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Dowly
03-25-06, 07:34 AM
My friend sent me loads of uboat photos. Most of them are new to me.

Here´s some of them:

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/9238/kuva14lo.jpg


A class III U-boat, propably pictured in 1917. The 105mm gun can be seen on the fore deck as well as the extended net cutter.
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9477/kuva24wv.jpg


U117 was large, ocean-going submarine designed to attack shipping in American home waters during the closing stages of World War I. Whenever required, such ships would surface and take on Allied shipping with their guns. U-117´s armament consisted of 105mm (fore deck) and a 88mm (rear deck).
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8910/kuva33le.jpg


The Deutschland, an ocean-going submarine, was designed in 1917 to operate in American home waters.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2456/kuva40ar.jpg


A U-boat tackles rough water off the Heligoland cliffs. Even though the ships is a UB-III type, the picture has often been purported to show a World War 2 submarine.
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6163/kuva50pz.jpg


I´ll be uploading more photos when I have time. :up:
con20or
03-25-06, 08:32 AM
Those are great photos, thanks for posting them. Theres a CD on ebay claimig to be of 333 photos of uboats, im tempted to buy it...
STEED
03-25-06, 08:36 AM
Interesting pics from WW1 :up:
Dowly
03-25-06, 08:48 AM
More :up: :

U-9, a type II-B belonging to U-Flotille Weddigen, pictured in the North Sea in 1937.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8963/kuva66yj.jpg


November 1930: UA and U-30 side by side in Wilhemshaven harbour.
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9743/kuva72fv.jpg


December 1939: U-48 sails back to the Kiel submarine base.
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3806/kuva86ox.jpg
Sailor Steve
03-25-06, 12:29 PM
Good stuff! Thanks. :up:
CCIP
03-25-06, 12:30 PM
Awesome!

Lovely seeing the WWI U-boats side-by-side with their WWII counterparts - since it shows how similar they in fact were. Very much a direct line of descent.

Oh, and I have a thing for that ugly bastard UA, I don't know why :lol:
Dowly
03-25-06, 05:25 PM
On 17 September 1939 the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous was torpedoed off the Hebrides by U-29 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Otto Schubart.
http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/858/kuva94by.jpg


U-47 back in Kiel Harbour, 10 days after the Scapa Flow raid. Korvetten kapitän Prien stands in the left side of the conning tower.
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/9173/kuva100df.jpg


Commanded by Kapitänleutnant Otto Schubart, U-29 sails back to Wilhemshaven in November 1939.
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/9517/kuva114jy.jpg


U-10, a type II-B in Wilhemshaven harbour in winter 1939. The ship was then commanded by O. L. Günther Lorentz.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1348/kuva127tc.jpg


A type VII in a dry dock at Brest. The silhouette of the VII was practically identical to that of their World War I elders.
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/8111/kuva135kv.jpg


Fritz Julius Lemp´s U-30 sails into the harbour of Lorient 7 July 1940.
http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/381/kuva147qc.jpg


U-65 was the first German submarine to sail into Brest harbour in August 1940.
http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/467/kuva158gz.jpg


November 1940: U-69, a type VII-C commanded by Kapitänleutnant Metzler, is about to leave for another mission. The picture was taken in Saint-Nazaire harbour a few days before the ship departed. She was sunk on 17 February 1943 by the British destroyer HMS Viscount.
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7010/kuva163jh.jpg
JetSnake
03-25-06, 06:07 PM
Hey I just downloaded that same book the other day!
Dowly
03-25-06, 06:08 PM
Hey I just downloaded that same book the other day!

Could you give the link? I´d like to get that book! :up:

Edit: Nevermind, I already found it.

Here´s the link for rest of you guys :up:
http://betah.co.il/BooksCatalog.aspx?category=

The book is in the Warships category.
con20or
03-26-06, 06:35 AM
i couldnt get that to work, is it free?
Dowly
03-26-06, 07:11 AM
is it free?

Yes.
con20or
03-26-06, 07:18 AM
Thats even more annoying!
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Dowly
03-26-06, 07:21 AM
You have problems with the site or with the book?
con20or
03-26-06, 08:09 AM
i went to the site, i presume its the "uboote" book? i click on the download link and it wont work. gives me an error message.ive just updated my virus guard,and have to fiddle with my firewall settings.
Tonnage_Ace
03-26-06, 08:35 AM
Hey I just downloaded that same book the other day!

Could you give the link? I´d like to get that book! :up:

Edit: Nevermind, I already found it.

