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Can You Identify This Boat
Posted by: Jerry Mason ()
Date: May 19, 2001 07:36PM

<HTML>Can you identify this U-boat?

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I hope my on-line friends at the U-boat.net Forum will enjoy a mystery as much as I do and apply their considerable expertise and enthusiasm to this challenge. I received these photos of a U-boat commissioning from a gentleman in Canada who asked if I would help him identify the boat in the photos. He explained that the photos belonged to his father who served in the Canadian Navy in World War II and was stationed at Sherbrook N.S. at the end of the war.

My theory is that the boat is U-889 and that the photos were liberated from the boat when it was surrendered in May 1945. The details of the tubing that constricts the firing arc of the AA gun and the flagpole are consistent with photos of U-889.

You can see a the both photos and one of Brauecker aboard U-889 from the U.S. National Archives at:

[uboatarchive.net]

The following web sites provide photos of U-889 and U-190, another boat that surrendered to Canadian forces.

[www.hmcswindsor.com]

[www.hazegray.org]
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Subject Written By Posted
Can You Identify This Boat Jerry Mason 05/19/2001 07:36PM
RE: Can You Identify This Boat Antonio Veiga 05/19/2001 08:21PM
RE: Can You Identify This Boat Antonio Veiga 05/19/2001 08:26PM
RE: Can You Identify This Boat Axel 05/22/2001 06:38PM
RE: Can You Identify This Boat Jerry Mason 05/22/2001 10:24PM


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