Uboat Expeditions

IrishUboot · 08-14-06, 08:25 PM

Just checked the map on there. Seems they are. Right off the coast where I do my fishing. I remember hearing something about this dive at the time.

Spaxspore · 08-14-06, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by IrishUboot

Just checked the map on there. Seems they are. Right off the coast where I do my fishing. I remember hearing something about this dive at the time.

Wow Small world...

08-15-06, 05:29 PM

Consolidated Aircraft and its subsidiaries built 18,000 B-24s from 1941 to 1945. Today there are three flying in the whole world. Surplus metal means more to the military than saving anything for posterity.

U-snafu · 08-15-06, 06:42 PM

"Surplus metal means more to the military than saving anything for posterity."

Sailor Steve,
I remember reading somewhere about "ghost fleets" that the navy has preserved (tied together floating around somewhere) that can be refitted and recommisioned if needed. (modern ships probably). being a navy man have you ever heard of ghost fleets of WWII era still existing such as the aircraft boneyards that are in the nevada (i think) desserts?

08-16-06, 07:38 PM

The Mothball Fleet in San Francisco was used in the second 'Dirty Harry' film, Magnum Force. I know that a lot of ships were kept ready to be refitted if the need arose. I don't know about now, though, but I'm sure someone does.

I'm willing to bet the aircraft in the 'boneyards' are not at all airworthy.

08-14-06, 08:25 PM	#1
IrishUboot Sparky Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Malin Head, Eire/Ireland Posts: 156 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Just checked the map on there. Seems they are. Right off the coast where I do my fishing. I remember hearing something about this dive at the time. __________________ "A braver man than Arthur Griffith, I never met" - Frederick Edwin Smith, The First Earl of Birkenhead, British negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921. Last edited by IrishUboot; 08-14-06 at 08:27 PM.

08-15-06, 06:42 PM	#4
U-snafu XO Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: North Carolina Posts: 405 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	"Surplus metal means more to the military than saving anything for posterity." Sailor Steve, I remember reading somewhere about "ghost fleets" that the navy has preserved (tied together floating around somewhere) that can be refitted and recommisioned if needed. (modern ships probably). being a navy man have you ever heard of ghost fleets of WWII era still existing such as the aircraft boneyards that are in the nevada (i think) desserts? __________________ .."Some men are born mediocre, some men acheive mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them"...

08-15-06, 05:29 PM	#3
Sailor Steve Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Consolidated Aircraft and its subsidiaries built 18,000 B-24s from 1941 to 1945. Today there are three flying in the whole world. Surplus metal means more to the military than saving anything for posterity.

08-16-06, 07:38 PM	#5
Sailor Steve Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	The Mothball Fleet in San Francisco was used in the second 'Dirty Harry' film, Magnum Force. I know that a lot of ships were kept ready to be refitted if the need arose. I don't know about now, though, but I'm sure someone does. I'm willing to bet the aircraft in the 'boneyards' are not at all airworthy.