]

all diese bilder stammen aus einem buch das man in laboe kaufen kann!!!!!!

[j0hn0j0hn]

nice upload!