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6 years ago

JOÃO MAIO

Hi I would like to know if it is really true thatthere was an Uboat base in the Island Fuerteventura, Canarias Archipel
Forum: General Discussions

10 years ago

vito

2. Re: U-boats on Fuerteventura ?

Laurie, A legend my friend. Villa Winter was built after 1950 and has no bearing on visiting U-Boats. True, a strange place to build a large home - that is the only mystery regarding Villa Winter at Cofete. The background history on Herr Gustav Winter has also been established. The water depth around the so-called caves would never permit access a U-Boat. Rip tides and surf conditions aroun
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10 years ago

laurie

3. Re: U-boats on Fuerteventura ?

Villa Winter is on the southern end of the island, near to the deserted vllage of Coffette. The villa still has evidence around it, of war materials used at the time, with names like Krupp. Rumour abounded for years about there being an underground tunnel from the villa to a secret sub base in the cliffs not far away, and when you consider that Martin was an engineer, designed and bult u boat pen
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10 years ago

laurie

4. Re: U-boats on Fuerteventura ?

Fuerteventura was used frequently by uboats, stopping off to refuel, rearm and crew resting. Also a major stopping point for escaping nazi criminals at the end of the war. My Uncle witnessed this, as he was there.
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13 years ago

Ã…kerberg

5. Re: I Need Some Help

Fuerteventura from Vazquez Figueroa?
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17 years ago

Paul M. Lawton, Esq.

6. Re: Shallow Water U-boat Locations

Hi Ed, Try This was a rare phenomenon that has not occurred since. I do not know of any other U-boat wrecks that can be observed from the surface aside from a photo in one of Jak P. Mallmann Showell's books showing what are allegedly two surrendered World War I era German U-boats exposed at low tide in a tidal estuary somewhere in England. On an off note, Google Earth is quite interesti
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17 years ago

Franco

7. Re: U-boats on Fuerteventura ?

Do you have a latitude longitude for the base? I live in Lanzarote and am planning a trip to go an check it out. Thanks, Franc
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18 years ago

British Sapper

8. Re: U-boats on Fuerteventura ?

Vielen danke Rainer ! I knew about Winter. I had never seen him classified as being abwehhr, though this does not surprise me.
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18 years ago

Rainer Bruns

9. Re: U-boats on Fuerteventura ?

Hi BS, Use the search engine above. Type in Fuerteventura, lleave all dates and hit 'enter'. You will see the obove subject was discussed a couple years back. Yes, the guy who leased the SW end of Fuerte (Winter) was an Abwehr-Agent. And no, it was no R&R place for wolf-packs. Rgds, RB
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18 years ago

British Sapper

10. U-boats on Fuerteventura ?

Fuerteventura in the Spanish Canary islands, was a R&R place for U-boat packs, as a reward for German help to General Franco, in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. There are many rumours about the south of Fuerteventura, but what are the real facts ? Apparently the whole of the south of the island was given to a German bloke, who was a 'spy' in effect, for Nazi Germany.
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20 years ago

pepe doreste

11. Re: Secret U-boat base in Fuerteventura

<HTML>Lo de la base de submarinos en Fuerteventura ha sido uno de los camelos mÃ¡s grandes de la historia reciente de Canarias. HistÃ³ricamente, los submarinos italianos y alemanes se suministraron esporÃ¡dicamente durante 1941, en el Puerto de la Luz de Las Palmas. Saludos,</HTML>
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20 years ago

Manuel

12. Secret U-boat base in Fuerteventura

<HTML>Hello, Can anybody tell me anything about "mystical" German U-boat secret base somewhere around the island of Fuerteventura (Canary islands) during the WW II.? Thanks in advance. Manuel</HTML>
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20 years ago

EspaÃ±a

13. Re: Man rescate

<HTML>Buenas tardes ! Mas sobre la final de la batalla (1) Estuve en la Isla del Hierro, se que hay algo de largo con liÃ±as cuadriculares mas u menos 80 metros de profondidad situado en la baya de Naos, tambien Â« avia Â» una cadena muy grande a mas u menos 15 metros de profondidad ! Gergovia era un vapor Frances hundido por submarino aleman a 166 millas de Las Palmas, 20 tripulantes sa
Forum: WWI forum

20 years ago

Yves D

14. Re: Man rescate

<HTML>El ATLAS fue hundido por el U-156 el 10.1.1918 25 mi. a lo largo de Fuerteventura. No tengo informacion sobre el Gergovia. Que typo de barco ? Hundido o solamente daÃ±ado ? Saludos Yves</HTML>
Forum: WWI forum

