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  • Albacore 569
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    Added 1/8" x 1/8" C rail brass into fairwater. Preformed the brass to fit (curve at top) Sliced Fairwater open with cutting disk in hand piece, Ca glued and added baking soda to ca glue - rock solid. Puttied with Bondo...sanded primed. Slot is for a towing cable with release from bridge to towline in bow. I'll add the hand rails and glass folding window against the sea and spray next. then lights. White Ensign (silk flag) arrived from UK yesterday. The boats name plates in brass being delivered soon. Leaving those off till nearer end of build and testing. Steve

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  • He Who Shall Not Be Named
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    Originally posted by Albacore 569
    Captain Albert Mumma USN in Command of the Naval Technical Mission in Europe (with side arm).standing next to his new 'Trophy Scientist' and 'new best friend' (lol) Professor Helmuth Walter. Looks like the British had found Walter about the same time (standing in background judging from their uniforms). Photo taken May 5th, 1945 when Walter was 'captured' the day before Nazi Germany officially surrendered.

    Mumma had a long impressive technical career in the US Navy. Mumma was in early in the US Navy's starting nuclear submarine program till 1948, Pushed the Albacore submarine concepts, later became Rear Admiral Bureau of Ships. These were exciting daring times as the war was ending. Technical missions tear assing around roads in Germany without many maps, franticly looking for & finding German scientists, the situation fluid - often going behind enemy lines. See the good movie 'The Monuments Men' to get the flavor of what it must have been like. Except here, the targets to be recovered were not art treasures , but another kind of treasure.,
    Stop toying with us, you *** tease! Write this up in a book!!!!!

    Do it now! Before we all croak!

    David
    Don't let this **** fad away...

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  • Albacore 569
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    Captain Albert Mumma USN in Command of the Naval Technical Mission in Europe (with side arm).standing next to his new 'Trophy Scientist' and 'new best friend' (lol) Professor Helmuth Walter. Looks like the British had found Walter about the same time (standing in background judging from their uniforms). Photo taken May 5th, 1945 when Walter was 'captured' the day before Nazi Germany officially surrendered.

    Mumma had a long impressive technical career in the US Navy. Mumma was in early in the US Navy's starting nuclear submarine program till 1948, Pushed the Albacore submarine concepts, later became Rear Admiral Bureau of Ships. These were exciting daring times as the war was ending. Technical missions tear assing around roads in Germany without many maps, franticly looking for & finding German scientists, the situation fluid - often going behind enemy lines. See the good movie 'The Monuments Men' to get the flavor of what it must have been like. Except here, the targets to be recovered were not art treasures , but another kind of treasure.,
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  • Albacore 569
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    Originally posted by He Who Shall Not Be Named
    Steve, have you started a book? You're doing a deep dive on peroxide plants and the people involved. I hope so! Something from V80 up to the Type-18 I hope.

    David
    Hell that's a good Idea David. 'Evolution for speed': V-80 to Albacore'. I just made that up. I just enjoy digging and learning about something, I see what I can find sometimes. The British Intel report I shared earlier in back mentioned the list of Germans scientist engineers 'adopted' by the western Allies as part of the 'Naval Technical Mission in Europe' Lead by Captain Albert Mumma USN.

    So compelling was the Walter concept in its possibilities foreseen then, the Walter shops were even visited by Britain's First Sea Lord Cunningham & America's Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal.

    The United States had seized U-1406 as part of the Potsdam agreements on U-boats - transported to Maryland where the Walter turbine was dismantled & examined. But it would be the British that really pursued the Walter submarine concept to even restoring a operational submarine test subject (U-1407) with leadership in its development by Walter and his associates. The result was HMS Meteorite. Steve
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  • He Who Shall Not Be Named
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    Steve, have you started a book? You're doing a deep dive on peroxide plants and the people involved. I hope so! Something from V80 up to the Type-18 I hope.

    David

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  • Albacore 569
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    Manfred? Would you know the roles of Lench & Ulrich in the above photo please?

    Thank you

    Steve

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  • Albacore 569
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    The Fairwater name plate & the HMS Meteorite's 'ships crest'. Its nice that even being a Ex U- Boat & what it represented to the people in the United Kingdom nearly starving them out during the war, the Royal Navy accorded the newly refurbished HMS Meteorite its own ships crest as well...as a brief notable blip in RN submarines history. Professor Walter and his staff brought their families to live in Barrow in Furness living in fairly free but monitored guests of the UK. Barrow was night bombed a few times during the war situated at the extreme range of Luftwaffe bombers. So it must have taken a bit of getting used to to have some German families among the citizens of Barrow 1945-1949. Later Walter would emigrate to the United states.

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  • Albacore 569
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    Todays work above.... Mahogany decking CA glued to under frame. Wood painted and sealed. I saw a little cap on a primaer paint can nozzle about 2 mm square that will make a nice little bridge crew urinal - you peed into the funnel and it washed away under the casing into the sea. A gimballed compass and some gages, cable conduits and all ready to slide the fair water (pre painted inside) over the deck. The periscope will be fixed (not raising or lowering) but it has a metal thread I added to screw the periscope mast inti the hull and remove for transport.

    The fair water needs a cable track for a tow line release, the side railings and arriving soon, the new brass 3 d printed side name plates for the boat to be added after the boat is near done.
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  • Albacore 569
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    Mahogany decking laid down in sections after set and glued in my fixture first. Laid athwartships per plans. A 3D Printed 1/32 scale hinged U-Boat hatch placed on top from Shapeways.

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