Myth or reality Kiel Canal??

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by f16falcon

WOW! Awesome pics, truly amazing! Yes im using GWX but wasnt before. Thanks guys thats fab. Just hope theres no mines..heheh! What was the depth of the canal?

Dont worry, there´s no mines... atleast I havent hit any! :rotfl:

Cant remember the depth, but I wouldnt advice you to crash dive there.

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Dont worry, there´s no mines... atleast I havent hit any! :rotfl:

Cant remember the depth, but I wouldnt advice you to crash dive there.

lock sill depth:
in Brunsbüttel NN-10,20 m
in Kiel-Holtenau NN- 9,80 m
mitred lock gates:2 ebb tide and 2 flood tide doors per chamber
filling: through 2 side channels each with 12 branch channels
lock transit time: 30 minutes

new locks
usable length:310 m
usable width:42 m
depth:NN-14,00 m
lift gates:each chamber 3 gatesthe middle lock gate - which is also the reserve gate - makes it possible to transit the lock more quickly in a shortened chamber
filling:in Brunsbüttel by revolving lock gatesin Holtenau through 2 side channels each with 29 branch channels
lock transit time: 45 minutes



Its was widen after first build to allow deadnoughts to use it
Those figures are current ones

[Brag]

the GWX team did a great job in making it a sight seeing experience (at least part of the way --hehe)

[Torplexed]

The nicest thing about the GWX canal is there are no annoying locks you have sit in while they pump your water up to...or down to the next level. Too bad there isn't a 3-D souvenir shop selling baubles on the shore. "I navigated the Kiel Canal and all I got was this lousy tee shirt."

[xlbob]

I didn't know about this Kiel canal until I restarted my career to wilhelmshaven. In fact the reason I restarted my career was because it took a really loooong time to sail from the base in Kiel to the North sea, espescially in a type IIA boat.

It wasn't until my 2d partol (in second career) that I found out about the Kiel canal. I accidentally clicked on the "Kiel canal" navigation mode and afterward searched the map and realized that there's a shortcut from Kiel to North sea.

[Mush Martin]

Maybe that will be my next mod put a Brit. Mine laying sub into the game
with a mission to mine the approaches.

Nice!

NNNnnnnYes I like it.............I Like it its good.

MM

[BladeHeart]

I started my current patrol from Kiel by utilising the canal.

From the patrol point of view, given how inhospitable the North Sea is for a U-boat, and travelling through the English Channel is definately unhealthy, I wonder how much fuel is to be gained by using the canal. Once exiting the canal I then had to travel across the North Sea to sail around the Orkneys, etc?

[Iron Budokan]

Super pics!

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by BladeHeart

I started my current patrol from Kiel by utilising the canal.

From the patrol point of view, given how inhospitable the North Sea is for a U-boat, and travelling through the English Channel is definately unhealthy, I wonder how much fuel is to be gained by using the canal. Once exiting the canal I then had to travel across the North Sea to sail around the Orkneys, etc?

It shortens the trip when you are assigned patrol grids east of the UK in the AN sector with a type II.
If on a VII and have to go to the Atlantic over the north, as I always go along the norwegian coast to avoid shallow waters near UK, it doesn't shorten much compared to the whole trip.