#ww2 german submarines

[deutschland-im-krieg]

U-204 entered service with the Kriegsmarine (German navy) on 8 March 1941. She made 3 combat campaigns under the command of Kapitänleutnant Walter Kehl. She sank four merchant ships and one warship with a total displacement of 18,420 tons. She was sunk on 19 October 1941 with the entire crew of 46 near Tangier, southwest of Gibraltar from depth charges by the Royal Navy corvette Mallow and the sloop Rochester

[dronescapesvideos]

German BV 138 flying boat rendezvous with a Kriegsmarine submarine, 1943. ➤➤ UNUSUAL SEAPLANES VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ThFL8GsIKd8

[silveragelovechild]

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (no spoilers)

I saw an early screening of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. It’s the new film directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Henry Cavill. It was far better than Cavill’s previous movie this year - Argyll. (I won’t go into details but Cavill wasn’t responsible for Argyll’s failure. That distinction goes to the muddled direction by Matthew Vaughn; a script filled with plot holes; and Bryce Dallas Howard playing the frumpy and unbelievable as a master spy.

But back to TMUW, it’s a heavily fictionalized version of an actual mission to thwart German submarines off the western coast of Africa during WW2. It’s an action movie with some comedy but never over the top. And it revels in killing Nazis. On a scale of Hated-it/Liked-it/Loved-it, I liked-it-plus. It kept my interest and I never felt bored.

A minor character in the film is future spy novelist Ian Fleming (Freddie Fox). It’s suggested that the mission was the inspiration for James Bond (a role that Cavill narrowly lost out to Daniel Craig).

But TMUW is more like Mission Impossible (the TV show, not the Tom Cruise movies). Cavill, with his wild curly hair and lumberjack style beard, leads a team with special skills.

Alan Ritchson (from “Reacher”) plays a Danish soldier who is a master archer. The real Dane who wasn’t nearly as muscular in real life. I enjoyed Ritchson’s performance, and I’d love to see him and Cavill work together again.

The film also stars:

Babs Olusanmokun (doctor on Star Trek Strange New Worlds).

Mexican actress Eiza González, a femfatal that might recognizer from Netflix’s 3 Body Problem.

Til Schweiger, the German-Brad-Pitt, plays the Nazi commandant.

Rory Kinnear is unrecognizable as Winston Churchill.

The movie is rated a hard R due to all the Nazis killed with guns, machine guns, arrows, knives, daggers, and bombs. After a while it’s like shooting fish in a barrel or shooting ducks at a carnival arcade.

If Guy Ritchie makes a sequel, I’d watch it.

[usafphantom2]

5 September 1939. First WW2 attack on a German submarine was made by an Avro Anson Mk.1 of 500 Squadron, 10 miles north of Ostend.

@ron_eisele via X

[enriquemzn262]

German WW2 submariners pose with their frozen main gun, somewhere in the North Sea.

[darkbluekies]

I was actually going to sleep then I saw you respond to my ask, I'm actually very interested and intrigued so I wanted to respond immediately!

— Jesus fucking Christ they actually measured the entirety of the ship? That level of hm, how does one describe this, pettiness or determination? Perhaps a sense of both, I mean I'd get petty too if I lost something valuable and ended up getting an unfair compensation. I wonder what the reaction of the Germans were when they realized they actually measured it.

— oh god that's actually so fucking hilarious 😭😭 getting worked up over nothing, I mean, at least they had a design? 😭

— That's quite something, Grey Ghost? Why is QMS nickname Grey Ghost? Does it have relations due to it being not found?

— I... I have no idea what to say 😭 that's actually so ironic

— Holy shit a ship sinking in just 14 minutes is plain terrifying?? Why did it sink that fast anyways?

— Wow... That's actually really sad and quite brave of him too, I don't think I've heard of the Wilhelm Gustloff disaster and 9000 deaths in one night is crazy. Hopefully that guy is doing alright, it's possible he might get survivors guilt, I might research about the disaster and see what I can find!

— woah, the first design is quite pretty! The second one reminds me of a factory for some reason

Ahh this is what little brain juice I can squeeze out from my brain, though I actually enjoyed this and it made my night more interesting! :D I'll head off to sleep now, goodnight!

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— lol apparently? there were more petty things in that affair, such as painting a ship supposed to be given to White Star Line in Germany's colors, turnign the british officers' quarters to a cleaning supply room etc lmao

— it was a design alright ... just not a good one. The wings of the golden eagle fell of during a storm so they're at the bottom of the atlantic right now. The eagle looks even more stupid without the wings😭 (picture at the bottom)

—The ship was painted fully grey because it was used as a troop ship which made it hard to find it. The ship was extremely fast, so it was fast to catch her. These two characteristics earned her the name The Grey Ghost. (picture at the bottom)

— the ships weren't even alike???? one had an funnel and whatnot?? i'm not even sure how they thought that it would work ... and it clearly didn't.

