Missing sub rumored to have brought Nazis to South America discovered

nypost.com ^ | April 18, 2018 | 1:08pm | By Jon Lockett, The Sun

[WayneS]

I don’t think so.

The wreck was found only about 9 NM from the location where it had been bombed by a British B-24. The crew was pretty sure they had sunk it, but the wreckage was never found - until now.

I suppose it is possible that it escaped the bombing, completed a run to S.A. and then on its return trip sank at essentially the same coordinates where it had originally been attacked - but I consider that highly unlikely.

It looks like “The Boys from Brazil” was fiction after all...

[rlmorel]

That was a good book.

[Enchante]

Whoops! So I guess it didn’t take Nazi leaders and vast hidden wealth to South America after all. Too bad, it was a good story....

[mason-dixon]

I saw the evidence of the U-boat attack on fuel barges... In the 1960’s on the south New Jersey Shore — just south of Atlantic City. The sand had these stripes of black and mom had us check our feet for “tar balls” before going into the house. This was from a sinking of a fuel barge off of Sea Isle City, NJ

some clippings
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/cape_may/how-a-german-submarine-attack-forever-changed-cape-may/article_10872806-2fb2-5907-abee-c07880ac94dd.html
http://whitedeercafe.blogspot.com/2011/12/rudolph-rudy-plappert-nazi-submariner.html

[dfwgator]

They wound up in Minehead, Somerset....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlmGknvr_Pg

[Enchante]

Even given the lack of US preparations, we lost a lot of ships and tankers unnecessarily in the first months of the war. US leaders refused to take basic precautions....

[Red Badger]

Now they will want to raise this sub....................

[Red Badger]

Scans of the seabed reveal the U-boat now lies in 403 feet of water, making it very difficult to access.

Not impossible..................

[Red Badger]

Looks deliberate................

[raybbr]

Bfl

[pierrem15]

Only 122 meters down.

Max safe depth was 225 meters, crush depth 340.

Sounds like a full speed dive with bowplanes jammed.

Could have just gotten stuck in the mud: crew may have survived for 68 hours before oxygen ran out, maybe longer.

[Red Badger]

Dived and didn’t know the depth?...................

[bitt]

p

[PLMerite]

My father was in Florida at the time and he said they would go to the beach and watch the fires from the torpedoed tankers.

[Mariner]

It was a sophisticated submarine and the model upon which all modern DE boats are based.

The design was copied by all modern navies in the 40’s and 50’s.

[wally_bert]

Lousy way to go.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Southern railway and other roads had oil drag trains running up and down the coast for that very reason.Few picture exist because of wartime regulations photographing trains.The one I have seen was impressive with a string of 8000 gallon tank cars as far as you could see.

[TXnMA]

"I would be interested in hearing why you think Horace L. Hunley might be responsible for it's sinking."

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The second Hunley sinking killed HLH. He was at the (forward station) controls and forgot to close the forward ballast tank fill valve. He dove the Hunley under a Confederate warship in Charleston harbor -- to practice towing a (dummy) floating contact torpedo into it.

The bow-heavy Hunley "nosedived" into the harbor bottom and stuck there. (Hence the similarity to the thread image...) All aboard died -- including HLH.

The famous (and accurate) Chapman painting of the Hunley on the dock

was made during refitting after the Hunley was raised the second time -- following HLH's fiasco.

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The third sinking followed the successful attack on the Housatonic. The dead & buried HLH played no role in that one.

For info on the first two sinkings, see https://www.hunley.org/the-hunleys-sinkings/...

[Bulwyf]

The jokes write themselves lol.

I’m so sorry, it’s what infanteers do, we make fun of the navy.

[pierrem15]

Probably. Not sure they had accurate depth charts at that time for subs.

403 feet down is not far to go. If they were at top surface speed and did a crash dive and either had the planes jammed by a depth charge or took water in at the bow, they'd almost certainly plant themselves as they appear to have done.