That's very cool that you have such access to a piece of history like that. Is it resting literally in the fjord, underwater, or is it a museum ship?

The closest WW2 submarine to me is hundreds of miles way. I'm happy to have visited two, though, in my day.

The submarine left for Japan in late 1945. It had blueprints of late nazi weapons like the Me262 and the V2 rocket. It also had several containers of floating mercury. Just outside Bergen at a place called Fedje the U-boat was sunk by a British submarine. Today it rests below the surface at a depth of 250 meters. The inhabitants of Fedje want the submarine raised because the floating mercury is leaking from the wreck.

They plan to raise the sub next year and I'm really looking forward to post some pictures here on this forum:up:. That's about all I know. :smug:

And by the way, the submarine is the only one in WWII to be sunk by another submarine while both were underwater. The British really had one lucky shot :rock:

Oh, THAT Type IX! I remember reading about it elsewhere in the forum. Be sure to take as many pics as you can for those of us who can't be there in person. :D

Raising the boat, on it's own, is something of a historical event. It'll be cool for you to be there when it happens. Are they planning on making it a museum or anything once it's raised?

The ship is blasted in half but I think they will put things like the periscope and the conning tower at a museum in Bergen :yeah:

Look at this picture
http://www.nmf.no/images/u864_kystverket_620b.JPG

And here is a sonar image of the wreck
http://www.johnelkington.com/weblog/U864.jpg

Cool!

17 tons of mercury in the middle? Yikes...

I'm thinking they are going to make a *FORTUNE* off of that floating mercury, which is exceedingly rare...

VIIC is may fav. actually more than a fav. she is like an obsession for me...
I like her creepy demonic unlucky shape and her abilities also :)

That reminds me, I should send my wife some flowers...


Seriously, though, I like the boats in the following order:

VII
II
XXI
IX

Just never got into the IX. I have yet to try a XXIII. I hope they are native to SHV though, they seem like they would be *FUN*.

my fav is VIIB slightly faster than VIIC, and that net cutting stuff on the bow... i wonder if you can make a hole in the anti-sub net with it????

Last time I collided with an anti-submarine net it was like colliding with a stone wall... :wah:

Just moved up from a VII to a IXC. What a pig. :down::nope:

Takes forever to dive or surface. Have to blow ballast 2 or 3 times just to get to peri depth from 75 mtrs useing ahead full too. btw the diving time in F1 isn't even close. :haha:

A balloon could sink faster.

Will gladly lose the renoun to get Good Ole VII back. :woot:

The IXB or C is only good in long range patrols for obvious reasons. :know:

The VII is the best in town boat. :yep:

IX-B

Good load of torpedos, speed, AA weapons, and range. :yeah:

Definitely type IX D2, I take endurance over mobility.

Well for me and my crew and my kind of missions...its the VII B, for me its the best of the best! :salute: