Recent uboat pictures

[greenman407]

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The death of U849

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Look at those cute lil conning towers, If it had wheels Ben Hur could ride it!

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Well, at least you can see whats on the menu.

Man! Somebody really bumped their noggin real good! Now their insurance is going to go up!

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Donitz looking over the boys

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Another Gonk to the head!

LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!

Type II getting a helping hand.

Whats that on the fordeck?

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Easing nature? Whats that under the deck?

A very rare picture indeed! U-180 transfering to Japanese I-28

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Previously on "I SPY" it was mentioned about the snorkle attachment on the side of the conning tower. Heres one on U-190

This is the older style of snorkle. You can see the hydraulic cylinder rod at the bottom of the picture.

The motor room looks clean and new.
The control room. These pictures were taken after the surrender of the boat to Canadian forces at the order of Donitz at wars end. This sub had just sunk a Canadian ASW vessel days previously. Four men were lost. To extract their revenge, the Canadians took U-190 to the exact coordinates that the sinking had taken place and in what was called operation "Scuttle" pounded the ship to death until it sank. It took 19 minutes. You can get more info if you google operation scuttle.http://www.uboat.net/history/u190.htm

[greenman407]

Doing the Laundry? I have read of American submariners in WW2 using "Oilskin" clothes in wet weather for watch duty. Maybe this is the same thing and they are letting them dry out.

An attempt at camouflage from air attack.

In the background you can see another attempt at camouflage from the prying eyes of aircraft.

U-234 XB captured and running in formation with their captors.

[Rpmtech1]

Some great and little seen shots there! That snorkel is interesting, how it extends and couples up with the pipe on the tower.

I think those things on the foredeck you were talking about are mine shafts...

[roedj]

Question about a schnorkel:

I see from the pix that the schnorkel has one opening. My understanding of a schnorkel is that they ought to have two pipes, one for air intake and one for motor exhaust. Yet I only see one opening.

Can anyone explain this please?

Dan

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[greenman407]

Loading up mines. The mines that you see on tv that are round and have pointy things on them dont look anything like these.

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Oh Look guys! There playing with a RC helicopter!

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The cook , dumping fish guts overboard?

This is a nice shot showing the detail of the upper spray deflector on the top edge of the conning tower. Note the difference between it and the picture three places above it in this post. I would have thought that the upper pictures deflecter would work better than this one which would still allow water to come thru right into your face.