U Boat tour 2004

 I did this tour a while ago, so my memories are a bit vague. I got a boat from Harwich to Bremmerhaven, and went to find U2540, which is now a museum boat type XXI in very good condition

As can be seen from the pictures, it looks very modern, but was built before the end of the second world war, and scuttled by its own crew, then salvaged in 1957 and after a refit was used as a training boat for the German navy and is now called the Wilhelm Bauer who invented several hand powered submarines in the eighteen hundreds

    Next, after a good look round, I headed to Laboe to have a look at U995, which has been on my list for ages.

U995 is a type VII-C, the most common of the U-Boats

  

Next to the submarine is the Marine Ehrenmal (Naval memorial) it is 236 feet high, hollow in the middle

and has a good view of the submarine

which makes it look like a toy from that height.

   Nearby is a memorial to the u-boat crews who didn't make it back

Then it was off to find a campsite, and I found a good one near Schleswig-Holstein

which was in a nice location.

   Next morning, I popped over to Denmark for breakfast

The next day, I headed back to Bremmerhaven, and while I was waiting for the boat back to England, I found another submarine museum in a housing estate!

They even had the conning tower off a British Submarine

 

Then onto the boat for the trip home