Here´s the link for rest of you guys :up:
http://betah.co.il/BooksCatalog.aspx?category=

The book is in the Warships category.
Great link Dowly, thanks.
Dowly
03-26-06, 01:10 PM
i went to the site, i presume its the "uboote" book? i click on the download link and it wont work. gives me an error message.ive just updated my virus guard,and have to fiddle with my firewall settings.

I uploaded the file to Rapidshare, try if you can D/L it from there:
http://rapidshare.de/files/12143977/History_of_the_Kriegsmarine_U-Boats.pdf.html
con20or
03-26-06, 01:41 PM
That worked brilliant dowly, thanks.


I cant believe someone just scanned a whole book to give it away free on the net.
Dowly
03-26-06, 01:43 PM
Np, enjoy the book! :up:
kiwi_2005
03-26-06, 03:38 PM
Wow, this E-book site is great!


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Carotio
03-26-06, 06:32 PM
Great pictures! :D

Though, are you sure of the date of this picture? :know:
There is a nazi Kriegsmarine flag in the right side of the pic, and the nazis didn't get to the power before january 1933!
I presume it's 1940!

Didn't mean to critizise... :oops:

More :up: :
November 1930: UA and U-30 side by side in Wilhemshaven harbour.
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9743/kuva72fv.jpg
tbarak
03-26-06, 06:55 PM
Wow, great shots!!! :D
Kpt. Lehmann
03-27-06, 11:43 AM
Great pics!!! Keep'em coming!!! :up:
Dowly
03-27-06, 12:03 PM
Great pictures! :D

Though, are you sure of the date of this picture? :know:
There is a nazi Kriegsmarine flag in the right side of the pic, and the nazis didn't get to the power before january 1933!
I presume it's 1940!

Didn't mean to critizise... :oops:

More :up: :
November 1930: UA and U-30 side by side in Wilhemshaven harbour.


Yes, it was a typo. It supposed to be 1940. :)

@Kpt. Lehmann:

I decided to stop posting the pics, as it seems that all the photos that my friend sent me were from that book. :(

But sure, I can continue if you want... or just download the book! :up:
con20or
03-27-06, 12:36 PM
Dowly you're so selfish... :nope:
Dowly
03-27-06, 12:40 PM
Dowly you're so selfish... :nope:

Huh? What I did now? :huh:
con20or
03-27-06, 01:09 PM
Sorry Dowly, only joking, Obviously didnt manke myself clear. :-j
Dowly
03-27-06, 01:25 PM
Sorry Dowly, only joking, Obviously didnt manke myself clear. :-j

Oooh. :oops: :D
Khayman
03-28-06, 05:27 AM
I found this on a website. It said it was U-99 (Kretschmer). Can anyone tell me please if that's true? Is it Kretschmer?

http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/3739/u996yv.jpg
Dowly
03-28-06, 06:05 AM
I found this on a website. It said it was U-99 (Kretschmer). Can anyone tell me please if that's true? Is it Kretschmer?

If it´s U-99, then what are those numbers on the conning tower? :huh:

And what about that emblem on the fore conning tower? I though that Kretschmer´s boat used the horseshoe emblem. :hmm:

Another pic of the U-99, showing nothing on the fore conning tower.
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8131/otto58pn.jpg
Captain Strangelove
03-28-06, 06:07 AM
Hi Khayman.

I wouldn't be so sure that the photo shows U99. I think he was sunk in mid-1941. And at that time u-boats surely didn't have the extended flak platforms yet.

One would have to check when U123 was sunk, because I spotted that number on the conning tower. And there is a symbol as well.

The next one posting will have the solution probably.

Cheers

Kai
Khayman
03-28-06, 06:17 AM
I knew I was right to be suspicious, thanks :)

I got it from a google search for "U-99" and it came up with this site http://www.titanic-whitestarships.com/WSL-Uboat.htm. It's about three quarters down (the google image is larger than the one on the page).

Perhaps he didn't always use the horseshoe? As for the numbers, they confuse me. Surely U-boats didn't have their numbers painted so large on their conning towers? I don't think they did.

Cheers for an authentic pic of U-99 though :)
Sfinx
03-28-06, 06:41 AM
And another tiny detail, where's the deckgun? Did he ever get rid of it before he was sunk?
SmokinTep
03-28-06, 06:56 AM
Nice pics.......... :up:
Miss Behavin
03-28-06, 07:49 AM
Although I've always been interested in history and have some knowledge of the WWII era due to browsing many of my brother's books on the subject, SH3 has really whetted my appetite on the U-baot war. Can't get enough of this stuff now.

Very mesmerizing material; almost haunting in a way.

Thanks for posting these pics. Fascinating!

Cheers!

Miss Behavin'