swim around u boat?

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Originally Posted by RICH12ACE

hi did u boat crews ever swim around and under the u boat when off duty???:hmm: :hmm: [no jokes please ]

Like most navies, both civil and military, the Germans had initiation ceremonies when crossing the equator. Photos do exist of such ceremonies. Indeed, one that I am looking at now shows men on the quarterdeck performing such an initiation ceremony whilst a number of guys are jumping off the side and swimming beside the boat.

Perhaps slightly OT, but this is touched on in Leadership Lecture by Kapitän zur See Wolfgang Lüth

This is actually a good read as it gives a glimpse of day-to-day life onboard a U-boat; some may find, for example, the gramophone records typically carried onboard Luth's U-boats interesting and surprising.