The Exclusive IX U-Boat club

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Genghis Khan

I think all U-Boats have got their own spirit.Some of them are very successfull,some get sunk during the first patrol.And some of them are immortal and mystic - like Type IXB U-123 U-Boat.

Just look into those facts:

* 12 patrols and over of 220 000 tonns sunk during the whole war.
* Scuttled in August,1944.
* After lying on the bottom for a whole year,the U-Boat is raised by French forces in 1945 and becomes a submarine of the French Navy.
*Another 14 years of service until 1959.
*Nobody knows where the U-Boat is now,as it was decomissioned in 1959.

Will anybody say that this U-Boat is not of the very special kind?

If it were that special....surely somebody would know of it's fate :hmm: