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**MFR1964** · 10-27-2012, 11:53 AM

Mark,

That thingy on the bow was called a S-gerat, a primitive forerunner for a listeningdevice, they later changed it over to both sides near the front divingplanes, giving a better angle to hear.

Manfred.

**Von Hilde** · 10-28-2012, 05:27 AM

VIIAs with external rear torpedo tubes They didnt have a rear tube between the rudders like the VIIB and later series. The thing on the bow ahead of the tube doors is an early sonar transdeucer, The boat thats getting welded on, has had it removed and the hole covered. Most likely for an upgrade of the new system, you can barely see a few of the new style transdeucer discs above the dive planes. KHB (kristalldrehbasisgerat)

**greenman407** · 10-29-2012, 11:26 AM

**greenman407** · 10-29-2012, 04:44 PM

Without digging back into the archives, thats all I have at the moment. However Im posting two links for you guys to go to and save your own pictures. A good assortment. Hope that you dont mind French.
http://www.mille-sabords.com/forum/i...pic=40300&st=0

**greenman407** · 10-29-2012, 04:47 PM

Heres another one. Make sure that you go thru all the pages and look carefully.

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**greenman407** · 10-29-2012, 04:50 PM

Ah.....why not, your a good bunch of guys. Heres another one.
http://www.fotosmilitares.org/viewto...630d469adcc9c0

**Von Hilde** · 10-30-2012, 05:46 AM

About ten minuits ago, before I logged on today, I was just thinking about how many u boat pictures you had, and wondering when you would run out. After all, there were a limited number of boats ever produced from both wars. Between your collection here and the one over on subsim, just about all the WWIIs have at least one pic. I download them for the individual boats particular details, which I utilise in my paintings and models. I always wondered where the Revell moldmaker got the idea for the prominate rivetts, and todays post, finally gave me the clue. They used the Bletchley Park museum model. Thats the tower in the close up that clearly shows the rivetts. Its a large scale metal boat, that was constructed of metal sheeting rivetted over a wood frame, instead of welded plates like on the actual boats.

**reddevil** · 10-30-2012, 06:53 AM

That means I can forget all the missing rivetts caused by sanding and erase (or at least minimize) them all? Cause it gives worst visual effect having scattered rivetts around the hull.
This can be considered the dumb ass question of the day.

**greenman407** · 10-30-2012, 08:34 AM

I probably have an additional 200 pictures in my Archives(16 GB flash drive). Ill start going thru them soon and begin reposting. You guys, feel free to post your own right here. I love all this input and participation.

**greenman407** · 11-01-2012, 08:34 AM

Here are a few that I dug out and some that I blew up and highlighted. I apologize if some of these have already been posted. Its kind of hard to keep up with all of that. If I post everyday to this I can probably post for a month and a half. However they wont all be WW2 stuff.

**Von Hilde** · 11-02-2012, 06:44 AM

The French site is great. It cleared up a few things about the type IIs. I dont know if your aware, that several were somewhat dissassembled and transported to the Black sea via bardge, thru the Danube river, and then overland to Istanbul. The cammoflage that has the graded stripes on the tower was on several of them in that area of operation. U18 being one of them. Moat were scuttled at the end of the war. I recall the Turkish Navy, (TJB) aquired one, and still had one in commission, as well as a Coal burning German built Battleship ( Yauz ) in 1961 when I was living in Istanbul. There are a couple of the scuttled ones still on the bottom in the Black Sea, that had been recently discovered by Turkish divers, in about 60 ft of water. I wonder if there are any plans to raise one, since they arn't considered war graves.

**greenman407** · 11-02-2012, 07:25 AM

VonHilde, there is a lot of stuff that Im not aware of, so keep up with your inputs, its all enjoyable to me. Thanks Istanbul? Man, you do get around.