Hi Simon,
Congrats to the French dock workers, they must be good at riveting by now!
Your Atlantic bow question is a good one, though difficult to resolve with any level of certainty. I wouldn't be surprised if the Atlantic bow varied between shipyards? I don't think I could tell the difference between tapering back to 79 or 104 using period photos. My guess - and it is only a guess - for VIIC/41s would be tapering back to 79.
Regarding the vents at the stern in Westwood's VIIC/41 plan, I've never seen them on any VIIC or VIIC/41 photo. Notice that he also has these vents on the VIID and VIIF plans. I wonder if they originated from a VIID or VIIF plan and Westwood incorrectly applied them to his VIIC/41 profile? I haven't seen this area of a VIIF (or for that matter a VIID) so it may be possible these vents were on VIIFs?
Cheers,
Dougie
Thanks Dougie for your help again
I have never seen any original Type VIIC/41 plans, all the ones I have are for VIIC. Maybe it will be one of them things we will never give the answer until we found a set Type VIIC/41 deck plans. Nevertheless, you make a very point about varied between shipyards.
I have a set of plans for the Type VIID, I will check this out later, although I think is very unlikely as I believe the stern and bow sections are identical between the VIID/F and VIIC.
Yes, the French dock workers are good riveter now
That not counting the 4000 plus rivets I added for the stern section the another day
Make you wonder how many rivets are on U-Boat