Post your U-Boat photos

[Van]

Neat, tlhanks for the links....

[Todd Gylsen]

Great pics guys! Thanks for sharing and keeping this thread going strong.

[nicoo]

U-A (type Batiray) was being built for the Turkish navy when the war broke out. She was taken over by the Kriegsmarine, at first she was known as "Optimist" but then was given the designation U-A.
She took part in the invasion of Norway. U-A carried out 8 patrols to the northern, central and southern atlantic. Sunk 7 ships for a total of 40.706 GRT and damaged another ship. One of the interesting things is that she was part of the rescue operation carried out in south atlantic to rescue the crew from Atlantis and Python.
In 1942 she was removed from combat duty and was destined to train new crews.
She was scuttled in Kiel on the 3rd of May 1945

[nicoo]

Here is a picture of U-A entering Lorient 1940. (from my personal collection)

[Jan7]

Dear Nicoo:

Seems that the canyon of the tower are removed.....and rebuilt the upper section.

Welcome at the WAF !





Jan.

[nicoo]

indeed the cannon seems to have been removed. maybe it caused too much drag or was removed to speed up the diving time. another thing I can think of is that it was a poor firing platform. But those are only hipothesis.
the only modification I can see to the conning tower is a wave deflector on the forward part.
nice to see you here too!

[Petrus]

U-806

Atlantic!

[Todd Gylsen]

Returning from patrol with several victory pennants.

[hornetsfan]

U-boat photos

My main photo collecting interest is U-boats and crew ..I'm prepared to upload some of my original U-boat photos , it would be great to see some of yours .

[hornetsfan]

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[hornetsfan]

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[desiro]

Nice pictures,do you know which boat it is?

[hornetsfan]

Hello Desiro ..I have a fair number of original photos of this u-boat ..I bought them from a trusted / well known US dealer ...have them down as U-142 ...but just looked them up on uboat.net and it suggests U-145 ...can anyone please help with this apparent discrepancy .
many thanks
jim

[DaveNZ]

I dont have anything to contribute to this thread as photos are not my thing...but i would love to see some more U boat photos.

Especially anything taken up in the arctic

thanks

dave

[hornetsfan]

u142 d.jpg The same u-boat as previous 2 photos ..the sea sure looks cold ...I have this photo blown up large and framed on my office wall ..fantastic clarity, high quality . ( offered on cd with many others as a 1200dpi scan )
jim