Seehund (pic heavy)
 

Some of you know I work in the transportation industry. I handle mostly government transportation. My office was tasked to transport a submarine museum that for lack of a better word, foreclosed. The museum was located in Hackensack NJ. The items required transportation to Richmond VA. One item from the museum was a a German Seehund. Here are some pictures of the Seehund loaded to be transported.

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I will have other pictures of various other items such as conning towers, etc.

Looks in a lot better shape than the one we saw at the USS Salem a few years back.

The museum items are in disrepair. Some were destroyed on site. Others very fragile. The museum was left to it's own devices for a long time. The items are US government owned. The museum was not. The owner of the museum did not look to re-up with the museum management. It was decided to demo the museum and sell the property to a builder. The museum items had to be collected and taken away.

It required 10 of our trucks to move the museum.

This is the article concerning the museum....


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/16...RMsr51FI.email

It appears we have a similar job i too am a steering wheel attendant but across the pond, nice pictures of the seehund im slated to move a helicopter in the near future if we get the job so i know what your up against 10-4 keep trucking.

What does external loaded mean? I thought all torpedo's were externally loaded.

Never mind I read the rest of the story. Wow! Maybe we should do that with new coastal submarines?

That specimen looks in pretty good shape :cool:

I noted your article and saw this one in the same site: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/09/22/last-shipwreck-from-wwis-battle-jutland-found-near-norway.html Dated 9/22 2016: I don't recall if it was previously posted or not

Quote:

The wreck of the British warship HMS Warrior — the "last shipwreck" from the Battle of Jutland during World War I — has been discovered near Norway. It is in unspoiled condition-upside down. The marine exploration team that found the shipwreck also recently located the wreck of a World War II-era British submarine in the same region.

http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnew....jpg?ve=1&tl=1HMS Warrior/with torpedo netting booms...Untouched since her sinking; a museum time-capsule! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_net

it looks like that Seehund was already a museum item during WWII. I have seen a similar Seehund with transparent windows displaying its mechanics, in a picture of a technology fair in Germany during WWII.

AVG, I visited there a couple of times. Yonkers, NY is fairly close by, so it was an easy trip. A real shame what has happened there. Even my wife enjoyed the USS Ling tour. I had hoped that the USS Intrepid could aquire the Ling, and dock her along side like other sub they have there. Very sad to say the least.

Interesting job. :up:

Were you able to look inside? That's pretty cool.

I wish I had your job! :D

I was not on sight. Although I had a representative on the ground.