U-534 Sliced open with giant cheese wire!

[waldopbarnstormer]

Here is a link I found to an article in my local newspaper. It regards U-534 which has been bought by Mersey ferries and is now on display to the public.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/...4375-20633118/

I thought people would find this interesting, and it would be a great chance to take a look inside a real WW2 sub.

[M. Sarsfield]

I'm more interesting in all of the artifacts that they recovered from inside.

[jdkbph]

I dunno.... just seems like such a damned shame to cut up. I wonder if 100 or more years from now people will be looking at this piece of history beyond living memory and wondering what the hell we were thinking.

JD

[M. Sarsfield]

In the video on the website they said that they couldn't afford the cost of moving it in one piece. It wasn't sea worthy.

[Quillan]

I've seen pictures of it when it was at Birkenhead. It wasn't really restored; the outer hull was still rusted and holed. I imagine moving it in one piece would have been extremely difficult.

http://uboat.net/gallery/index.html?gallery=U534B

[M. Sarsfield]

They had to put the Batfish on several barges to move it up the Arkansas River to its current berth. The boat is still able to float, though. Back in 1973 I think it took about $500,000 to pull that off. I can imagine the price today.

[basilio]

Originally Posted by Quillan

I've seen pictures of it when it was at Birkenhead. It wasn't really restored; the outer hull was still rusted and holed. I imagine moving it in one piece would have been extremely difficult.

http://uboat.net/gallery/index.html?gallery=U534B

I was looking at the pictures from the above link and......
...I saw this one......
http://uboat.net/gallery/index.html?...534B&img=2
I was always laughing while looking at the sailors with this strange t-shirt from the SH4 U-boat mission addon....now I realize they are "historically correct"