wow! it looks so big.....

[She-Wolf]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271907/Haunting-pictures-U-boat-washed-beach-WWI-sailed-France.html

[Webster]

preliminary shot accross the bow guys .... :timeout:


the setup is begging for silly comments but this isnt the general topics section so lets keep the comments on topic please lol

[AVGWarhawk]

Are the people might be small! We can say that this must have been a sight to those folks on the beach.

[fireftr18]

Too bad they couldn't do something useful with it. For a museum or other kind of display.
She-Wolf, the boat does appear larger than one would expect.

[Cybermat47]

Woah! I didn't think there were any WW1 boats that big apart from the Deustchland!

[Armistead]

Don't recall seeing that, thanks for the post...

[She-Wolf]

Webster - I was a bit thoughtless there, sorry - just my honest reaction. My little 'Rotbile' from SH3 never looked anything like that for size, and the S-class I am occupying now - yet that was a WW1 vessel...

Thank you for your coming alongside comment Fire :)

[Sailor Steve]

U-118 was a Type UE-2 boat. about five meters longer and one meter higher than a Type IXB.

[Webster]

Webster - I was a bit thoughtless there, sorry

no worries, we all have moments where we say things and dont realise how we said it until we read it later :har:

i knew it was unintended mistake and just didnt want you getting a bunch of junior high school responses

[Webster]

U-118 was a Type UE-2 boat. about five meters longer and one meter higher than a Type IXB.


i was thinking maybe they just made em bigger in ww1 :hmmm:

[captgeo]

yes, they all look so much larger out of their realm.:o

check this Oberon boat out

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=201580

[Armistead]

Pictures can make things look bigger than they actually are, but I had no clue the Germans had a WW1 sub that big. I never played Uboats, read some books, but was this type out of service by WW2? I assume the German WW2 subs were all somewhat smaller.

[Sailor Steve]

Some of them were pretty big.
http://www.uboat.net/wwi/types/

[TorpX]

yes, they all look so much larger out of their realm.:o


Yes, I think this is true.

When I first saw the U-505 (as a kid), it seemed enormous to me, and to most people, I think. Later, seeing it again, much smaller. Here, it is beached and the whole boat is sticking up, and appears very tall. At sea, if you saw it next to a larger ship, it would probably seem small.

[Wolferz]

Them things weren't dinghies.:eek: