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RE: U-47 Ventilation duct
Posted by: joe brandt ()
Date: October 23, 2000 07:54PM

The famous picture of PRIEN coming home after the SCAPA FLOW raid does show the small wintergarden and clearly the 20mm AA gun on the main deck aft of the conning tower. AT THIS TIME she may have had the central duct work ( but I doubt that ) and then was modified later. In WOLFGANG FRANKS book the wintergarden is enlarged and the 20mm gun is now on this conning tower deck, FRANK'S pictures were taken on the patrol before PRIEN was lost so without a doubt the U-47 had, AFTER the SCAPA FLOW raid major refit work done to her. I do not like to compair one boat to the next but the clear pictures of the U-48 ( also a type VII B ) shows that this boat also does not have the duct work AND was made at the same construction yard ( GERMANIA WERFT ,KIEL ). Could such things be particular to a certain construction yard ? , I doubt it and think this duct work was changed during the life of the boats during repair/refit times.
You are 100% right when you say at what time frame of the boat you are talking about as most boats were modified as the war changed.

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U-47 Ventilation duct Greg Dorfmeier 10/21/2000 08:50PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct joe brandt 10/22/2000 03:03PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Greg Dorfmeier 10/22/2000 08:15PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Antonio Veiga 10/22/2000 10:46PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Antonio Veiga 10/22/2000 10:57PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct joe brandt 10/22/2000 11:24PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Bill Dunn 10/23/2000 07:06AM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Antonio Veiga 10/23/2000 06:43PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct joe brandt 10/23/2000 07:54PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Antonio Veiga 10/23/2000 10:17PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct/Flender-werke Greg Dorfmeier 10/23/2000 08:09PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct/Flender-werke joe brandt 10/23/2000 09:23PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct/Flender-werke joe brandt 10/23/2000 11:18PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct/Flender-werke Greg Dorfmeier 10/24/2000 12:29AM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct/Flender-werke joe brandt 10/24/2000 01:03AM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Jeff LaRue 10/25/2000 04:37PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Greg Dorfmeier 10/25/2000 07:27PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Jeff LaRue 10/25/2000 08:30PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Greg Dorfmeier 10/25/2000 09:10PM


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