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Originally Posted by Chock
Although it is a shame that the boat has been cut up, and it does mean you can no longer walk from stem to stern inside her, I think you have to understand what a very poor state U-534 was in. I was fortunate enough to go on a tour of U-534 a few years ago when it was with the Birkenhead Historic Warships Collection, and very cool it was too, but it was apparent from the tour that structurally, this was a state of affairs which could not continue indefinitely, and it would have been massively expensive to try and restore the thing in one piece
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And that why i did show You this. I have visited U -534 in Birkenhead Historic Warships on 5th of may 2005. It was unforgettable tour. The state as You described was same since sub was raised from sea bed, and it was will of her owner who have payed. The conning tower was made new, as submarine recieved almost direct hit by depth charge, and original tower was half destroyed. But some time ago musuem of Historic Wasrhips had to face closure. Why ? OMG, i cant believe it even now. The area was needed for parking places for nearby warehouses. This is good enough for dumb ignorant close down museum and cut one of 3 submarines on the world just because space for parkings is needed and then they have no idea what to with this dumb german sub. Then someone got better idea. Lets place her near to ferry termnal, but wee will have to pay fortune for logistic, unless we gonna cut her into three pieces.