21 years ago

Walter

15. Re: pens in fuerteventura

<HTML>Rainer, I forgot it, thanks for your information. It would be interesting to identify (if is possible) those boats. Best regards.</HTML>
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21 years ago

Rainer Bruns

16. Re: pens in fuerteventura

<HTML>Walter, You remember U234, which capitulated at war's end with uranium for Japan aboard. Well, that was not the first attempted shipment. Rgds, RB</HTML>
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21 years ago

Walter

17. Re: pens in fuerteventura

<HTML>Many thanks Rainer for your answer. I hope some day this mistery be solved. I do not understand well the "radioactive material" inside one of the the wrecked boats, it is very dangerous to transport this material aboard a sub. Which purpose?. Where were going the sub? Why? How were sunken?. Too many questions. Anyway, it is a very interesting history. Best regards</HTML&g
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21 years ago

Rainer Bruns

18. Re: pens in fuerteventura

<HTML>Hi Walter, I do not remember much about it. It was a point of lengthy discussion on the German U-board, when Heinrich S. was still alive and relatively active there. I had made some notes abt it on my computers, but all those files were sunk in my big computer crash last year. Unfortunately, the U-board does not have a search engine. Rgds, RB</HTML>
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21 years ago

Walter

19. Re: pens in fuerteventura

<HTML>Rainer, Can you give me more data about these U-boats? Do you know the date of wreck or something more? This is new for me. Many thanks in advance. Regards</HTML>
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21 years ago

Rainer Bruns

20. Re: pens in fuerteventura

<HTML>Jon, off the SW coast of Jandia peninsular there are supposedly TWO Uboats in fairly deep water, difficult but diveable. Be careful and DO NOT try to gain access. Not veryfied by me: one is said to be a war grave, the other is said to have toxic and/or radioactive cargo aboard. Supplier of this info, ex Uboat staff officer, now deceased. Rgds, RB</HTML>
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21 years ago

Jon Black

21. Re: pens in fuerteventura

<HTML>Thanks to both of you for your speedy replies why i ask is that i move to fuerteventura in august and been there several times two divers had told me they were there and that they had dived them so i wanted to try and establish if they exist they said they could only be dived by boat i will try and find out more but thanks again JON</HTML>
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21 years ago

Walter

22. Re: pens in fuerteventura

<HTML>I agree with Rainer. There was not any pen or u-boat base on Fuerteventura. Jak Showell writes about this in one of his books. Perhaps there was a project sponsored by H. GÃ³ring (according R. Whealey: Hitler & Spain). To the Canary Islands were sended two naval expeditions to explore suitable places for a supposed fishery bussines but at the end there was not nothing, perhaps onl
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21 years ago

Rainer Bruns

23. Re: pens in fuerteventura

<HTML>Hi Jon, Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, there were NO Uboat pens anywhere on Fuerte or any other island of the Canaries. There are a number of sub-marine and surface natural caves - both on the northwest and southeast coasts near the 'famous' Villa Winter on the southwestern end of the island. These caves (either too shallow ot too short) were unsuitable for Uboat
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21 years ago

Jon Black

24. pens in fuerteventura

<HTML>Can anyone provide information about uboat pens on the Canary Island of fuerteventura i believe they are situated near a small village of Ajuy all information would be appreciated</HTML>
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22 years ago

mike marrero

25. Re: Villa Winter

<HTML>Dear Ulrich,thank you very much for the information.The thing is that I have published a book,Historia oculta de Canarias,(Secret History of the Canaries) where I write something about the U-boat base of Jandia,Fuerteventura,but the family Winter and their friends replied me that all I say is just a legend.Anyway I have some information of the Foreign Office and of a former british se
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22 years ago

mike marrero

26. U-boats in Canary Islands

<HTML>Actually there is a debate in the Canary Islands about if Germany had an U-boat secret base in the peninsula of Jandia,Fuerteventura.We know that Jandia belonged to a german engineer during the II World War,named G.Winter and we know about the airfield of his peninsula of Jandia.Anyway if anybody can tell me any other information about this secret base I would be very please.Thank you
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23 years ago

Rainer Bruns

27. RE: Das Boot Sound Track

<HTML>Hi KPP, Seems you answered that question before in Carsten\'s Forum. BTW, what do you think about those postings re Villa Winter, Fuerteventura, and Uboat caves? By now I am really intrigued. Rgds, RB</HTML>
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23 years ago

Andrew Mair

28. RE: sub pens in tenerife

<HTML>Hi Ian, I have never heard of there being sub pens in Tenerife used by the Germans, although German supply ships refueled U-Boats in neighbouring Gran Canaria. There are however stories relating to a secret German sub base in the island of Fuerteventura, also in the Canary Islands. These stories tend to centre on a location in the SW of the island near the Villa Winter. There is much
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