Favorite submarine

[Zilch]

Originally Posted by Kapitan Soniboy

The submarine left for Japan in late 1945. It had blueprints of late nazi weapons like the Me262 and the V2 rocket. It also had several containers of floating mercury. Just outside Bergen at a place called Fedje the U-boat was sunk by a British submarine. Today it rests below the surface at a depth of 250 meters. The inhabitants of Fedje want the submarine raised because the floating mercury is leaking from the wreck.

They plan to raise the sub next year and I'm really looking forward to post some pictures here on this forum. That's about all I know.

And by the way, the submarine is the only one in WWII to be sunk by another submarine while both were underwater. The British really had one lucky shot

Oh, THAT Type IX! I remember reading about it elsewhere in the forum. Be sure to take as many pics as you can for those of us who can't be there in person.

Raising the boat, on it's own, is something of a historical event. It'll be cool for you to be there when it happens. Are they planning on making it a museum or anything once it's raised?

[Kapitan Soniboy]

Originally Posted by Zilch

Are they planning on making it a museum or anything once it's raised?

The ship is blasted in half but I think they will put things like the periscope and the conning tower at a museum in Bergen

Look at this picture
http://www.nmf.no/images/u864_kystverket_620b.JPG

And here is a sonar image of the wreck
http://www.johnelkington.com/weblog/U864.jpg

[Zilch]

Originally Posted by Kapitan Soniboy

The ship is blasted in half but I think they will put things like the periscope and the conning tower at a museum in Bergen

Look at this picture
http://www.nmf.no/images/u864_kystverket_620b.JPG

And here is a sonar image of the wreck
http://www.johnelkington.com/weblog/U864.jpg

Cool!

[kz26]

Originally Posted by Zilch

Cool!

17 tons of mercury in the middle? Yikes...