Wanna see inside a U boat?

[WotEver]

I just stumbled across this article. There are some amazing photos in amongst all the ads. Thought some of you might like it: https://m.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/want-to-see-inside-a_uboat.html

[zenataomm]

Interesting, thanks for posting.

[Nightwatch]

I just stumbled across this article. There are some amazing photos in amongst all the ads. Thought some of you might like it: https://m.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/want-to-see-inside-a_uboat.html

Looks very nice and clean and tidy.

[Laurie Booth]

Fantastic post.

[cereal tiller]

I just stumbled across this article. There are some amazing photos in amongst all the ads. Thought some of you might like it: https://m.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/want-to-see-inside-a_uboat.html

Wonder if they used Das Trojan batteries?

[Peter X]

As batteries are plural, it would be Die not Das. They would have known, they were actual grammar Nazis.

[john6767]

If you are interested in this and you find yourself in Chaigo then the Museum of Science and Industry has U-505 on display. You get to walk through it. The rest of the museum is very good as well.

 

http://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/u-505-submarine/on-board-tour/

[blackrose]

I went inside a Russian WW2 sub when I was in Kaliningrad about 10 years ago. Part of the Baltic fleet.

 

Some pictures on trip advisor:

 

B-413 Submarine Museum https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/544631?m=19905Naberezhnaya Petra Velikogo1, Kaliningrad 236006 Russia

Edited January 21, 2017 by blackrose

[Ray T]

I can't manage links on this note book but there is also the disected U 534 at Birkenhead.

[1st ade]

And https://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/ in Gosport.

 

(Just don't make the mistake we did of going into HMS Alliance and wondering why the friends we had arranged to meet didn't phone. When they arrived we hadn't phoned back so they went into HMS Alliance just as we phoned them back. And wondered why they didn't answer...)

[I Spartacus]

Nice pictures and thanks for sharing them, I went on a sub down in Gosport many years ago, boy it was cramped

[Bee]

I went into that sub down in Gosport a few years back, guided tour with half a dozen others. It was cramped with just us few and every time you moved you banged your head on some valve or something that would probably sink the thing. Firmly convinced that boats are supposed to bob along on the surface. Anything else is sunk.

[I Spartacus]

I went into that sub down in Gosport a few years back, guided tour with half a dozen others. It was cramped with just us few and every time you moved you banged your head on some valve or something that would probably sink the thing. Firmly convinced that boats are supposed to bob along on the surface. Anything else is sunk.

I was just trying to work it out how long ago it was ! it was in 1971 the first school holiday staying on a big old boat moored

in Portsmouth harbour, sleeping in hammocks and going sailing as kids did in those days. It was HMS Dolphin then, and I remember

one of the subs sank later in the year. Just can't remember the name of the boat we stayed on. O those were the days.

[Arthur Brown]

There certainly was a Brit sub on display with some opening hours and tours in Chatham dock yard. It was a post war design so had probably spent much of it's life off Norway watching and listening to Sov Bloc activity.

[Paringa]

I am not long back from a trip to Tallinn Estonia, and at their Hydroplane museum they show a Brit built sub in the main hall....you can still smell the oil.

 

http://www.visitestonia.com/en/seaplane-harbour-estonian-maritime-museum

 

Edited to add a link...

 

And to do my bit for tourism, Tallinn is well worth a visit.

Edited January 21, 2017 by Paringa

[Nightwatch]

I was just trying to work it out how long ago it was ! it was in 1971 the first school holiday staying on a big old boat mooredin Portsmouth harbour, sleeping in hammocks and going sailing as kids did in those days. It was HMS Dolphin then, and I rememberone of the subs sank later in the year. Just can't remember the name of the boat we stayed on. O those were the days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Foudroyant_(1798)?

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wq6GRfGuxRk

Edited January 21, 2017 by Nightwatch

[Athy]

I remember one of the subs sank later in the year.

How could they tell?

As batteries are plural, it would be Die not Das. They would have known, they were actual grammar Nazis.

[I Spartacus]

Ha Ha Just started a thread on the old boat, was thinking of the name of it all morning finally remembered. Now the Trincomlee at Hartlepool. Google is good .

[Slim]

I can't manage links on this note book but there is also the disected U 534 at Birkenhead.

 

 

 

 

Some years ago I had the amazing experience of having a guided tour of the inside of U 534 in Birkenhead before it was cut up into 3 ? parts and screened off. It had been left in it's original state after it had been lifted and you could still see personal possessions, tools, equipment etc. Throughout the boat you could see tide marks where the water level had reached. The most touching point was in the aft torpedo room where a seam had been fractured and was the cause of it's sinking. There were large wooden wedges scattered around with some of them driven into the fracture in an attempt to stem the leak.

 

If you Google U 534 you will find the full story.

 

 

Frank

Edited January 21, 2017 by Slim

[cuthound]

I went aboard a Russian sub whilst on a business trip to Hamburg.

 

Having only seen submarines in war movies prior to this, I was surprised at how tightly packed everything was, the conning tower was the only area you could easily stand up in!

[system 4-50]

There certainly was a Brit sub on display with some opening hours and tours in Chatham dock yard. It was a post war design so had probably spent much of it's life off Norway watching and listening to Sov Bloc activity.

Ocelot? Yes, Ocelot. Well worth a visit.

Edited January 21, 2017 by system 4-50

[roggie]

Many years ago a U Boat was moored by the Thames Barrier and open to visitors, I went along and it was very cramped, with a enormous pace for all the batteries. Access was 'interesting' via the conning tower given the various sizes of people these days plus if you followed someone out who was wearing a skirt you gave them plenty of space. Pre digital camera days though.

 

Looks like it was there in 1997 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_U-475_Black_WidowNow rusting away on the Medway.

Edited January 21, 2017 by roggie

[Red2000]

http://www.u-boatstory.co.uk

 

This is based at Birkenhead, over the water from Liverpool. Worth a trip if in Liverpool. Just a couple of stops on Merseyrail.

[David Mack]

http://www.u-boatstory.co.uk

 

This is based at Birkenhead, over the water from Liverpool. Worth a trip if in Liverpool. Just a couple of stops on Merseyrail.

Or take the Mersey Ferry - its located at fhe Woodside Ferry Terminal.

[Ray T]

There is of course Das Boot. It had authentic interior scenes.

 

 

The sound quality is a bit iffy but the film was highly acclaimed on release.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot

 

Lorther-Gunther Bucheim,was actually a war correspondent aboard U96, upon which the book Das Boot was based.

 

He also published a book with many photographs of his war patrol, "U-Boat War"

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/U-Boat-War-Lothar-Gunther-Buchheim/dp/0517606712/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485111446&sr=1-8&keywords=U+boat+war