This is fantastic my Grandfather sailed on the HMS Mendip (L60) from 1942 when she was the senior ship in the 21 flotilla this has made my day thank you so much for uploading it
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The folly of scuttling U Boats and ships never ceases to amaze me. Britain had a huge steel shortage and thousands of demobbed soldiers. Wouldnt it have made much more sense to cut these vessels up for their high quality steel. It was also irresponsible to sink some ships containing dangerous chemicals. I am no greenie but fear what may happen when the gas canisters and ships detetiorate.
People collect amber at the Baltic shore and burst in flames. The "amber" they put into their pockets was yellow phospherous which is now set free after the shells that once surrounded it has rusted away.
Now there are only 3 intact U-boats, a Type VII, a Type IX, and a Type XXI. Hopefully more can be raised without cutting them up, but I’m sure finding a U-boat that isn’t a coffin for its crew will be hard
A type 21 uboat has been found resently and it has been confirmed that nobody lays dead inside - a diver has been down on 75 meter depth to check that the tower hatch stood open and it did thereby signaling the crew came out , it was the plan to seek permit from the deutche war grave administration to raise it but the plan has temporarly been putting on hold becauce one of the men behind the plan suddenly died , he was called dynamite Åge and the raising of the uboat should have been his finale goal becauce he had know the location of the uboat for many years - and the 20 plus millions it cost to raise it i dont know if they are avaible at the moment - the last uboat raised by this company was the one that came to Liverpool and sadly has been cut up in 3 pieces (thinks its a crime doing that) .
It seems to me that some shots of this footage were done onboard of ORP Garland (H37) and ORP Piorun (G65). Piorun is clearly visible during end sequence, firing pom-poms and 120mm on her stern. Garland is probably on the sequence with the single bow turret firing.
ANY Navy in 1946 would have given anything to be allowed to keep a couple of those, the most advanced subs in the world at the time, especially the ones of the ultra-modern Type 23 (those we see here bearing theit ID number in the 2000s...). But it had been agreed among the Allies that they would only keep the fantastic Type 21 and the rest should be destroyed after a time used to study the boats.
Yep but it was British made and given to Polish navy in exile and were under British command although nearly all seamen were polish. I doubt if they going back home to Poland as their country suddenly under Soviet Communist rule.
This is fantastic my Grandfather sailed on the HMS Mendip (L60) from 1942 when she was the senior ship in the 21 flotilla this has made my day thank you so much for uploading it
Thanks for your comment Dominic! I'd love to hear a bit more about your connection to this wonderful clip. ! I’m currently working on a project within the
British Movietone archive where we are gathering memories that are triggered by
seeing our videos on TH-cam and would love to ask you a few questions. Please
feel free to either respond to this comment, or you can contact me directly via
info@aparchive.com - Layla @ Movietone
The folly of scuttling U Boats and ships never ceases to amaze me. Britain had a huge steel shortage and thousands of demobbed soldiers. Wouldnt it have made much more sense to cut these vessels up for their high quality steel. It was also irresponsible to sink some ships containing dangerous chemicals. I am no greenie but fear what may happen when the gas canisters and ships detetiorate.
People collect amber at the Baltic shore and burst in flames. The "amber" they put into their pockets was yellow phospherous which is now set free after the shells that once surrounded it has rusted away.
What a stupid waste of beautiful engineering and machinery.
Now there are only 3 intact U-boats, a Type VII, a Type IX, and a Type XXI. Hopefully more can be raised without cutting them up, but I’m sure finding a U-boat that isn’t a coffin for its crew will be hard
A type 21 uboat has been found resently and it has been confirmed that nobody lays dead inside - a diver has been down on 75 meter depth to check that the tower hatch stood open and it did thereby signaling the crew came out , it was the plan to seek permit from the deutche war grave administration to raise it but the plan has temporarly been putting on hold becauce one of the men behind the plan suddenly died , he was called dynamite Åge and the raising of the uboat should have been his finale goal becauce he had know the location of the uboat for many years - and the 20 plus millions it cost to raise it i dont know if they are avaible at the moment - the last uboat raised by this company was the one that came to Liverpool and sadly has been cut up in 3 pieces (thinks its a crime doing that) .
From this video there appears to be dozens of damaged uboats off the northern irish coast. None are war graves. They were scuttled.
Polish crew keeps eye on everything
Awsome,,,!,
119 uboat sailed from Lissahally to be sunk
It seems to me that some shots of this footage were done onboard of ORP Garland (H37) and ORP Piorun (G65). Piorun is clearly visible during end sequence, firing pom-poms and 120mm on her stern. Garland is probably on the sequence with the single bow turret firing.
sad they didnt save a couple as history pieces, suppose nobody considered it back then
ANY Navy in 1946 would have given anything to be allowed to keep a couple of those, the most advanced subs in the world at the time, especially the ones of the ultra-modern Type 23 (those we see here bearing theit ID number in the 2000s...). But it had been agreed among the Allies that they would only keep the fantastic Type 21 and the rest should be destroyed after a time used to study the boats.
That ship is Polish
Yep but it was British made and given to Polish navy in exile and were under British command although nearly all seamen were polish.
I doubt if they going back home to Poland as their country suddenly under Soviet Communist rule.
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