type IX's with a cut back fore deck?

kurfürst · 02-10-09, 02:16 AM

Interesting thread!
Here are some more photos:

and a drawing with the top view on the deck and a sideview of the hull with the "Schnelltauchback":

Would be great if this feature could be modded into the hull of a IX C!
Perhaps somebody can do it?

Cheers, Kurfürst

UberTorpedo · 02-10-09, 09:57 AM

kurfürst

Where did you get that blueprint diagram ?

Most excellent!

cheers

kurfürst · 02-10-09, 10:34 AM

Danke, UberTorpedo!

It´s taken from the book "Vom Original zum Modell: U-Boottyp IX" (From the original to the model: U-boattype IX).
Highly reccomendable book with lots of drawings and photos!

Cheers, Kurfürst

Freiwillige · 02-10-09, 12:10 PM

Thank you both Uber torpedo and Kurfurst. I really enjoy learning such things. It was not untill I got said book that I learned of the type I Unterseeboot exsistance.

Kurfurst from IL2? If so good to see you here too.

Jimbuna · 02-10-09, 01:26 PM

Some cracking photos guys

Murr44 · 02-10-09, 05:45 PM

U-190, an IXC/40, had this modification done at the Deschimag yard at Bremen sometime between October 1944 and January 1945.

Source: Another Place, Another Time: A U-boat Officer's Wartime Album
Werner Hirschmann with Donald E. Graves
Robin Brass Studio/Chatham Publishing 2004
pg. 217

There are several photos in this book showing the modification to good effect. This is a really worthwhile title. Lots of previously unreleased photos and an appendix entitled "The Type IXC/40 U-boats: U-190 and U-889: A Pictorial Tour". Everything that you ever wanted to know (and then some) about this type.

UberTorpedo · 02-10-09, 08:05 PM

Maybe someone that has one of the above mentioned books could answer this question for me...

I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the Allies didn't know that this U-boat variation even existed
until the first sub surfaced and surrendered at the end of WWII?

02-10-09, 02:16 AM	#1
kurfürst Chief Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Guetersloh, Germany Posts: 310 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 0	Interesting thread! Here are some more photos: and a drawing with the top view on the deck and a sideview of the hull with the "Schnelltauchback": Would be great if this feature could be modded into the hull of a IX C! Perhaps somebody can do it? Cheers, Kurfürst __________________

02-10-09, 09:57 AM	#2
UberTorpedo Planesman Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern California Posts: 194 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	kurfürst Where did you get that blueprint diagram ? Most excellent! cheers __________________ Download Link for Mods and Other Goodies...

02-10-09, 10:34 AM	#3
kurfürst Chief Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Guetersloh, Germany Posts: 310 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 0	Danke, UberTorpedo! It´s taken from the book "Vom Original zum Modell: U-Boottyp IX" (From the original to the model: U-boattype IX). Highly reccomendable book with lots of drawings and photos! Cheers, Kurfürst __________________

02-10-09, 01:26 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,380 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Some cracking photos guys __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-10-09, 05:45 PM	#6
Murr44 Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 913 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	U-190, an IXC/40, had this modification done at the Deschimag yard at Bremen sometime between October 1944 and January 1945. Source: Another Place, Another Time: A U-boat Officer's Wartime Album Werner Hirschmann with Donald E. Graves Robin Brass Studio/Chatham Publishing 2004 pg. 217 There are several photos in this book showing the modification to good effect. This is a really worthwhile title. Lots of previously unreleased photos and an appendix entitled "The Type IXC/40 U-boats: U-190 and U-889: A Pictorial Tour". Everything that you ever wanted to know (and then some) about this type. Last edited by Murr44; 02-10-09 at 05:58 PM.

02-10-09, 12:10 PM	#4
Freiwillige The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Phx. Az Posts: 1,458 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Thank you both Uber torpedo and Kurfurst. I really enjoy learning such things. It was not untill I got said book that I learned of the type I Unterseeboot exsistance. Kurfurst from IL2? If so good to see you here too.

02-10-09, 08:05 PM	#7
UberTorpedo Planesman Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern California Posts: 194 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	Maybe someone that has one of the above mentioned books could answer this question for me... I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the Allies didn't know that this U-boat variation even existed until the first sub surfaced and surrendered at the end of WWII? __________________ Download Link for Mods and Other Goodies...

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