"Ok, Who's the U-Boat Commander?"
"Ok, Who's the U-Boat Commander?"
How deep can the river be at that point? Not very, I’d think. Barely enough to conceal a submerged sub. Probably barely enough to float a sub running on the surface.
I wonder if there were any POW camps in the immediate area housing German POW’s? The article also makes mention of the separate discovery of a battery powered weather monitor apparently left by a U-boat on Canadian soil. Could this U-boat have been “making a delivery?”
Reminds of a Canadian movie during the war (don’t recall name). The story is of a U-boat landing in Hudson Bay and how the crew is chased across Canada, ending up near Calgary. Banff was also in there I think.
Truth stranger than fiction.
I like the irony that the German U-boat foundered in the CHURCHILL River.
Chock full of the only “good” socialists that can conceivably exist.
The Germans kept very detailed records.This should be a”piece of cake”?
Sounds like the opening of a Clive Cussler novel.
Interesting and VERY STRANGE for a location. The Churchill River (formerly the Hamilton River) is on the mainland portion of Newfoundland (mouth abt. 54N 57W) and empties into the Labrador Sea which is the arm of the Atlantic between Canada and Greenland.
The article mentions 2 potential reasons for an U-Boat to be up there during WW2. The first is the past and current presence of Goose Bay air base which was used by Allied Air Forces in WW2. The other possibility was to operate a weather station for German naval operations in the North Atlantic. The shipping lanes that the U-Boats hunted were far to the southeast and the water temps would have been quite chilly in the best of conditions during deep summer (the season of tough sledding).
Maybe a Clive Cussler-type novel in the making.
It hasn’t been found. Misleading headline. A couple years ago someone saw some sonar images that made him think it could be a submarine. Now, some scientists are going to do another search to see what they can discover. So, no, it hasn’t been “found”.
They just wanted some maple syrup and back bacon.
Assuming the story is true and the crew scuttled their boat, what happened to them? How do Germans who likely don’t even speak english blend in and avoid capture? You would think someone from the crew would have said or written something over the years.
The poor dog. I’ve heard that labs will eat anything, but a submarine?
Thirty meters is waaaaay small for a Uboat. Even a Type IIA coastal Uboat was over 40 meters. The standard boat, Type VIIC, was 67 meters.
http://www.uboat.net/types/iia.htm
http://www.uboat.net/types/viic.htm
So, either they are seeing only part of the Uboat, or it was a midget. The biggest of the German midgets, the Seehund, was only 17 meters, though. So it is still a mystery.
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> If the mystery find is proven to be a submarine wreck, the
> German government does not favour bringing it to the
> surface.
> “That would be against our tradition and our naval
> customs,” Juergens said. “You know, zombies and scheisse.”
