Ray T Posted October 4, 2020 Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 (edited) Not your usual hand grenade. Authorities in Poland are preparing to neutralize a World War II-era bomb found in the water of the Piastowski Canal in Świnoujście which is located in northwestern Poland. The bomb was discovered during dredging work in September 2019. It has been identified as a Tall Boy bomb, one of the largest bombs used in WWII, and could only be delivered by an Avro Lancaster bomber. Divers from the 8th Coastal Defense Flotilla cleared the canal of smaller bombs they found in the area. The larger bomb was left while authorities worked with scientists from the Poznan University to find the safest method to remove it. https://www.ilovewwiiplanes.com/2020/09/29/tall-boy/?fbclid=IwAR2losSmnAmHlEdgsDgqs3UU_r7vbvb5vYaI2iNRvlXMbGc7PqEM2CDJia4 Edited October 4, 2020 by Ray T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy D'arth Posted October 4, 2020 Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 Magnet fishing allowed in he Polish canals? Any pictures of it going off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty40s Posted October 4, 2020 Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 Its going to take several weeks to organise everything, massive exclusion zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray T Posted October 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 Just now, Tracy D'arth said: Magnet fishing allowed in he Polish canals? Any pictures of it going off? Pawel Rodzos, the director of the Security and Crisis Management Department of the district office said that the team had determined that deflagration was the proper course of action to remove the bomb. Deflagration is the act of setting off the unexploded ordnance where it is found. He also stated that this will be the largest neutralization of a post-war unexploded bomb in Poland. The process is set to begin in mid-October. It will take several days as it will require special preparation of the facility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie57 Posted October 4, 2020 Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 One way of dredging the canal! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenataomm Posted October 4, 2020 Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 Not sure why your link behind "Bomber" goes to a cartoon about B.17s Ray. Interesting all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb Innisfree Posted October 4, 2020 Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 (edited) If they blow up this bomb it will make a big hole, Tallboy was a 12,000lb bomb and there is a large pond in the New Forest which is the remains of a crater from a Tallboy when they missed the target called the 'Submarine Pens', no one seems sure what they actuatally were but they are still there, buried at the end of WW2 as it was considered too expensive to demolish. Edited October 4, 2020 by nb Innisfree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pluto Posted October 5, 2020 Report Share Posted October 5, 2020 Back in 1998, I was told that the lefthand arch of this aqueduct on the Gliwice Canal had been primed with explosives during the war, and nobody knew if they had been removed. It was considered too dangerous to look, as an explosion would close the canal, completed in the late 1930s to bypass an earlier 18th century canal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted October 5, 2020 Report Share Posted October 5, 2020 I see it was one of ours. I hope they don't send us a bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pearley Posted October 5, 2020 Report Share Posted October 5, 2020 11 hours ago, nb Innisfree said: If they blow up this bomb it will make a big hole, Tallboy was a 12,000lb bomb and there is a large pond in the New Forest which is the remains of a crater from a Tallboy when they missed the target called the 'Submarine Pens', no one seems sure what they actuatally were but they are still there, buried at the end of WW2 as it was considered too expensive to demolish. That is Ashley Bombing Range. Well worth reading it's history of all the different bombs dropped and techniques that were practiced there. The submarine pens were constructed specifically to test Tallboy and GrandSlam. They were covered over after the war but soil erosion has uncovered the concrete edges now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted October 14, 2020 Report Share Posted October 14, 2020 They've blown it up. https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/oct/14/bomb-explodes-underwater-in-poland-75-years-after-british-air-raid-video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerra Posted October 14, 2020 Report Share Posted October 14, 2020 2 minutes ago, David Mack said: They've blown it up. I think it might be more correct to say it blew itself up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland elsdon Posted October 14, 2020 Report Share Posted October 14, 2020 Stuff was built to last in those days. None of this ‘what do you expect the guarantee has expired stuff.’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb Innisfree Posted October 14, 2020 Report Share Posted October 14, 2020 On 05/10/2020 at 10:24, pearley said: That is Ashley Bombing Range. Well worth reading it's history of all the different bombs dropped and techniques that were practiced there. The submarine pens were constructed specifically to test Tallboy and GrandSlam. They were covered over after the war but soil erosion has uncovered the concrete edges now. Cost £500,000 to build, a considerable sum then, though it wasn't big enough to be a submarine pen, maybe a scaled down version. The test bomb (22,000lb Grand Slam) was dropped from 14,00ft instead of 16,000ft to prevent it going supersonic, which would suggest that it wasn't the intention to destroy the'submarine pen', the Americans were the only ones to score a direct hit but the bomb only caused minor damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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