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U-511 (Type IXC)

Reception in honor of the sailors of U-511 in Penang

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/239...onneurdesm.jpg

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5928/u511.jpg
Penang 1943
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7...penang1943.jpg http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/6369/u511emblme1.jpg http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8743/u511emblme2.jpg
Sold to Japan at Kure, Japan on 16 Sept, 1943 and became the Japanese submarine RO 500. Surrendered at Maizuru in August 1945.

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Originally Posted by U796 (Post 1073965)

U-31 (Type VIIA)
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/639...lorientmon.jpg

I may be wrong, but isn't that a Type II submarine, not the type VIIA that U-31 was? I only count 3 bow tubes.
Compare with the Type II submarine Vesikko:
http://www.vesikko.fi/data/kuvat/big/vesikko_bow_03.jpg

The Bundesarchiv might have labeled it wrong?
Anyway, THANKS FOR SHARING all these images U796!:rock:

OK
Thanks
Bundesarchiv said : "Frankreich, Lorient.- U-Boot U 31 auf Slipp"

I agree with you, this is not a type VIIA
Can you identified this U-Boat Type II ?

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U-518 (Type IXC)
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/787...unsunderla.jpg http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/5108/u518.gif
At 12.35 hours on June 27 1943, the outbound boat was strafed and attacked with four depth charges by the British Sunderland aircraft
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/456/u5182.gif

U-523 (Type IXC)
http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/3384/u523.png

U-524 (Type IXC)
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/464...ars1943par.jpg
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/58/u5...appedhuile.jpg
Sunk 22 March, 1943 south of Madeira, Portugal, in position 30.15N, 18.13W, by depth charges from a US Liberator aircraft
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3103/u524emblme.jpg

:yeah:Thanks for sharing your collection of U-Boats
there are great:salute:

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U-527 (Type IXC-40)
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/788...3juillet19.jpg

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/124...eexplosive.jpg http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4584/u527emblme.jpg
Sunk 23 July, 1943 in the mid-Atlantic south of the Azores during support of U-648, in position 35.25N, 27.56W, by depth charges from Avenger aircraft (VC-9) of the US escort carrier USS Bogue. 40 dead and 13 survivors.
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7771/u527lafin.jpg

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U-528 (Type IXC-40)
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/9124/u528.jpg http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5333/528o.jpg
Sunk 11 May, 1943 in the North Atlantic south-west of Ireland, in position 46.55N, 14.44W, by depth charges from a British Handley Page Halifax aircraft (Sqdn. 58/D) and by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Fleetwood. 11 dead and 45 survivors.

U-530 (Type IXC-40)
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9...rdesmarins.jpg
Surrendered in the Mar del Plata, Argentina on 10 July, 1945.
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4...uxautorits.jpg

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3444/...meciblele2.jpg
Scuttled during tests on 28 Nov, 1947 north-east of Cape Cod, by a torpedo.

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U-532 (Type IXC-40)
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/387...wenmai1945.jpg
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7...arrowmai19.jpg http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/3651/u532emblme.jpg
Surrendered at Liverpool on 10 May, 1945. Transferred to Loch Ryan for Operation Deadlight.
U-534 (Type IXC-40)
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4401/u5341944.jpg http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1441/534u.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/410...dunliberat.jpg
Sunk 5 May, 1945 in the Kattegat north-west of Helsingör, in position 56.39N, 11.48E, by 10 depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft (Sqdn. 86/G). 3 dead and 49 survivors.
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/605/u534surleau.jpg http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/752...aujourdhui.jpg
The U-534 was raised in the Kattegat, out of Denmark, in 1993 and almost ended up in a scrap yard before being taken over by the Warship Preservation Trust.

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Originally Posted by U796 (Post 1081852)

OK
Thanks
Bundesarchiv said : "Frankreich, Lorient.- U-Boot U 31 auf Slipp"

I agree with you, this is not a type VIIA
Can you identified this U-Boat Type II ?

