@1960totnes Wow. I am really sorry to hear that. I'll bet if that boat (U-118) had beached in a more prosperous location, particularly one where the residents and local council appreciated anything historical or would eventually be, thereof, you folks in the UK would indeed have had a TRUE World War One relic, pretty much like the Museum of Science and Technology in Chicago preserves it's German U-505, the only truly intact U-boat captured by the US Navy off Africa 06/04/44.
@ursa41 I'm afraid Hastings council has a long history of poor, pennypinching, decisions behind them. A harbour was started in the early 1900's to protect the beach-launched fishing fleet, but abandoned when costs spiralled and has sat slowly falling into the sea ever since.
@ursa41 Absolutely correct. I used to live in Hastings and know well about this event. Apparently it was hoped to install it permanently on the seafront as a war memorial, but predictably then, as now, no-one wanted to cough up the money needed to do the job. So the sub was scrapped.
@matteoeoeo Hi. The Polish sub ORZEL (Eagle) was designed/built by the Dutch with specs similar to their O-16 boat. Ordered by Poland in 1935 and commissioned February 1939. After Germany attacked on September 01, 1939, ORZEL was ordered to abandon Gydnia and make for a British port on Sept. 14, 1939. Sunk off Norway after striking a mine June 8,1940. SOKOL was a British-designed U-class boat,loaned to ORP (Polish navy) on January 11,1941; returned intact to Royal Navy on July 25, 1945
@koelschwolf My understanding is that the beached World War I U-boat (NOT the U-class sub of British design of WW II) in the slide above is the U-118. The sub and crew officially surrendered on February 23, 1919 months after the November 18th Armstice whiche ended the Great War. While under tow to France via the English channel, a violent storm snapped off the hawser dragging the boat and she ultimately ran aground at beach of Hastings, Sussex UK. She became a tourist attraction for awhile.
@matteoeoeo with Jolly Roger AND Krigsmarine(?) flag, leased to the Polish Navy for the period of II WW, originally HMS Urchin.
Beskidekk 1 month ago
@b58f18 -- lol... a collection of photo's can't be made into a movie.
the82spartans 1 month ago
a fucking slide show on a video website...
b58f18 2 months ago
@1960totnes Wow. I am really sorry to hear that. I'll bet if that boat (U-118) had beached in a more prosperous location, particularly one where the residents and local council appreciated anything historical or would eventually be, thereof, you folks in the UK would indeed have had a TRUE World War One relic, pretty much like the Museum of Science and Technology in Chicago preserves it's German U-505, the only truly intact U-boat captured by the US Navy off Africa 06/04/44.
ursa41 2 months ago
@ursa41 I'm afraid Hastings council has a long history of poor, pennypinching, decisions behind them. A harbour was started in the early 1900's to protect the beach-launched fishing fleet, but abandoned when costs spiralled and has sat slowly falling into the sea ever since.
1960totnes 2 months ago
@1960totnes What a shame! It would have been the ONLY WWI U-boat in existence!
ursa41 2 months ago
@ursa41 Absolutely correct. I used to live in Hastings and know well about this event. Apparently it was hoped to install it permanently on the seafront as a war memorial, but predictably then, as now, no-one wanted to cough up the money needed to do the job. So the sub was scrapped.
1960totnes 2 months ago
@ursa41
thank you, another question, the Sokol was used also by germany during WWII?
matteoeoeo 5 months ago
@matteoeoeo Hi. The Polish sub ORZEL (Eagle) was designed/built by the Dutch with specs similar to their O-16 boat. Ordered by Poland in 1935 and commissioned February 1939. After Germany attacked on September 01, 1939, ORZEL was ordered to abandon Gydnia and make for a British port on Sept. 14, 1939. Sunk off Norway after striking a mine June 8,1940. SOKOL was a British-designed U-class boat,loaned to ORP (Polish navy) on January 11,1941; returned intact to Royal Navy on July 25, 1945
ursa41 6 months ago
@koelschwolf My understanding is that the beached World War I U-boat (NOT the U-class sub of British design of WW II) in the slide above is the U-118. The sub and crew officially surrendered on February 23, 1919 months after the November 18th Armstice whiche ended the Great War. While under tow to France via the English channel, a violent storm snapped off the hawser dragging the boat and she ultimately ran aground at beach of Hastings, Sussex UK. She became a tourist attraction for awhile.
ursa41 6 months ago