What is it?

Checkmate King 2 · 12-29-07, 02:17 AM

Does anyone have any idea what is pictured on the deck of the sub that is between the deck gun and the bow?

Bridger · 12-29-07, 02:22 AM

Could be the 5 man life rafts that were stored in watertight containers on the fwd casing, these were fitted to type VIIC/41.

candy2500 · 12-29-07, 02:32 AM

they better uncover that then cause it looks like there going to need it soon..

CCIP · 12-29-07, 02:50 AM

Actually that's just a Type XB minelayer, which actually mostly served as resupply boats from 1942. This diagram on Uboat.net shows those mine tubes rather well http://uboat.net/types/illustrations/xb_2d.gif

Brag · 12-29-07, 06:57 AM

How about outside torpedo storage?

Penelope_Grey · 12-29-07, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Brag

How about outside torpedo storage?

LOL brag... if its a mine layer... chances are they are there for the mines to pop out through.

linerkiller · 12-29-07, 07:58 AM

I think that Bridger is right....If you give a look to the Tomi-Wolfehunter's VIIC/41 overworked model, you will see it....Maybe I'm wrong, but the deck is too narrow for a type X

Pablo · 12-29-07, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by linerkiller

I think that Bridger is right....If you give a look to the Tomi-Wolfehunter's VIIC/41 overworked model, you will see it....Maybe I'm wrong, but the deck is too narrow for a type X

Hi!

I think CCIP is correct: click on the link he provided and take a close look.

the holes forward of the deck gun match the number and location shown on the Type IXB minelayer
There are two deck guns, one forward and one aft of the conning tower, where the most the Type VII (any variant) ever had one, and the Type VIIC/41 did not have one at all.

There is a way to verify it, too:

Go to http://www.uboat.net and find the details on the Type XB U-boat, specifically, the fates of each of the eight Type IXB boats. Hint: you're looking for one that was destroyed by aircraft and which likely had some survivors since the U-boat in the picture is on the surface. It's probably not U-117, since that one was submerged (no survivors) when it was sunk by a homing torpedo. Ah, here's one that seems to fit: U-118.
Go to http://www.google.com and search for images of U-118. Voilà: http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-118.htm
Hey! It's the same photo! Bingo!

Pablo

bigboywooly · 12-29-07, 08:48 AM

Smartass Pablo

:rotfl: :rotfl:

On the ball as ever

Checkmate King 2 · 12-29-07, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by CCIP

Actually that's just a Type XB minelayer, which actually mostly served as resupply boats from 1942. This diagram on Uboat.net shows those mine tubes rather well http://uboat.net/types/illustrations/xb_2d.gif

CCIP & Pablo,

You guys are good!!!!

This is the caption I found with the picture:

U-118 sunk by VC-9 aircraft from USS Bogue June 12, 1943

Blacklight · 12-29-07, 02:53 PM

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This is the caption I found with the picture:

U-118 sunk by VC-9 aircraft from USS Bogue June 12, 1943

My caption would have been....
"HOLY {Insert expletive here} !!!!"

This picture looks like a screenshot of the entirety of my last career !

SurfnSea · 12-29-07, 03:53 PM

Hey guys you should read the interrogation of survivors report that goes with the links given above. Very interesting reading about the career of U-118. The link below should take you there.

http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-118INT.htm

Uncle Goose · 12-29-07, 07:43 PM

Interesting stuff to read but I think some things don't match up, like 400meter diving depht?? Harharhar, must have giventhe ASW guys some worries.

Another things that struck me (with a little sadness) is that one Maschinengefreiter was acounted for to be lost but nobody know his name or age, strange thing in suchs a tight community.

Blacklight · 12-30-07, 01:05 AM

Looking at the zig zag path that guy is doing. I would have crash dived long before. Why the hell is he staying on the surface !?!

12-30-07, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Blacklight

Looking at the zig zag path that guy is doing. I would have crash dived long before. Why the hell is he staying on the surface !?!

According to what I'd read, they'd already been damaged in a prior attack. That's not a wake you see but the oil slick they're leaving behind. There are several reasons they might be on the surface: damaged electric engines, damaged compressors and no reserve compressed air, damaged pressure hull just to name a few. I'm sure if they'd been able to submerge they sure would have!

12-29-07, 02:17 AM	#1
Checkmate King 2 Helmsman Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 109 Downloads: 184 Uploads: 0	What is it? Does anyone have any idea what is pictured on the deck of the sub that is between the deck gun and the bow?

12-29-07, 02:22 AM	#2
Bridger Mate Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 59 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 0	Could be the 5 man life rafts that were stored in watertight containers on the fwd casing, these were fitted to type VIIC/41. __________________ "It is the duty of every captain to have faith in his men" Kapitanleutnant Wolfgang Luth.

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12-29-07, 02:50 AM	#4
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Actually that's just a Type XB minelayer, which actually mostly served as resupply boats from 1942. This diagram on Uboat.net shows those mine tubes rather well http://uboat.net/types/illustrations/xb_2d.gif __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

12-29-07, 06:57 AM	#5
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12-29-07, 07:58 AM	#7
linerkiller Captain Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Modena,Italy Posts: 486 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	I think that Bridger is right....If you give a look to the Tomi-Wolfehunter's VIIC/41 overworked model, you will see it....Maybe I'm wrong, but the deck is too narrow for a type X __________________ "A hard drill makes an easy battle" Alexander V. Suvorov "When we realized that our clubbing and kickings were being administered by the burned, mutilated survivors of our handiwork, we found we could take it with less prejudice." Captain Richard "Dick" O'Kane-USS Tang http://www.youtube.com/user/willembrock

12-29-07, 08:48 AM	#9
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12-29-07, 03:53 PM	#12
SurfnSea Electrician's Mate Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 137 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Hey guys you should read the interrogation of survivors report that goes with the links given above. Very interesting reading about the career of U-118. The link below should take you there. http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-118INT.htm

12-29-07, 07:43 PM	#13
Uncle Goose Torpedoman Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Belgium Posts: 113 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Interesting stuff to read but I think some things don't match up, like 400meter diving depht?? Harharhar, must have giventhe ASW guys some worries. Another things that struck me (with a little sadness) is that one Maschinengefreiter was acounted for to be lost but nobody know his name or age, strange thing in suchs a tight community.

12-30-07, 01:05 AM	#14
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Looking at the zig zag path that guy is doing. I would have crash dived long before. Why the hell is he staying on the surface !?! __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"