U-864 is finally being raised!

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Originally Posted by SteamWake

What in the hell do you need 67 tons of mecury for munitions?

Thats a hella lot of tilt switches or was it used for other things?

It has many uses:

• Fuses
• Rocket fuel production
• An old fashioned way of enriching uranium
• Auto-pilot and rocket systems
• Old fashioned electrics. Especially arc valves for power plants
• Optics, especially naval.
• Batteries
• It is expensive

The Germans also shipped radioactive materials mixed in mercury, but it is not clear why.
U-859's mercury only contains trace radioactive materials as a by product of it's
method of extraction tho.