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RE: Pic. U883 Can anyone identify ?
Posted by: joe brandt ()
Date: November 24, 2000 02:31AM

I have seen this picture and would like a more detailed answere myself,but in all my U-boat books this is all that I could find \"The casing has been recessed forward to reduce the deck area of the U-883 ( type IXD2 ) to aid more rapid diving. In the recess is fitted the acustic hammer which was operated ,while submerged, by a water-activated propeller\". The following was found in the book NAVIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR GERMAN SUBMARINES VOL. 1 by H.T. LENTON , MACDONALD&CO. LTD. 1965, page111. It is too small to be a storeage container and does not have all the features to be a mine paravane., could this \"acustic hammer \"have been used to detonate acustic mines or torpedoes ?

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Pic. U883 Can anyone identify ? James Stewart 11/23/2000 06:53PM
RE: Pic. U883 Can anyone identify ? joe brandt 11/24/2000 02:31AM
RE: Pic. U883 Can anyone identify ? Rainer Bruns 11/24/2000 08:42PM
RE: Pic. U883 Can anyone identify ? Lawrence 11/25/2000 03:13PM
RE: Pic. U883 Can anyone identify ? Rainer Bruns 11/25/2000 03:42PM
RE: Pic. U883 Can anyone identify ? joe brandt 11/26/2000 01:12AM
RE: Pic. U883 Can anyone identify ? Rainer Bruns 11/26/2000 02:06AM


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