Amazing picture !!!

[SilverGhost]

It is a Type VIIC/41...note the mine deployment tubes (yes, Letum, they are mines) and schnorkel. Deck guns were mostly history by early '42 and most commanders opted them off the boats in favor of better AA guns. With the advent of the Type VIID (and all subsequent models)...deck guns weren't even installed.

[Jmack]

no they are not mines SilverGhost ... they are watertight containers for liferafts

[AVGWarhawk]

I think they launch ICBM!

[Martin1813]

montage ?
Colors of the sea and of the boat mix so well...


Difficult to say but I think the waves' shadows may indicate that the light comes from ahead, on the left, while the radar's shadow shows it comes from behind...

I know I can be absoloutly wrong, but forgive me, I'm a color vision deficient


But what is tis huge hole (looks like a hole...) just down the coning tower ?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Martin1813

montage ?
Colors of the sea and of the boat mix so well...


Difficult to say but I think the waves' shadows may indicate that the light comes from ahead, on the left, while the radar's shadow shows it comes from behind...

I know I can be absoloutly wrong, but forgive me, I'm a color vision deficient


But what is tis huge hole (looks like a hole...) just down the coning tower ?

The hole looks like a torpedo loading ramp to me.

[rasmus1896]

i have a question about uboats launcing mines:
did uboats launc mines when they were moving (forward)?

if they did they would sink themselves by launcing a mine from a bow tube wouldnt they?

[Letum]

Originally Posted by SilverGhost

(yes, Letum, they are mines)

No, SilverGhost, they are not mines.
Only 3 types of mines where used by u-boats and all of them where deployed via the torpedo hatches apart from the Type XB minelaying boats wich have 30 mine shafts, but these look very, very diffrent to the hatches in the picture.

*edit* You can clearly see mine hatches either side of the conning tower on this XB boat. There are none on the foward deck (not shown in pic)

Originally Posted by rasmus1896

i have a question about u boats launching mines:
did u boats launch mines when they were moving (forward , backward)?

if they did they would sink themselves by launching a mine from a bow tube wouldn't they?

The Mines almost allways set off on a magnetic trigger. there was a time delay of at least a day on the mines so the u-boat could easily lay more mines and escape. Mines where deployed usually from the bow tubes in order to keep the stern tube free as a defensive weapon against destroyers (however it wasn't very useful for this in actual combat!). I would guess you would put your u-boat in reverse to avoid banging into the mines you lay, however this would not make them explode, it might mess up the depth keeping.

[edjcox]

Here ist a typical U Boat Minen armament

Thirty mine shafts, free flooding type. Six in keel line through the bow compartment, 3 mines per shaft; 12 through starboard tanks, outboard of pressure hull, 2 mines per shaft; 12 through port tanks, outboard of pressure hull, 2 mines per shaft



http://www.uboataces.com/weapon-mines.shtml


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