{"id":1468,"date":"2017-08-08T18:53:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2017-12-21T00:11:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T00:11:41","slug":"submarines-intriguing-and-almost-unbelievable-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/submarines-intriguing-and-almost-unbelievable-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re Intriguing and Almost Unbelievable \u2013 Go See THIS One in Germany!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They go very deep into the world\u2019s oceans. They\u2019re still \u2013 in my mind \u2013 beyond belief as one wonders how do so many tons of steel actually float. Some can even hide \u2013 yes, hide! \u2013 in the depths of Davy Jones Locker for months on end without coming up for air. If you have even half of one per cent feelings of claustrophobia, they\u2019re not for you, EVER!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1471\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20000-Leagues_book-_cover.jpg\" alt=\"book cover of Jules Verne's classic, '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea'\" width=\"300\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20000-Leagues_book-_cover.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20000-Leagues_book-_cover-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>They\u2019re submarines, and growing up in England with its seagoing history, I was captivated by these miracles of engineering and technical brilliance. My childhood fascination was fueled in part by reading the <em>must-see-the-next-page<\/em> in the 1871 Jules Verne classic, <em>20,000 Leagues Under The Sea<\/em>, book. Featuring a submarine type mechanical monster deep below the surface, it was excitement personified for a 10 year old. However, there was little likelihood of my seeing a genuine submarine in <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-john-london2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Soar many decades into the future, and my life as an airline PR executive and later travel journalist, when I got to see the world and its many wonders above the ground and, under the wave tops. For a striking example of what a 21st century submarine represents, there\u2019s no better illustration than the statistics of an American OHIO class submarine. Weighing in at nearly seventeen thousand tons, and a length of 560 feet, along with a crew of 15 officers and 140 (!) enlisted men, it staggers the imagination that something so vast, so big and with so many crew members on board, can whoosh through undersea waters, at 25 knots or 29 mph! Incredible.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1474\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1474\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/OHIO-Class_Submarine.jpg\" alt=\"an Ohio Class submarine of the US Navy\" width=\"480\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/OHIO-Class_Submarine.jpg 480w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/OHIO-Class_Submarine-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An American OHIO class submarine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of this is even more astonishing when you contrast today\u2019s subs, their crew size, weight and overall technical knowledge, and those from World War Two when an American GATO class sub checked in at 1,525 tons; had 6 officers and 54 enlisted men; it could traverse its undersea missions at only 9 knots, with what is called an &#8220;Endurance&#8221; of just 75 days &#8211; startling when you remember that the OHIO class subs have an Endurance that&#8217;s limited ONLY by the amount of food supplies they can take on board. In short, almost endless.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an interesting insight into what people think, when you ask someone who knows about, or remembers, WW2. <em>\u201cWhat are the images that you think about when the war at sea is mentioned<\/em>.\u201d The answer heard most often is German U-Boats. During the war\u00a0<strong>U<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>boats sank<\/strong>\u00a0about 2,779\u00a0<strong>ships<\/strong>\u00a0for a total of 14.1 million tons GRT. This figure is roughly 70% of all <strong>allied <\/strong>shipping losses in all theatres of the war and to all hostile action. The most successful year was 1942 when over 6 million tons of shipping\u00a0<strong>were sunk<\/strong>\u00a0in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1470\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1470\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/U-boats_at_Brest.jpg\" alt=\"U-Boats at a reinforced concrete pen in Brest France during World War 2\" width=\"850\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/U-boats_at_Brest.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/U-boats_at_Brest-600x409.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/U-boats_at_Brest-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/U-boats_at_Brest-768x523.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U-Boats in their WW2 BREST, France sub \u201cPen.\u201d These concrete structures were so thick and so gigantic, that they were impervious to all Allied bombing raids to destroy them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of all the amazing sights I\u2019ve seen around the world, one of the most intriguing was when I visited Kiel in Germany to see up close and more personal than I\u2019d ever imagined, U-Boat 995. Located 56 miles from <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel-3things-hamburg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamburg, Germany<\/a>, Kiel has been one of the traditional homes of the German Navy and, in WW2, it was one of the key ports for U-Boats. I wanted to visit <strong><u>THIS<\/u><\/strong> German city because I knew (back in the 1980s) it was the only location in Europe where one could see a real WW2 Nazi U-Boat.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1473\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1473\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Inside_U-995.jpg\" alt=\"interior of U-995\" width=\"850\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Inside_U-995.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Inside_U-995-600x426.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Inside_U-995-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Inside_U-995-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Inside_U-995-104x74.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside U-995<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>U995 is a Type V11C\/41 U-boat of Nazi Germany&#8217;s Kriegsmarine, launched 22nd July 1943. During her brief career, she sank six ships totaling nine thousand, four hundred and seventy tons of Allied shipping.\u00a0 She was captured \u2013 and surrendered \u2013 to the British in Trondheim, Norway in May, 1945, and was transferred to Norwegian ownership in 1948. In 1965 the Norwegians got rid of her, and sold her \u2013 <em>are you ready for this<\/em> \u2013 to Germany for ONE Deutschemark! Or about a buck!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1475\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1475\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/U995_Kiel.jpg\" alt=\"the U-995 in Kiel and the Kiel Memorial\" width=\"850\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/U995_Kiel.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/U995_Kiel-600x282.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/U995_Kiel-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/U995_Kiel-768x361.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LEFT: U-995 in Kiel. RIGHT: The Kiel Memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3792\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3792\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HMS_Alliance.jpg\" alt=\"British WW2 submarine HMS Alliance on display at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport, in England\" width=\"850\" height=\"1295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HMS_Alliance.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HMS_Alliance-600x914.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HMS_Alliance-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HMS_Alliance-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HMS_Alliance-672x1024.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HMS Alliance, a British WW2 submarine on display at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport, in England. The museum traces the international history of submarine development from the age of Alexander the Great to the present day \u2013 and it is fascinating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Given the history &#8211; famous and infamous \u2013 of German U-boats in WW2, the Germans\u2019 decided to make a museum for her in the Laboe Naval Memorial in Kiel. So in October 1971 German U-Boat 995 found a permanent home. Small by today\u2019s standards, she had a crew of between 45 and 52 officers and ratings. Maximum voyage endurance was about eight thousand miles. To try and escape the bombing and depth charges of British and American ships sent out to hunt her \u2013 and other Kriegsmarine subs \u2013 she could dive to a depth of 750 feet.<\/p>\n<p>By war&#8217;s end, 630 U-boats had been sunk by the Allies, with 81 additional U-boats sent to the bottom of Davy Jones Locker by mines. Being on a U-boat tended to be a very \u201cLife Shortening\u201d existence &#8211; the number of men who served on U-boats was 40,000, and 30,000 of that number never returned. If U-boats are YOUR thing, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uboat.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.uboat.net<\/a> \u2013 It\u2019s absolutely riveting. Before I close out my Traveling Boy feature for August, let me share one final comment. Much as subs fascinate and intrigue me, I cannot possibly go on or in one. I\u2019m far, FAR too claustrophobic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They go very deep into the world\u2019s oceans. They\u2019re still \u2013 in my mind \u2013 beyond belief as one wonders how do so many tons of steel actually float. Some can even hide \u2013 yes, hide! \u2013 in the depths of Davy Jones Locker for months on end without coming up for air. 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