Nazi U-Boat found off coast of Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ, in 1991, USA and Germany had No records

NJ Scuba, various ^ | 07.25.04

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U-505 is a German World War II Type-IXc U-Boat. It's on display in Chicago.

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Length: 251.8 feet (76.76m)

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U534 a type IXC/40 Second World War U-boat is on display with the Warship Preservation Trust's collection in Birkenhead, Merseyside

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Martin Horenburg, the late Funkmeister of the radio room on the U-869

Maybe they had an encounter with the Mothership?

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U-869

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uboat.net - Special Sections - Myth and Stories


http://uboat.net/special/myths/

U-boats loaded with Mercury
The story often surfaces that this or that U-boat had mercury ballast (as much as 200 tons). They upshot would be that using Mercury would enable the engineers to stabilize the boat in an instant.
Mercury is an extremely expensive metal and the cost to ballast one U-boat would be more than to construct 5 new ones. It was thus never used to ballast any U-boat. However, two U-boats did in fact carry Mercury in place of at least part of its ballast, the former was the U-234 that surrendered to the US in May, 1945 with a $5 million worth of Mercury in flasks. The other was the U-859 that had Mercury on board when it was sunk in 1944 near Penang. The metal was for Japan and was salvaged in the sixties, probably 32 tons. U-862 possibly had some Mercury in flasks too.

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Could be, but when you have spent 18 hours diving with 5 dives and you can finally drink beer, you will listen to any story!

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