:haha: that's the way new recipes are created!

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this? http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/8...2macelarge.jpg or this? http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/8898/pepperspray.jpg :D

Most likely this:

http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/mace.html

..but that's no fun :cry:
when I hear mace I only have the former images in my head...

and so the circle closes, what the link translated as Muskatlute is in fact Muskatblüte :|\\

Dallas just PM'd me with a link to pictures of his data plates:

http://web.iwebcenters.com/grenadier...tem181102.ctlg

Ah, the spelling's been wrong all the time, the L is a T and the B in the end is H; Schubstangengeh

"Press in case of emergency" ?

Just tossing a wild guess out there. :DL

No, that doesn't sound quite right. Maybe "Pull in case of emergency"...

Driveshaft geh[...] plug? Just a wild guess here...

geh short for Gehäuse maybe? So driveshaft housing stuffing box

Although I wouldn't translate Schubstange with driveshaft. I'd translate it with thrusting rod (to push the torpedo into the tube). I don't know which boat these were taken from, but I guess that plate could be from the hydraulic loading system that was used in the XXI...

I nearly forgot: it indeed says "press/push in case of emergency"

Geschwindigkeit = Speed

Notklappe bei Gefahr drücken = Press emergency hatch in case of danger

Druckausgleich = Pressure equalization

Führungsrohr lagerbock = guide tube bearing block

Mündungsklappe Lagerbock oben = Upper torpedo door bearing block

Mündungsklappe Lagerbock unten = Lower torpedo door bearing block
(upper and lower are referring to the bearing block, not to the torpedo door)

Schubstangengeh(äuse) = Push rod housing slipway

Schubstangengeh(äuse) Stopfbuchse = Push rod housing gland nut
(as said before "geh" is likely the abbreviation for Gehäuse which means housing)

Be - Entwässerungsventil (Bewässerungsventil and Entwässerungsventil)
= This is the valve that floods / unfloods (is that even a word?) the torpedo tubes

I've used an online dictionary for most of the translations as I have no idea what that stuff is called in English (I didn't even know most of the terms in German) so please excuse if some of those translation do not match the real English designations for those parts or even don't make any sense at all.:|\\

Schröder, your translation makes sense :up: In modern german an Schubstange would be a "Pleuel".

Now we have to hunt for the location of the plates. As it was taken from a shipyard in Bremerhaven, it was most likely from an unfinished type XXI.

Here is a pic of the front torpedo section:
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7...0torpedoro.jpg

Notice the photo between the right tubes. The crank which the guy uses could be the one which rotates a crankshaft which may be connected to our famous Schubstange. Another crank is found on the very right sode of the pic, at the wall.

I can't spot a plate on it, but this pic is from the Wilhelm Bauer, which was modified when the Bundeswehr used it. Maybe someone can find another pic of a XXI torpedo room, or some pics of the side/top - the plates could also be located there.

The hunt is narrowed down to two boats. There were actually two boats in Bremerhaven at the time. One was U-1197 a type VIIC and the other was U-1232 a IXC/40. Both were damaged and both of which had been captured after being decommissioned before the end of the war.

They were both towed out to sea and scuttled by the US Navy in February 1946.

Stay tuned for the next installment of...



CSI: Subsim!

This has been an amazing process to observe. You guys are awesome.

So much for the automatic reloading system....:O:

I knew an exchange student a couple of years ago, from somewhere north of Berlin I think. Or maybe west. Anyway, it was a sad day when she left :nope: