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Re: This is not a Type VII
Posted by: joe brandt ()
Date: November 23, 2001 10:16PM

<HTML>After looking at the pictures I think she is a type IXC and according to Fritz Köhl's book Vom original model type IXC the hand rail pattern would mean that this boat was made by DEUTSCHE WERFT AG HAMBURG and with the lot numbers of u-518-550 , 1221-1235 . Type 9's that had the olympic rings in this lot would be the u-546 , 534 , 1230 , 528 , 531 , 1224 .To me the drainage hole pattern looks like :
2 ,2, 4 ,6, 1, 7, 1/2 ,4 ,1, 7, 1/4-1/2 ,2 , according to Köhl's book ( page 26 ) this would give the following type 9 lot numbers :
u-183-194 , 533-550 , 841-846 , 853-858 , 865-870 , 877-881 , 889 , 1221-1235 . If you put this all together the possible choices are : u-534 , 546 . This should hold true if I am looking at the hand rail correctly , the top horizontal rail is NOT the same height from front to back but at the 6th stanchion it RAISES UP slightly all the way back to the last stachion . Also the reading of the drainage slots are important , before the last 2 normal sized slots are 2 smaller ones they could be concidered either a 1/2-1/2 slot or a 1/4-1/2 slot , to me it looks like the 1/4-1/2 hole . Please see Fritz Köhl 's book "VOM ORIGINAL ZUM MODELL: UBOOTTYP IXC pages 17 and 26 to see the charts that I used in this posting .</HTML>

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This is not a Type VII Antonio Veiga 11/23/2001 07:42PM
Re: This is not a Type VII Ted Agar 11/23/2001 08:04PM
Re: This is not a Type VII oliver 11/23/2001 09:43PM
Re: This is not a Type VII joe brandt 11/23/2001 10:16PM
Re: This is not a Type VII joe brandt 11/25/2001 04:34AM
Re: This is not a Type VII Antonio Veiga 11/25/2001 02:11PM
Re: This is not a Type VII axel 11/25/2001 10:03AM


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