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Re: Divers find sunken German U-boat off Massachusetts coast
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2012, 01:41:14 PM »
  What's the difference between Grave Robbing and Archeology?  :headscratch:
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Re: Divers find sunken German U-boat off Massachusetts coast
« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2012, 01:54:00 PM »
It's not a unique boat so there isn't really a good reason to disturb a war grave for it. U-505, another Type IX, is fully restored and on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. U-534 was salvaged in 1993 and is on display in Birkenhead, UK.


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I have seen that Sub in Birkenhead, its massive :) I might nip up and take some photos :)
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Re: Divers find sunken German U-boat off Massachusetts coast
« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2012, 01:55:06 PM »
Reading Robin Hood are we?

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Re: Divers find sunken German U-boat off Massachusetts coast
« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2012, 01:55:35 PM »
If it's in Liverpool I bet it's up on bricks by now.

I might go down with a angle grinder later :rofl

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Re: Divers find sunken German U-boat off Massachusetts coast
« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2012, 01:57:27 PM »
  What's the difference between Grave Robbing and Archeology?  :headscratch:

The same as the difference between mutilating a dead body and carrying out an autopsy. One is done to seek answers, and the other, out of personal desire.

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Re: Divers find sunken German U-boat off Massachusetts coast
« Reply #20 on: July 30, 2012, 02:26:59 PM »
It's not a unique boat so there isn't really a good reason to disturb a war grave for it. U-505, another Type IX, is fully restored and on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. U-534 was salvaged in 1993 and is on display in Birkenhead, UK.


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This reminded me of U-537 and the Waffle-26 that wasn't discovered until the 1980s in Canada.  And for that reason, if they do confirm it is a Uboat, they should try to gather some information from it if any is still possible - not to disturb it as a monument, but to maybe discover unknown information, landing sites and other possible cases of yet-to-be-discovered clandestine automated monitoring sites/equipment that this ship and its crew left behind.

Here's a good brief article on the WFL-26 and U-537.  http://uboat.net/ops/weather_stations.htm

Here's some good pictures, wish I had the time to translate and read this site as it looks like a real gem - http://www.nexusboard.net/sitemap/6365/geheimunternehmen-deutscher-u-boote-t297559/

1980 condition pre-restoration


circa '43


Restored and on display at the Canadian War Museum.
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Re: Divers find sunken German U-boat off Massachusetts coast
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Re: Divers find sunken German U-boat off Massachusetts coast
« Reply #22 on: July 30, 2012, 04:36:38 PM »
Babs, info on the sub in your post,
http://www.uboat.net/boats/u537.htm

Patrols, http://www.uboat.net/boats/patrols/u537.html

I got the uboat.net links already, but thanks, the one I wish I could translate before tomorrow is the/this nexus board link:

http://www.nexusboard.net/sitemap/6365/geheimunternehmen-deutscher-u-boote-t297559/
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