German U-boat may be at bottom of Labrador river

[RoyalHighlander]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/07/25/nl-u-boat-labrador-discovery-725.html

Divers believe they have located WWII submarine 100 kilometres from ocean...
An important piece of history from the Second World War may be sitting in a river in Labrador.
Searchers believe they've found a German U-boat buried in the sand on the bottom of the Churchill River. The discovery has yet to be authenticated.
Two years ago, searchers scoured the bottom of the Churchill River with side-scanning sonar. They were looking for three men lost over Muskrat Falls.
When they reviewed the footage from that search, they made an unexpected discovery.
"We were looking for something completely different, not a submarine, not a U-boat — I mean, no one would ever believe that was possible," Brian Corbin told CBC News.......

[Buddahaid]

I can't make any part of a uboat in that side scan picture. It would help if it was scaled so you'd have an idea of what size of an area your looking for.

[Herr-Berbunch]

At the bow, those shadows would be the schnorkels used by the diesel engines to charge the batteries.

Really, at the bow? :hmmm:

[Ducimus]

Color me skeptical. There's entirely too many tall tales of uboats in this regard. My guess is first, make out the type of uboat. If they can make a best guess as to measurements of the object, and then compare that to the known measurements of a type 7 or type 9 uboat. Presumably its probably a type 9, or at least, they are assuming it based on the uboat overlay on the video.

Next, once you have uboat type, go through the historical record and see if there are ANY type 9 uboats that are unaccounted for that were in the general area.

heh, watch them go down there, only to find a pile of cast iron junk with old guy wires coming out of it.

[EugeneEdwards]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-184

Potential others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-209

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-420

[Buddahaid]

I must have had a bad link or they just changed the image as I can now see the superimposed uboat on the video link. That's what I had guessed they were looking at and it's a stretch of imagination I don't believe at all. Why go there? Did they get stuck inside the defenses and scuttle? No, the crew would have been found out. A snorkel means a late war boat and I find that even harder to swallow as a story.

This will prove to be something else and if it is a uboat, I would place it as a WW1 boat more likely.

[Buddahaid]

Really, at the bow? :hmmm:

I agree, this is blarney from an idiot.

[Chad]

Really, at the bow? :hmmm:

This :sign_yeah:

I watched the video, and even paused it at just the sonar scan, and I'm not buying it.

[maillemaker]

That would be some serious harbor raiding. The place is way inland.

[Ducimus]

Really, at the bow? :hmmm:

Yeah, it doesn't take a Uboat buff to see the fallacy in that statement.

That would be some serious harbor raiding. The place is way inland.

With a couple of notable exceptions, (Scapa Flow and Namkwan Harbor for example), "Harbor raiding" generally didn't occur. Less so in the Atlantic then in the Pacific.

[Platapus]

A sub at the bottom of the Labrador River? If only we had something that could retrieve it.

[mapuc]

Really, at the bow? :hmmm:

Maybe, that day they build that Uboat, Bernard was hired to help in the shipyard

Markus

[August]

Assuming it is a U-boat then what might have been the U-Boat skippers motivation for going up the river? I did a quick scan of the map and it didn't look like there was anything up that way to sink.

[Herr-Berbunch]

A sub at the bottom of the Labrador River? If only we had something that could retrieve it.


:har:

I got it, but looks like others have yet to catch on.

[u crank]

:har:

I got it, but looks like others have yet to catch on.

Woof woof. :D

[USS Drum]

Why would a U-boat commander want to go up there?

[Buddahaid]

Himmler heard Churchill was going to do some sunbathing and ordered a torpaedo up the kyster. The sub made it passed the defenses but ran aground as the Kaleun was observing some more interesting sun bathers. The sub was scuttled and the crew joined some traveling Gypsies till the wars end. :|\\

[Herr-Berbunch]

You've been reading too much Brag. :O:

[CCIP]

Well, the Germans did previously visit the coast of Labrador - and left a little present, which is now on display in Ottawa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt

Not that I'm not skeptical of course. But I say they should just go down and look at it - should be easy enough to figure it out, instead of sensationalizing everything.

[Herr-Berbunch]

But I think the U-boat angle will raise more funding than much else!