MSW Crew-mate Jan Klarbæk (Mr.Mox) sends us a companion walk-around feature to his Laboe Naval Memorial feature currently running at MSW, of the U 995, the only surviving Type VII submarine in the world!

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
~Gunny

Thanks for the tour Jan, too bad they had the conning tower blocked off. It would have been nice to have some shots of the decking and sail as well as those 20's and 37 up there. I guess they didn't want to have any touristas taking a header off there.

You can see it here, Jay:
http://www.deutscher-marinebund.de/01_U-Boot_Turm_max.swf

Now, Jan, this is just the kind of teaser that pushes my buttons!
Thank you so much for sharing this Naval Museum with us!
Just the U-995 would justify the trip (for me), but....
Thanks,
Rui

Thanks, actually it was Mark doing all the hard work, pressed for time I just made a CD with the raw pictures and sent it to him to do all the resizeing and setting it up.

Theres a XXI in Bremerhaven .....

OK, Jan, you got my snail addy...

Thanks Rui,

That was a pretty cool 360 degree picture series.

Yes I know!
The main issue in convincing the Mrs is... Germany! The submarine issue is easy (we did tour the Navy Museums in Venice - Italy, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil and USS Pampanito and USS Jeremiah O'Brian in SF, Intrepid Museum (still with the DD USS Edson - a Forrest Sherman Class) NYC - USA with no stress and some admiration on the size of the ships: "So small" or "So big")
It's more a location issue, not the theme

Rui

In 1992 I was in Chicago and went to the Mueseum of Technology where they had a U-boot there you could go into. Is this the same one or is that another one. Also, if you notice, this one lacks the 88mm deck gun. Years ago when serving in Germany in the late 70's I was invited over to a Stammtisch in a Gasthaus where I got to meet 3 surviving U-booters. I felt very priveledged. I also met scads of tankers when we were out on a reforger aroud the same time

Hey Steve

In Chicago it's the U-505, a Typ IX-C and yes it's on my Wish List


Rui

Late VII´s where not outfitted with the deckgun, the opportunities to use it was lost in ´42 ,when the hunters became the hunted ....

Nice photos Jan.
Thanks for taking them.

Thanks very much Jan!

Rui, tell your wife its nice in Denmark, Kiel is only about a hours drive south of the border - just fitting for a oneday excursion from touring Denmark

What's nice about the photos is that they seem to have been planned and taken with the intention of showing the good bits we all want to see as reference! Well doneJan (and Mark).