German U-boat may be at bottom of Labrador river

[blazer91]

http://www.google.ca/url?url=http://...GzbhMixYyF1aiQ

More incredible underwater war history (not confirmed yet) in Canadian waters, looking forward to more on this story.
Jim

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[browningautorifle]

There's all sorts of U-boats in the Gulf of St Lawrence and the areas around NFLD. I don't think this one more should surprise anyone...the only place they haven't appeared is the Battle River.

[NRA]

but? I do not see it??????

[Peter Laidler]

Neither can I....................

[Patrick Chadwick]

Well if that's a submarine, I have seen more convincing pictures of the Loch Ness monster - also sonar. And of the spurious "Nazi gold" in the Toplitzer See - also sonar. Sonar pictures are as open to wild interpretation as those shadow pictures you make with your hand on a wall or Rorschach ink blots. There is no scale on the picture, so does it cover a width of an inch, a mile, or what?

And could someone even suggest why a U-boat should be 60 miles up a river in Labrador. Were they looking for the North-West Passage?

[Peter Laidler]

You're right there Pat.......... Mr Corbin should have put his pictures directly onto this form for some straight talking common sense comments first! The nearest thing I can 'identify' is the cockpit area/windscreen/glass of a flying fortress with a collapsed forward and rearwards section (top centre section of pic). But, without scale, Uboat/Flying fortress........, what's the difference!

It reminds me of the 12 Spitfires 'found' buried in Burma. 11 months to go to find if I loose or keep my £20 wager

But keep us informed Blazer............

[Lee Enfield]

[QUOTE=Peter Laidler;230667]You're right there Pat.......... Mr Corbin should have put his pictures directly onto this form for some straight talking common sense comments first! The nearest thing I can 'identify' is the cockpit area/windscreen/glass of a flying fortress with a collapsed forward and rearwards section (top centre section of pic). But, without scale, Uboat/Flying fortress........, what's the difference!

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He claims it's exactly 150' long, the pressure hull on a Type VIIA was 140', however the total length was 202'

The Type VIIC (most common) was 160' pressure hull and total length of 214'

While most salt water wrecks have lost the fairing portions of the hull, the clean cold river should preserve it, so the sonar signature should be closer to 200'

[Peter Laidler]

I read that of course L-E, l but what part of the photo shows the pressure hull or is the WHOLE photo part of the pressure hull.

[blazer91]

I read a follow-up story today, (you can google it if interested) still sounds pretty interesting, i'll be following it.
cheers

I just re-read the original story and a key picture is no longer there, as noted by others. gotta be a reason for this....?

[Patrick Chadwick]

...incredible...not confirmed...

I think those are the key words.

If that is supposed to be a U-boot, why does it have what looks like a pair of davits (about 15% of the way in from the top left)?
Note that they are higher than the supposed "conning tower", which would have been much more decay-resistant than any mere davits.

It is supposed to be in a river, not at the bottom of the Atlantic. And this is supposed to be summer. So a scuba diver could have taken a look almost immediately. The lack of this simple verification increases my scepticism.

My quess: when someone does dive down, they are going to discover a long sunken and forgotten river barge.

Has anyone got any other comments on the sonar picture, i.e. what you can actually see, not the fanciful interpretation?