Pictures of Your U-number
 

if you search around for pictures and you type ur U-number
and the U-number is the one ur sub is in your SH3 career what will turn up?

I found this U-9 an WW1 submarine...pretty cool picture

German Submarine U-9 (Source: PHOTOS OF THE GREAT WAR: WORLD WAR I IMAGE ARCHIVE).

http://bss.sfsu.edu/tygiel/Hist427/1.../427uboat1.jpg
picture is too large to paste it here so click the link

And they talk about the U-9 in this page that its located in Wilhelmshaven.
and here the picture of the little U-9 bugger
http://www.vth.de/Modellbau/Werft/mu...elmshaven2.jpg

source: http://www.vth.de/Modellbau/Werft/mu.../wilhelmsh.htm
German language

Here is my U-52 at Wilhelmshaven:

http://perso.orange.fr/cdasm.56/IMAGES/u52.jpg

Didnt find a pic for U106 yet
But found this :o

23 Oct, 1941
An incredibly sad event befell U-106 on this date. When the replacement watch opened the tower hatch in rough seas they found out that the entire previous tower watch of 4 men had been washed overboard. [Oberleutnant zur See Werner Grüneberg, Fähnrich zur See Herbert von Bruchhausen, Oberbootsmannmaat Karl Heemann, Matrose Ewald Brühl]
27 Jul, 1942
A Wellington aircraft (Sqdn 311/A) attacked U-106 killing the I WO Oberleutnant zur See Günter Wißmann and wounding the Commander. The boat had only left Lorient, France 2 days earlier and was forced to return, arriving on July 28.

Wish I hadnt looked now:oops:

Ahh found 1
http://www.diggerhistory3.info/coast...oastal/106.jpg

U-46 in port
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/6383/u46ts0.jpg

I wonder how the bridge got in that shape. There's a story there for sure.

Probably...I'll check and see if I can find anything out.
Checking out uboat.net I have found 2 things that might have resulted in that bridge...
First:25 Oct, 1940
3 Hudson aircraft from the 228th RAF Squadron attacked U-46 and one man was fatally wounded and died the next day. [Matrosengefreiter Plaep]

and second:
On 3 August 1940 the British submarine HMS Triad (Lt. Cm George Salt) was returning from patrol off Fedjeosen, to the north of Bergen, she spotted U-46 (Endrass) as she was sailing for patrol. Not being able to find a firing position, Triad surfaced and attacked U-46 with her 102mm gun at 2230 hours. Endrass decided not to engage and dived. Triad also dived and tried to hunt the U-boat, but both boats lost contact. HMS Triad was lost in action only 6 weeks later.

Ah, so you're the one at the helm in my boat ... ;)

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Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien
Commanding Officer, U-47. Despite a short career, one of the greatest U-boat aces of the war.

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U-47 departing Kiel. Original conning-tower insignia soon to be replaced.
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U-47 Arrives at Kiel, Germany, on 23 October 1939, with her crew at quarters. The battleship Scharnhorst is in the background.
U-47 was returning from the mission in which she sank the British battleship Royal Oak inside Scapa Flow on 14 October.


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Oblt. z. S Englebert "Bertl" Endrass
1st Officer, U-47. Later a U-boat ace in his own right.

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Prien receives the Ritterkreuz from Hitler, Oct. 18, 1939.

As you can tell my boat on my current campaign is the mighty U-47.

Type

VIIB

Laid down27 Feb, 1937Germaniawerft, KielCommissioned17 Dec, 1938Oblt. Günther PrienCommanders17 Dec, 1938 - 7 Mar, 1941 KrvKpt. Günther Prien (Knights Cross)Career10 patrols17 Dec, 1938 - 31 Aug, 1939 7. Flottille (front boat)
1 Sep, 1939 - 31 Dec, 1939 7. Flottille (front boat)
1 Jan, 1940 - 7 Mar, 1941 7. Flottille (front boat)
Successes30 ships sunk for a total of 162.769 GRT
1 warship sunk for a total of 29.150 tons
8 ships damaged for a total of 62.751 GRTFateMissing since 7 March, 1941 in North Atlantic near the Rockall Banks in approximate position 60.00N/19.00W. 45 dead (all hands lost).


Previously recorded fate (Last revised by FDS/NHB during June 1991)
There is till today not certain confirmation, how U-47 was lost. For years was it believed that the British destroyer HMS Wolverine sank U-47 on 8 March, 1941 after depth charges attacks, but the Wolverine actually attacked Eckermann's U-A. Possible reasons for the loss of U-47 include mines, by its own torpedoes or by an attack by British corvettes HMS Camellia and HMS Arbutus.

On 14 Oct, 1939 the boat made its incredible raid on Scapa Flow sinking the British battleship HMS Royal Oak.




5 Sep, 1940
The boat lost a man overboard during use of the deck gun. [MtrOGfr Heinrich Mantyk]

great pics and story's behind them

:up: keep them coming

Stop your bragging, Bernard! ;)

http://www.t2balli.de/zoom/typix/TypIX/3-04.jpg

U-504. I gotta make a sig outta that. :)

No pictures but I found out the first historicle Kapitaen on my u-boat rammed a sinking ship..:rotfl:

U-559 arrives at her base in the Med
 

No pics of U-575, however, she seemed to be quite the lucky boat. As in, one of the few that was sunk and had survivors.

8 ships sunk for a total of 36.106 GRT
1 warship sunk for a total of 1.015 tons
1 ship damaged for a total of 12.910 GRT

FateSunk 13 March, 1944 in the north Atlantic north of the Azores, in position 46.18N, 27.34W, by depth charges from the Canadian frigate HMCS Prince Rupert, the US destroyer USS Hobson, the US destroyer escort USS Haverfield, and by depth charges from a British Wellington and Fortress aircraft (Sqdn. 172/B and 206/R and 220/J) and Avenger aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Bogue. 18 dead and 37 survivors.

The Commander. Survived the war
Günther Heydemann began his naval career in April 1933. He then sailed on the line ships Schlesien and Schleswig-Holstein before transferring to the U-boat force in April 1940.

After the usual training he made two patrols as watch officer on board U-69 under the command of Kptlt. Jost Metzler.
He left U-69 in April 1941 and two months later commissioned the Type VIIC U-boat U-575. He commanded this boat on eight relatively successful patrols and sank many ships. In July 1943 he left U-575 and became a training officer in the 23rd and 25th training flotillas until the end of the war.

Picked this number at random too. :up: Shes a good one.

She was a Type VIIc and did you notice how much muscle it took to put her down? One tough old boat.

Not sure but I beleave this is a web site about U-575. Good pics!

http://www.ewetel.net/~diana.elsterm...gsberichte.htm

Its all in German and since Im a dumb ass American, the only language I speak is bad english... I cant really make heads or tails of it.