historical question

[Tozzifan]

did real UBoats ever pass through the English Channel?

[Clay Fever]

Early in the war before the ocupation of France they had to either move trough the channel or the north sea to get to the atlantic. It was a dangerous voyage through the channel and there are sunken many u-boats there to prove it.

http://uboat.net/maps/channel.htm

[Gammel]

Hi,

have a look here:

http://uboat.net/maps/channel.htm

[Gammel]

hehe Clay Fever we posted same time! :P

[joea]

So when u-boats were first transferred to the French bases...or later on new boats sent to join their flotillas in France from Germany...I assume they went the long way around instead of hugging the coast on the occupied side? :hmm:

[Tozzifan]

(thanks) just a carnage :huh:

[Ginger Beer]

So when u-boats were first transferred to the French bases...or later on new boats sent to join their flotillas in France from Germany...I assume they went the long way around instead of hugging the coast on the occupied side? :hmm:

Boats transferring from Germany to the French Atlantic ports, and newly built boats heading to the flotillas based there, would usually do a patrol in the North Atlantic first, then proceed to which ever French base they'd been assigned to.

[Kalach]

Was it possible to send them by rail? Or would that be a waste of time with no chance of sinking anything.

[don1reed]

@Tozzifan:

...to answer your question...

Yes. In both World Wars.