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German Submarines

Pictures of submarines of the German Kriegsmarine of 1935 to 1945 on display. U 505 is in Chicago, U 995 is located in Laboe near Kiel and U 2540 in Bremerhaven. More information about these and another boat in the article German Submarines.

2010 April 7 15 / 2014 March 11

Bremerhaven (161) Chicago (155) Germany (318) Illinois (155) Laboe (157) Museum of Science and Industry (155) Rabea (1) Type IX (155) Type VII (157) Type XXI (161) U 2540 (161) U 505 (155) U 995 (157)

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Stern Room Before leaving the boat you can visit the stern room. Right hand next to the bulkhead door a depth bilge pump is installed, at the left there is a second W.C. (only to W.C. for 58 men crew!). Behind that you will see the so-called Boldsluice, a small torpedo tube for pyrotechnical signal ammunition as well as means of camouflage and dazzle. On the right side two large air bottles are placed. In the stern part you will see the emergency steering gear for the vertical rudder and rear diving plane. The round manhole being in the middle is the frogman sluice (decompression chamber). Through this sluice frogmen could start for operation.
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Gauges for the pressure of the alternative cooling water pump.
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Stern room.
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Frogman Sluice This sluice enabled the frogmen to leave the submarine down to 20 m depth of water. For this purpose they got from below into the chamber, which then was shut and flooded. After pressure equalizing the frogmen could leave the submarine through the escape tower in the hull and return on the say way. The sluice was also equipped with a speak-and-call system (voice transmitter and loudspeaker) which enabled a communication between ship's crew and frogmen.
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Frogmen sluice.
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Hand wheel to operate the rudders in case of emergency.
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In the tight stern room.
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Air bottles.
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Behind this door is the second toilett of the boat.
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The second toilett.
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Another pressure gauge in the stern room.
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Port side of U 2540.
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The swans seem to know that they can find a lot of food around the submarine.
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Starboard side of U 2540. Normally, boats of this type were lower at the water with the water line approximately at the change of the two gray tones. Most of the batteries have been removed and this made the submarine a lot lighter. Doing this allowed the addition of an entrance and an exit on the port side.
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Starboard side of U 2540.
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Starboard side of U 2540.
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