U-boats to the black Sea

First of all, I thought about posting this to the propper Silent Hunter Forums first, but then saw they lack a general discussion topic to put the pictures. If there is a better place to post these, my apologies and please feel free to move the thread.

However, "Der Spiegel" brought a nice article about the Operation around the transportation of several U-boats from the german coasts to the black sea, covering a distance of 2500 km all together. The boats could not travel by sea because the Bosporus was blocked by neutral Turkey, a condition favored by the germans because it kept the russians in the black sea and kept the british out.

Highly interesting pics imho




Here the boats are "floated up". This boat and the one behind were the first going from Kiel harbor down to the black sea.


The heavy transports with the U-Boats reached a maximum speed of around 8km/h.




The boats were transported both on road and by rivers. Here one of the boat is unloaded into the Danube




Some boats were tugged, others were driven on their own


Emblem of U-18, showing a Torpedo shattering a soviet red star. The boat sankt itself in 1944 when the soviets overran the romanian sea ports.


U-19 in Konstanza (english name?)


Another boat that sank itself near the turkish coast. The crew was interned there for the rest of the war.

U-24's last Kaleun, Rudolf Arendt, back in Turkey near the place the boats were sunk.


Hope you like!


The article can be found here:
http://einestages.spiegel.de/externa...#featuredEntry