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SEA => SUBS: Uboats => TYPE VII => Topic started by: bracco_n on 26 Jan , 2009, 16:35
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Hello everybody, I'm posting here a photo of my personal collection. In it you can see some boats of 24th Flotilla. I can clearly see some VIIC types, the stern of a type IX and an a U boat which I cannot identify. I'm adding a closeup of the boat.
(http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/8448/dsc06977gw9.jpg)
(http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/6402/dsc06979tn4.jpg)
I think that it might be a Type Xb because of the shape of the saddle tanks. But i've been told in another forum that it can't be, they didn't tell me anything else. I would like to hear your opinions, could this possibly be a type Xb?
Nicolas
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Sadle tanks look wider than normal VIIC, so im guessing it can be VIIF.
VIIF was 1,1m wider, to accomodate extra 24 torpedos, and oil.
As to the location- it looks like Norway? ???
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Siara, I've never thought about that! I've ralised that 5th U-flotilla also used a V as insignia . Assuming that it is a VIIF it must he 5th flotilla, assuming all those facts the picture is taken in Kiel.
Excellent Siara, thank you very much!
I would like to hear dougie's opinion.
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in Kiel there aren't any mountains! Can not be! Still looks like Norway to me.............
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Hi Nicolas,
It isn't an XB due to the size, or a VIIF. The location will likely be Trontheim in Norway, where the 24th were stationed for a while.
The tops of the saddle tanks look a bit flat for a VIIC, as you have noticed. The tops of the saddle tanks on the VIIAs were, I think, flatter in shape than the VIIC - a bit like in this photo. The hull sides above the tanks were also angled the same on the VIIAs as on this boat. The 24th did have a few VIIAs, and I've seen VIIAs of the 24th pictured in Trontheim.
I can't really tell due to the quality of the image but might it be a VIIA?
Cheers,
Dougie