The British Admiralty's initial reaction to the scuttling was 'Where they are sunk, they will rest and rust. There can be no question of salvaging them'. But the wrecks were a hazard in a major naval anchorage, and a few local boats found themselves going aground on the submerged hulls. Those that had been beached were removed almost immediately. Most of the submerged ships were salvaged in the 1930s. However, some harvesting of metals continued in the 1970s.

The remaining German ships still in place there are the battleships SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm, SMS Markgraf, and SMS Konig; and the light cruisers SMS Brummer, SMS Bremse, SMS Coln, SMS Karlsruhe, and SMS Dresden.

Yep, a type XXIII, but not player playable in GWX3.0

What an amazing memory......I had to think back there :)

I played XXIII and fired only two torpedoes and even sunk something in 17th Flotilla !:up:

Keep in mind to the war powers had SO MUCH scrap that they didnt know what to do with it all. Literally 1000's of tanks just rotted away in Germany (both allied and German) because there were so many of them.

In GWX3.0 http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/181...kbigsw1yo4.gif

GWX + Flotilla Mod GWM

Ah, right http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

They could have a place as storage or graveyard for all U-boats, but why scuttled them at sea? Some or many were too deep to salvage rather than scuttle them at harbor like Scapa Flow after WW1. Why didn't U-boats dock at docks and have someone to scuttle or deal with them instead of their crew? Most of them today are probably too rusty to pull out. If we had meth heads back then, most or all of them probably would be salvaged already. Meth heads would do anything for a metal into cash nowadays.

What's a 'meth head'.....pray tell :hmmm:

Meth is short for methamphetamine, its a very addictive drug, and growing problems in United States. More info about it here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine Meth heads tend to collect or steal metals & coppers from anything they can get their hands on and sell them at scrap metal yards for cash to feed their habits.

Rgr that :up:

A huge amount of subs were scuttled by crews in German ports BEFORE the war officially ended
The operation deadlight subs are mostly sunk off Ireland and were either used as target practice for the Squid or other WIP Br weapons or blown up with explosives

Round these parts it's Gypsies that rip off anything metal.
My Great Aunt was Leading Wren on HMS Fowey Castle (Castle Class Corvette) based out of Faslane and escorted HMS Northumberland during Operation Deadlight. She also acted as interpreter during the interrogation of U-Boat crews after surrender.