— It was a foggy night and two ships were supposed to go past each other, but in the fog they couldn't see each others lights, so a norweigan ship called Storstad rammed the side of Empress of Ireland and cut up a gigantic hole. The ship itself was almost half the size of titanic. A lot of people died that night because they didn't have the time to get out.

— I'm not even sure it was legal to sink the WG? I know that it had been a hospital ship during WW2 (it's seen as a war crime to sink a hospital ship), but it seems like it had returned to a normal ship during the time WG was sunk. The reason (i think) why it was sunk was because a lot of nazi party members were on board with their families, supposedly relocating to another country, and was sunken by soviet submarines. WIlhelm Gustloff could only carry 1465 passangers, but had around 10 000 during its sinking. Although there were many bad people on board there were children as well. The actor was a small child, so i hope that he doesn't remember much of it, because I cannot imagine the horror he must live with otherwise.

— Unfortunately, the times were changing and the edwardian design was no longer popular :( I would have loved another Olympmic class liner :(

here's a before an after of the eagle lmao

From left to right: SS Normandie, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Aquitania

I could talk about ocean liners forever. If I got paid by the hour to talk about them I would be so fucking rich I'm telling you

[angrygonk]

SURPRISE get ask game’d

Tell us 3 random facts about yourself, then ask some of the blogs on your notifs or mutuals (if you wanna)

Aight, ere we go: 1. I fucking love lil trinckets and antiques, curios, artifacts. My fucked up collection includes: russian tsar-era kopyeyki (lower denomination than the ruble), a pin for the 30 year celebration of a factory in the caucas or a fucking ww2 german tank wrench from a panther. I also have a shit ton of dice and even fictional coins.

2. I have recently started making submarines for barotrauma, but i haven't gotten around to posting them yet. My perfect creations include:

3. One of the most influential posts that has affected my life is probably the "I've traded my imposter syndrome for brilliant conman syndrome" one and it has really helped me with not getting burnt out and simply doing stuff.

[littlewestern]

I don’t know if this fits in with the lore but this funny scenario popped into my head. After 2903 arrived to IRM.

Pilot: “So you know Pioneer!”

2903: “Yep. A good friend. Same with the U Boat.”

P: “A U Boat? What kind? U25? U30?”

2903: The German kind.

P: “What?”

2903: What WW2.

P: “WHAT?!”

Lol, it's cute! Not really lore-complaint, as 2903 would never consider U-505 a friend and definitely knows about the war effort since his specs are a direct result of the wartime shortages of lightweight metals.

Pilot would know about U-505 as well since Pioneer's talked about the U-boat many times in the letters, as they are very good friends. We'll be digging into that relationship more as time goes on as well. Suffice to say, the steam engines view this with suspicion, but Pioneer is well-respected enough that they only really hassle the submarine about it, not Pioneer so much.

2903 and Pilot would still have plenty to talk about after the move though, especially how much more they have in common being engines without much pedigree or recognition when compared with the Pioneer Zephyr and NYC 999 who are just... ridiculously famous as engines go. 2903 likes the IRM atmosphere more, as its focus on showing history as it was as opposed to how people want to remember it jives well with his experience of being Just Some Guy. He and Pilot don't have stories or legacies like the MSI engines, so it's fitting for 2903 to live at the IRM where he can just be what he is and not have to worry about being compared to honest-to-god celebrity engines.

[porterdavis]

U-505 a German WW2 Type IXC submarine making its way through Milwaukee in July 1954. This submarine was captured on June 4 1944 and is on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. - 414 Milwaukee Mil Town

U-505 World War II German Untersee boot (U-boat) was the first foreign warship to be captured on the high seas by the United States Navy since 1815. A permanent exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry since 1954. - Milwaukee Waterways

The submarine was displayed in Milwaukee (a city with a large German population) in 1954 on its way to its permanent home at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

I spent a wide-eyed half hour aboard her during an elementary school field trip soon after it arrived. As I remember it seemed tiny inside, this despite the fact I was probably four feet tall at the time.

Photo - Milwaukee Journal

[deutschland-im-krieg]

The U-66 was a Type IXC submarine operated by the Kriegsmarine (German navy).  It was laid down on 20 March 1940 at the AG Wesser yard in Bremen, and launched on 10 October and commissioned on 2 January 1941 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Richard Zapp as part of the 2nd U-boat Flotilla.

U-66 was the seventh most successful U-boat in WW2, and over nine patrols she sank 33 merchant ships, for a total of 200,021 gross registered tons (GRT) and damaged two British motor torpedo boats (MTBs). On 6 May 1944, during her ninth patrol, she was sunk west of the Cape Verde Islands by depth charges, ramming and gunfire from Grumman TBF Avenger and Grumman F4F Wildcat aircraft from the USS Block Island (CVE-21) and the destoyer escort USS Buckley (DE-51).

