Simviation Forum - Carnage inside unterseeboote!!

Reply #15 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 7:08am

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But the commander? I thought he bit the dust?

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Reply #16 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 8:00am

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The commander bit the dust. But not in his boat.

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Reply #17 - Aug 2^nd, 2005 at 2:39am

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I think it's fatal to the crew, not the submarine.

Eeks, what's the status of the submarine when its sweaty crew has expired!?! Cry

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The commander bit the dust. But not in his boat.

And if he had been in his boat, wouldn't he have more like bit the 'mud'? Wink

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Reply #18 - Aug 2^nd, 2005 at 3:16am

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Eeks, what's the status of the submarine when its sweaty crew has expired!?! Cry

The submarine can be salvaged & recommissioned. Read the story of HMS Thetis/Thunderbolt. http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/britsubthetis.html

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Reply #19 - Aug 2^nd, 2005 at 5:07am

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Thanks for that link Doug, I lost a Great Uncle in HM Submarine Thunderbolt. My Great Aunt Elizabeth never re-married. She lived with her spinster sister until she died in 1984 with his picture on her mantle piece for all those years. He was a handsome young Petty Officer and for the two years that they were married apparently very happy, I had his medals until they were stolen a few months ago.

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Reply #20 - Aug 2^nd, 2005 at 9:00am

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The submarine can be salvaged & recommissioned. Read the story of HMS Thetis/Thunderbolt. http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/britsubthetis.html

Packing one hundred people into a sub for celebrations is the most stupid thing to do. Roll Eyes

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Reply #21 - Aug 3^rd, 2005 at 5:07am

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The submarine can be salvaged & recommissioned. Read the story of HMS Thetis/Thunderbolt.

Outdoor pool and all, the Brits seem to sponser horribly rough Going Away parties.
I haven't perused all but I thought we were referenced to deeper water WW2 scenarios. Wartime recoveries were difficult when not in your own harbors* (and not always so easy within).
*harbours, Brit Roll Eyes

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Sorry to bring up "Castles of Steel" but there is a passage where a British destroyer drops depth charges on a U-boat. The boat is damaged, can barely move, scraping along the bottom. Silence. Then a sharp sound is heard over the echo locators in the RN destroyer - as that made by a pistol shot. Then another, and another ... .finally, after 28 , complete silence.
To this day, I think that anyone who serves in submarines has ... "enlarged gonads".

When they succumb to your scenario, all of their parts become quite diminished Lips Sealed

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Reply #22 - Aug 3^rd, 2005 at 8:43am

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Quite interesting that there was only one pistol aboard german subs - locked away in the commander's cabin.

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Reply #23 - Aug 4^th, 2005 at 4:50am

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Quite interesting that there was only one pistol aboard german subs - locked away in the commander's cabin.

So was it mass suicide or the commander defending himself from a crew blaming him for their demise ???

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Reply #24 - Aug 4^th, 2005 at 7:01am

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So was it mass suicide or the commander defending himself from a crew blaming him for their demise ???

Mass suicide. The last thing to happen on an U-Boat was an uprise against the commander.

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Reply #25 - Aug 4^th, 2005 at 8:26am

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The last thing to happen on an U-Boat was an uprise against the commander.

That's a very broad statement. I'm sure some commanders were better than others even in the Kriegsmarine. Remember what happened to Johann in Das Boot. Some of the most dramatic & tense scenes I've ever seen on TV. I'm sure that was based on fact. Nobody will ever know the full story or exactly what happens under these extreme circumstances & there's nobody left to tell the tale.

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Reply #26 - Aug 4^th, 2005 at 4:56pm

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Johan? The guy with the bible?

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Reply #27 - Aug 4^th, 2005 at 5:23pm

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Johan? The guy with the bible?

Maybe I got the name wrong. The guy in the engine room that went berserk.

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Reply #28 - Aug 4^th, 2005 at 5:38pm

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Maybe I got the name wrong. The guy in the engine room that went berserk.

And got punched?

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Reply #29 - Aug 4^th, 2005 at 5:41pm

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I don't remember now. It's been a long time since I last watched Das Boot, too long. He was one of the old hands & lost it. The Captain threatened to shoot him & he meant it.

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