Hi!

Several Type II U-boats visited Lorient in the late summer and fall of 1940, according to the individual patrol records at uboat.net.

Type IIC: U-56, U-57, U-58, U-59, U-60, and U-61

Type IID: U-137, U-138

I cannot really tell from the photo which of these it might have been.

Pablo

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U-535 (Type IXC-40)
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/366...oulle5juil.jpg http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6349/535.jpg
Sunk 5 July, 1943 in position 43.38N, 09.13W, by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft (Sqdn. 53/G). 55 dead (all hands lost).

U-537 (Type IXC-40)
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1675/...urlepontav.jpg http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6514/u537emblme.jpg
Sunk 9 Nov, 1944 in the Java Sea east of Surabaya, in position 07.13S, 115.17E, by torpedoes from the US submarine USS Flounder. 58 dead (all hands lost).

U-540 (Type IXC-40)
http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/4080/...e17oct1943.jpg
Sunk 17 Oct, 1943 east of Cape Farewell, Greenland, in position 58.38N, 31.56W, by depth charges from 2 British Liberator aircraft (Sqdn. 59/D & 120/H). 55 dead (all hands lost).

U-541 (Type IXC-40)
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5273/...uxanglaisl.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9881/u541emblme.jpg
Surrendered at Gibraltar on 14 May, 1945. Transferred to Lisahally for Operation Deadlight.

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U-544 (Type IXC-40)
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/765...otoavantsa.png http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1935/544h.jpg

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/427...anvier1944.jpg
Sunk 16 Jan, 1944 in the North Atlantic north-west of the Azores, in position 40.30N, 37.20W, by depth charges and rockets from Avenger aircraft (VC-13) of the US escort carrier USS Guadalcanal. 57 dead (all hands lost).
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/883...tsetnapped.jpg

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Originally Posted by Pablo (Post 1082554)

After looking at the pictures, it can not have been U-56, U-57, U-58, since they did not have the wire cutters.

It could have been U-59, U-61, since the wire cutters can clearly be seen in their pictures.

U-60, U-137 or U-138 I can't tell, since the bow of the U-boat is not visible in the pictures.

-SBJ

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U-550 (Type IXC-40)
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/208...navireaufo.jpg http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/5301/u550emblme.jpg

The tanker Pan Pennsylvania on fire, his only victory before being destroyed itself

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/209...bandonnele.jpg
Sunk 16 April, 1944 in the North Atlantic in position 40.09N, 69.44W, by depth charges and gunfire from the US destroyer escorts USS Gandy, USS Joyce and USS Peterson. 44 dead and 12 survivors.
http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/296...elussjoyce.jpg
USS Joyce

This would suggest it is a Type IID:

http://uboat.net/types/illustrations/iid_2d.gif

See that it has wirecutters not only above the water line, but also under, at the torpedo tubes?
The boat in the picture also has that, but the Type IIC didn't, according to Uboat.net:

http://uboat.net/types/illustrations/iic_2d.gif

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U-551 (Type VIIC)
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/2070/u551ensurface.jpg http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8757/u551emblme.jpg
Sunk 23 March, 1941 in the North Atlantic south-east of Iceland, in position 62.37N, 16.47W, by depth charges from the British ASW trawler HMS Visenda. 45 dead (all hands lost).

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Originally Posted by Sir Big Jugs (Post 1082592)

This would suggest it is a Type IID:

See that it has wirecutters not only above the water line, but also under, at the torpedo tubes?
The boat in the picture also has that, but the Type IIC didn't, according to Uboat.net:

I agree with you.
I think it's U-138 (Type IID)
U-Boat.net said :
26 Sep, 1940
A few hours before reaching her base at Lorient, U-138 encountered the British submarine HMS Tribune which fired four torpedoes towards the German sub. None hit the U-boat, which escaped and reached its base.
:salute:

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