U505 time lapse

[_Seth_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3ouqHDxgaM

The moving of U-505 (time lapse, cool)...
I just wish i could buy that sub and sail the seven seas with it....


:D


The story & museum:

http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505/index.html

[SeaWolf IV]

Its a good thing they finally decided to move the sub inside and preserve it. Too bad there is alot of rare WWII equipment that is just rusting away outside because museums cant take care of them correctly.

[_Seth_]

True, seawolf IV. Those people are dedicated in their work, and more people should follow their example. :D

[Kruger]

Seth..I think that the uboat at Birkenhead was sort of for sale at some point. They were going to scrap it...I even went to the bank to see if I could get the 200.000 euros they wanted for it....

Hey boys....wouldn't it be nice to live on such a boat ? There are so many people with money in this world.

I was dreaming the other day...let;s just suppose that money wasn't an issue. Do you think that I coud just get to Hamburg and order me a fully functional replica (except of the guns of course) of a W2 U-Boat ? I'm sure they still have the plans, but would they build it ? Or is there some kind os law that forbids this ?

[_Seth_]

Kruger: With money you can buy all you want ( in this world, it seems like....)!! Im sure someone would build a WWII german sub replica if the payment was good; It would be kind of cool to pull into the harbour besides the ferries and charter boats. Or taking your submarine out for a fishing & barbeque-trip with friends. Or renting it out to well-paying millionairs who wants to experience the life on a wwii sub (add some torpedoing of dummy-targets, and you have a winner!!).

Wish i had enough money........ I would donate the sub to SUBSIM, so everybody could be a part owner in it.

*sigh* have to win the lottery first.....:shifty:

[Kruger]

Yes...I was just checking the other day some articles on the net about the luxury yachts that some people own in this world....each of them costs about fifty times the money you would have to spend on a U-Boat replica. Anyway...dreaming is for free, it doesn't cost anything :)....so I can dream about my uboat in which I would sail the seven seas. Considering that it wouldn't be armed or anything (but it would have torpedo tubes), how many men would it need to operate ? I'd say...about ten or twelve.

[U-snafu]

Not knowing too much real life nautical skill---i would just tie it up in a marina and would love to use it as a house boat----not sure me missis would agree to the move:nope: . of course i would heavily modify the "wintergarden":rotfl:

kruger--reference the cost--take out loans and then just do "paid guided tours or chartered sails" to defray the cost:D

[HunterICX]

:roll: Well ,
before I fall Asleep I mostly sort of daydream about beeing an real Herrkaleun when i,m lying in bed.

and yes like in any dreams I,m an Legend Submarine commander Harrrrr:|\\ :arrgh!:

[Grrbob25]

I live in chicago so, i've seen the u-505 many times, its a truely beautiful vessel in person, and when you go onboard, you realise just how small everything is on a sub, the captains bed, which was the biggest, was only about 5 and a half feet long :D, about 40 years ago my dad was on board the boat, and lifted up on of the buck pillows and found a real, P08 Luger that the museum personnel had not yet found, he didnt take it ,but didnt tell the museum either, but apprently someone else found it after he did because a couple months later it wasnt there anymore.

(my family and lugers have a history, my grandfather shot a young SS officer and took his, never been fired, still perfecly blued, not even scratched luger, my dad fired it alot and it got scratches and lost is perfectness, but we can no longer find it now, and we assume my grandmother sold it, but no one is sure)

[_Seth_]

Good story; Someone is probably walking the streets of Chicago with herr kaleuns luger in their pocket...!!! AAALLAAAARM!! :up: