What kind of U-Boat is this?
I was watching The Cruel Sea (1953) and towards the end this U-Boat appears:
http://i45.tinypic.com/ndpikw.jpg I never saw this kind of U-Boat before. Can someone identify what type it is? |
I think that that is a RN type T boat,from the look of the diving planes ,and overall "look" of that boat, try the website list.
I found this site http://www.naval-history.net/WW2Camp...ritishSubs.htm If you look at the second picture from the top of page,it is almost the same boat |
The shots at the end of the film are actual file scenes taken after the surrender and you can identify a number of real U-Boats. However, the RN had a hand in assisting in filming, providing technical support, the frigate that played HMS Saltash and the target submarines.
Some of the air attack footage during the Arctic convoy was actually USN file footage from the Pacific. Still one of the greatest war at sea movies of all times though. You cannot go wrong with the book either. |
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Never seen the movie though. :) |
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If you like the book I would recommend his big book Monsarrat At Sea. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...9&postcount=90 |
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http://freespace.virgin.net/metcalf....ngs/Sclass.htm http://www.cyber-heritage.com/submar...hipweb/sss.jpg |
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That's strange considering they called it a u-boat and started shooting at it after it surfaced. Was it a movie mistake?
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Movie folks go with what's handy. |
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Close, but not quite. The 'Messerschmitts' were indeed Rolls-Royce powered, but they were Spanish-built Ha-1112s, built under license duing the 1950s.
No, they didn't stand in for Hurricanes. Though the Hurricane bore the brunt of the battle, in 1966 there were only three flyable airframes in the world. They used all three in the movie. The bombers were also built in Spain under license, CASA 2.111s. The sturzkampflugeugs ("Stukas") were radio-controlled models. You might as well also complain about the Spitfires, which were mostly late-war models that weren't around in 1940. As for Tora! Tora! Tora!, again not quite. All the planes were made from American trainers, and all were seriously modified to look very much like the originals. The Mitsubishi A6M2 'Zeroes' were built from AT-6 Texans (what the Brits call the 'Harvard'). Except for the join lines where the outer wing pieces meet the center section they are almost indistinguishable from the original. The Aichi D3Y 'Vals' and Nakajima B5N 'Kates' were reconstucted from Vultee BT-13 trainers, so extensively that former Lt. Cmdr. Zenji Abe, who flew a Kate at Pearl Harbor, said "... it was an exact copy of the real Val in every detail." http://www.toratoratora.com/historyrebuilt.html So you're laughing at the most exact replicas possible at the time. As for Midway, the less said about that piece of garbage the better. Yes, they did use a scene from Battle Of Britain in the movie. They also used one in Das Boot. And the attacking British planes in that movie were indeed surplus Harvards, not modified at all. |
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Like the 4-bladed Bf109 propeller, it's pretty difficult to notice, I only saw it on my fifth viewing. And I wasn't laughing at the awesome replicas, I'm quite impressed. I'm just laughing at the fact that a movie used clips from both movies. |
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Also, the 4-bladed Bf109 propeller is seen in the background when Föhn is walking to his 109 on Adler-Tag. |
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