The U-66 is pictured here after returning from her 6th combat patrol, under the command of the young 27 year old Kapitänleutnant Frederick Markworth. This was his first combat patrol with U-66 and it was conducted in the Caribbean Sea. Lorient, France, September 1942

[warsofasoiaf]

Is there a way Germany could have won WW1?

Very much so. It was very much a back-and-forth that could have gone many different ways for Germany, either early on, or even later. There are plenty of feasible paths to a Central Power victory, unlike WW2.

If the Germans had avoided Belgium, or perhaps flanked the French at the Marne. If the disastrous Chemin des Dames attack had caused an uprising against the French Republic instead of just the French officer corps. If the Americans maintained neutrality by not having submarine warfare. If the Germans had settled for a lighter peace at Brest-Litovsk and gotten its Eastern front troops to the west earlier. And so on, and so forth.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[vargamornight]

the only good thing to come out of the "angel gets blackmailed into a ww2 german submarine" episode is the man he cursed waxing poetic about hating having to be evil, of never having enjoyed any of it, "sixty years of blood drying in my throat like ashes," then asking if all of angel's vampires feel that way.

"you're the only one i ever did this to... after i got a soul."

"do i have one, too?"

this question is what matters. this episode, this godawful, war-boner episode, is the ONLY one that even tries to approach the subject of soulless beings not necessarily being evil. this vampire, a victim of circumstance, a pawn in angel's scheme to survive (which is at complete odds with how his past self has been portrayed in both series for five years), asks angel to give him a purpose. because the destruction, killing, torture—none of it did anything for him. this is a man whose one driving force was the desire to understand, to serve a purpose, and now that he's accepted he's a monster even if he doesn't enjoy it, he's asking the thing that made him this way to tell him what to do. asking him to at least point him in the right direction. "give me a mission," he begs.

and then angel kills him instead of even attempting to consider what this means. embarrassing.

[the-cryptic-dive]

The Flying Dutchman

The Flying Dutchman was a mythical ghostly ship cursed to sail the seven seas for eternity, never allowed to dock. While some say the ship herself is cursed, others say it’s the captain of the Dutchman that was cursed. Either way, the Flying Dutchman holds a long, twisting, and eerie story. While many people call it a fable told as a warning of the seas, sometimes by superstitious sailors, others have reported physically seeing the ship over the past few centuries. These reports span from the 1700s all the way to, surprisingly, World War II; most of these sightings are reported as occurring around Europe, or by Europeans/on European ships. For example, one sighting mentioned by Marine Insight was by a German submarine during WW2 while traveling east of Suez. 

The Flying Dutchman is agreed to have originated from the Dutch East India Company’s ship fleet. As such, she would travel between the Netherlands and the East Indies, referring to modern southeast Asia. She was a merchant ship carrying goods like spices and silks, but unfortunately sank in a storm while sailing back to Amsterdam. But how did she become cursed? According to the folklore of the ship, her crew urged the Captain to turn back to safety when they saw the upcoming storm, but he ignored them and, in turn, urged them to continue sailing, even if it meant the ship would sail “until doomsday.” Some versions of the story claim this angered the gods, cursing the ship to quite literally sail forever; others point to the devil overhearing the Captain and cursing him to eternally sail. The same article by Marine Insight claims that the Captain could redeem himself from the devil by way of the love of a faithful woman. In this version, the Captain was allowed to make land once every seven years to find such a woman, and consequentially, salvation.

[theaudientvoid]

I actually maintain that the country that "won" ww2 was Canada. So, like, both UK and USSR loose without constant supply convoys across the Atlantic from the US. The Germans knew this, so they had their submarines target these convoys. That's practically the only thing that the German Navy was good for for the entire war. This necessitated escort ships to defend the merchant fleets across the Atlantic. Escort ships that were predominantly crewed by Canadians.

[spacereich]

U-2540 (Wilhelm Bauer) U-2540 was a German Type XXI submarine commissioned by the Kriegsmarine in 1945, towards the end of World War II. After the war, it was seized by the British and later transferred to the Norwegian Navy, where it served until 1959. In 1960, U-2540 was sold to a private owner and used for civilian purposes before being retired and eventually restored as a museum exhibit in Germany. #ww2 #germany #germany🇩🇪 #uboat #U-2540 #kriegsmarine #worldwar2 #worldwar2history #navy #museum #submarine #thirdreichhistory #adolfhi̇tler https://www.instagram.com/p/Co4LGgstzst/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[misforgotten2]

Here’s a free story idea for you, what if the Germans instead submarines use actual sea monsters during WW2?

Pacific Motor Boat   June 1943