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RE: U-47 Ventilation duct
Posted by: Antonio Veiga ()
Date: October 23, 2000 06:43PM

Hi guys

I have a look to the book "German U-BOAT type VII", and in page 12 can be seen a photo of U-47 conning tower with at least one side external (starboard) ventilation trunk duct.
Also it can be observed that she has been modified with the Turm 0 enlarged wintergarten.

We all can be speaking about the same U-Boat, but with different looks
depending on the date.

Almost no ship have a fixed appearance during her lifetime.

The question for modelers is: "What exact moment/date I want to represent with my model?"

In this case I think the modeler wants to represent U-47 about the date of
Scapa Flow raid.

After looking a lot of photos I can only affirm that, in this date ,U-47 has the small wintergarten, aft deck Flak mounting, and has not side external ventilation ducts trunks but ,you are right Joe ,I cannot assure whether she has or has not central ventilation duct or inner side ducts.
(See the famous photos in which the U-Boat is passing the greeting crews of
several warships at Kiel harbour on october 23th, 1.939).

Best Regards




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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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