The Red And White Lights??
 

... sorry, i should've asked this in the other post as well, but i just remembered it.

so often i see the red and white lights in the control room... what significance did they have?

thx again...

--Mike

Wasn't the red light to help perserve the night vision for the sailors going up on watch at night?

Yeah, the red lights make it easier for the human eye to adjust to the darkness; it's most useful at night when the crew emerge out onto the conning tower.

... they didn't have anything to do with the condition of the boat, as to whether or not it rigged for diving, or anything like that?

--Mike

Nope. The red/white lights were purely for the benefit of the watch-tower crews.

Generally, red lights were only used at night, while white lights were used in the daytime.

.. ok,, thx again... just had to make sure...

i dunno where i've seen em blinking from red to white... probably in the movie u-571 :D

--Mike

We all know the deal with U-571....... :shifty:


I'm pretty sure... But I'm still wondering if anyone else has any info about this.

Also, I think blue lights were used too. If I'm not mistaken U 505 in Chicago has blue night lighting.
Going to pay another visit now that the thrill is gone from the new exhibit.
Will check it out.

Here's a pretty good description of (why):

http://www.equipped.com/nitevision.htm

cheers,

They blinked in Das Boot as well, but this was only at the LI's console to indicate engine room answer to the telegraph. I don't know if this was actually present in the Ubootwaffe, as I have never served on a U-boat.

If the sky was blue in U-571... I'd run out the door on a sunny day just to determine the historical accuracy of the sky being blue... :roll:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

U-571 was a great movie! it was as though they had actual film crews on the scene. Rarely have we seen a more honest portrayal, where the ambitions of the director are to tell a true, from the heart story of brothers-in-arms, without consideration of boxoffice draw. Hang on a sec, hard to type holding a crack pipe....

OMG, you guys are hilarious... :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

"I am U-571! Kill me!"

That message, tapped in Morse code by the tied-up German engineer on the hull of U-571 to his comrades in the destroyer above during the closing scenes has pretty much summed up my sentiments towards that movie.

"SOMEBODY PLEASE KILL U-571!"

Then we won't have to trash it anymore :D