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Might you see this?
A "U-boot Museum" flying the Union Jack?
I expect that someone will know...if not I'll update the thread with some information in the next couple of days.
Concarneau? (Guess).
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Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
Could be HMS Otus at Sassnitz
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Credit to my mate Terry
Last edited by Mr Curta; 19th September 2018 at 16:30.
Not in Laboe, Kiel. (Pronounced as if it's Danish: 'Labø').
There's complete German WWII U-boot on shore as a museum.
(The 1972 Olympic Centre is just across the water, on the shore where the high-rise buildings are located).
Kiel is not worth a visit. However, the surrounding area and villages like Laboe, Schilksee and Strande are worth checking out.
Laboe houses two Marine Monuments as well: the Marine Denkmal and the U-boot Denkmal, especially for the German U-boot casualties from WWI and WWII
There used to be one in Folkestone 20 years ago.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Otus_(S18)
HMS Otus was a Royal Navy Oberon-class submarine launched in 1962. She was decommissioned in the early 1990s and is now a naval museum in Germany.
That didn't take long. I came across Otus from this article: The Portsmouth submarine that refused to die...and I think I remember seeing her as in the first photograph.
Then I found the museum's website: HMS Otus.
I am pleased to see that at least one O-boat was rescued from the scrapyard:
Last edited by PickleB; 19th September 2018 at 20:19. Reason: edit 'here' to 'her'
The scrapyard was Pounds at Portsmouth and there is a facebook page with more photos, some of which are submarines...link.
Harry pounds was an institution for many years, I bought quite a few rigid raiders from him and was going to buy the last two landing craft he had but they were vandalised so badly they were not viable. He has gone now due to land sell off /house builds.Originally Posted by PickleB
mike
We’ve got U-534 here on the Wirral, albeit in pieces to make access the museum easier.
Last edited by benny.c; 19th September 2018 at 20:40.
In a previous career as a noise ranging trials officer, I worked on all 13 O boats, plus two P boats (Sealion and Walrus iirc).
For a new challenge, who can name all 13 without resorting to the internet or a 1980's copy of Jane's Fighting Ships or whatever it was called?
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I doubt that I could get to five. It was only yesterday that I learnt from the internet that there were more in the Australian Navy.
The submarine museum at Gosport (part of the Portsmouth Historic Naval Base museum) is quite good. You can go inside HMS Alliance (a predecessor to the O class) . If you buy a ticket to the HNB you can go as many times as you like in a year.
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