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RE: No end to the fairytailes...
Posted by:
M.S.Laarman
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Date: April 16, 2001 04:36PM
<HTML>It is certainly worth the visit. I guess you will only have a chance to see such a wreck wearing scubagear. It is however remarkably recognizable, with a very specific \' odeur du temps\' .
Forget what they tell you at the museum, 3 people employed their told us different stories about the valuables still on board. They are clearly making up those stories, and that is what is wrong. A museum should tell history as it is, not adding spicy ( and even worse, false) stories just to add more visitors.
The war at sea has a lot of fascinating, unbelievable, remarkable stories, and there is no need to make up fairytales. That is what I found te be a disadvantage of the museum.
Kind regards,
Maurice
John Griffiths wrote:
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Remarkably, when I visited the boat 1 year ago, the guide told us that the tanks still were filled with fuel. He even mentioned that there might be valuables inside it. But, because they couldn’t find a economic way to get rid of the oil, which was considered chemical waste, they were still filled. Wouldn’t a oil company get all of it out within a short time?<<
I would have said that draining the tanks before she was brought ashore would have been a wise move - the ullage space left would have needed to be gas freed - and I doubt whether any marine surveyor who agreed the tow would have allowed men to work on welding her to the pontoon barge deck with fuel still in the tanks. Then again, that\\\\\\\'s my view.
>> Remember, the U-534 was already since May 1996 in Birkenhead. Then, some other question arises, why should an oil company want all of the fuel, since a small part will be enough to determine it’s content?<<
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Forget what they tell you at the museum, 3 people employed their told us different stories about the valuables still on board. They are clearly making up those stories, and that is what is wrong. A museum should tell history as it is, not adding spicy ( and even worse, false) stories just to add more visitors.
The war at sea has a lot of fascinating, unbelievable, remarkable stories, and there is no need to make up fairytales. That is what I found te be a disadvantage of the museum.
Kind regards,
Maurice
John Griffiths wrote:
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>>M.S.Laarman wrote:
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Remarkably, when I visited the boat 1 year ago, the guide told us that the tanks still were filled with fuel. He even mentioned that there might be valuables inside it. But, because they couldn’t find a economic way to get rid of the oil, which was considered chemical waste, they were still filled. Wouldn’t a oil company get all of it out within a short time?<<
I would have said that draining the tanks before she was brought ashore would have been a wise move - the ullage space left would have needed to be gas freed - and I doubt whether any marine surveyor who agreed the tow would have allowed men to work on welding her to the pontoon barge deck with fuel still in the tanks. Then again, that\\\\\\\'s my view.
>> Remember, the U-534 was already since May 1996 in Birkenhead. Then, some other question arises, why should an oil company want all of the fuel, since a small part will be enough to determine it’s content?<<
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Subject | Written By | Posted |
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U-534 Info needed | John Griffiths | 04/15/2001 04:11PM |
RE: U-534 Info needed | Rainer Bruns | 04/15/2001 06:43PM |
RE: U-534 Info needed | John Griffiths | 04/15/2001 07:17PM |
No end to the fairytailes... | M.S.Laarman | 04/16/2001 11:41AM |
RE: No end to the fairytailes... | Rainer Bruns | 04/16/2001 01:09PM |
RE: No end to the fairytailes... | John Griffiths | 04/16/2001 04:00PM |
RE: No end to the fairytailes... | M.S.Laarman | 04/16/2001 04:36PM |