U Boat found Off NE Scotland

[jreid666]

Hey folks, dunno if this has been already posted, but a few weeks ago the remains of a u boat were found just down the coast from me.

http://news.stv.tv/north/108185-lost-u-boat-rediscovered-by-divers-70-years-after-it-was-sunk-by-its-crew/
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured-article/lost-u-boat-rediscovered-by-divers-70-years-after-it-was-sunk-by-its-crew.html
http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/news/local-headlines/nazi-u-boat-discovered-off-buchan-coastline-1-2333368

James out

[Harald_Lange]

SUPERB, but what a way to go,sunk by Bernard whilst using the toilet...

[RConch]

Thank you for the links, I had not seen this before, and I appreciate people posting them!
Good hunting!:salute:

[Mowgli]

This is the image of U-1206 used in the article but U-1206 was a type VII.

If this is a type VII then I need to start revising my ship recognition.

http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/webimage/1.2333367.1338557663%21image/1442007452.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_595/1442007452.jpg

[Maceaciadh]

lmao i remember this on QI, it was the captain who had messed up the procedure to flushing the toilet. rummer has it he did a bad one and rather than calling the seaman/officer who knows how to flush it he had a go at it himself and got the order wrong. silly kaluen :k_rofl:

edit:

"Captain Karl-Adolf Schlitt was forced to surface the U-1206 on April 14 1945, after the on-board toilet malfunctioned.

It is believed that a member of the 50 strong crew accidentally opened the wrong valve when attempting to flush the toilet, flooding the vessel's batteries and causing a leak of toxic chlorine gas"

at least they didn't say it was actually the captain lol save him the embarrassment of sinking his own uboat with a type 2 torpedo.... if you know what i mean

edit 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nta4El__aD4
skip to 7:20

[NightCrawler]

the ship was so new that the crew didn't aware about the new panic button...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TEd3YRdxqYY/Tvt1Wwg4n1I/AAAAAAAAA6g/nyQ_9g6ZTRw/s1600/panic-button.jpg

[NightCrawler]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a176/Foehammer88/K21-1.jpg

[Maceaciadh]

actually nightcrawler it looks way more like an american narwhal class, even seems to say narwhal on the bow but you cant quite seem to make it out. furthermore the flag looks like a USA one as well

[NightCrawler]

@ Maceaciadh, i was focusing on the 2 deckguns, would be nice that the german have 2 deckguns, IXB have 1 deckgun and 1 large AA gun and 1 small AA gun...

So you saying that the British depth charged his allies? and another question are the yanks lost? must be a long trip for them i guess

[Maceaciadh]

yea it would be really good if they had 2 and loads more shells for them, you could take on lots of more merchants instead of having only 100 (IXB)also i find once you get the next conning tower the extra light gun actually makes a difference.

lol no i am just saying they are just stupid and googled WW2 submarine and posted the first one that came up which funnily enough never came anywhere near the atlantic during the war never mind britain. it also has that weird scaffolding at the back which i never learned what use it had. i never seen it on any other sub. anyone know?

[Red Heat]

This is the image of U-1206 used in the article but U-1206 was a type VII.

If this is a type VII then I need to start revising my ship recognition.

http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/webimage/1.2333367.1338557663%21image/1442007452.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_595/1442007452.jpg

Very strange in did...i mean the image they use in the article.
This is about the U-1206 by uboatnet:

http://uboat.net/boats/u1206.htm