U-boats in the Kiel Canal

Seademon · 09-09-20, 09:45 PM

he "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal", as it was officially named until 1948, has a length of 98,637 km and a depth of 11 m.

As far as I know U-boats didn't use the canal very often, for they had their training centers in the Baltic and went to operation by way of Kattegatt, Skagerrak and Norway. Of course every sub built in Hamburg, Bremen etc. had to travel through the canal to reach the Baltic.
Source:- https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=134294

Aktungbby · 09-09-20, 10:13 PM

^ That was then; this is now! U-32 in the Kiel Canal; Still tricky after a century + 20!

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09-09-20, 09:45 PM	#1
Seademon Seaman Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 33 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	some information he "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal", as it was officially named until 1948, has a length of 98,637 km and a depth of 11 m. As far as I know U-boats didn't use the canal very often, for they had their training centers in the Baltic and went to operation by way of Kattegatt, Skagerrak and Norway. Of course every sub built in Hamburg, Bremen etc. had to travel through the canal to reach the Baltic. Source:- https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=134294 __________________ hang tough - Do it Right Seademon "Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead, full speed" RDML Farragut

09-09-20, 10:13 PM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,037 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	^ That was then; this is now! U-32 in the Kiel Canal; Still tricky after a century + 20!http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/2020/03/best-english-narrated-german-212a.html __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!! Last edited by Aktungbby; 09-09-20 at 11:15 PM.