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Running deck awash
Posted by: Dion ()
Date: July 01, 2004 09:07AM

I was under the impression that this was not a common or practical option. However it has been pointed out to me that I may be wrong, I know I know, you can't believe it either!

I was quoted...
'We ran with our decks awash, our bow and stern buoyancy tanks preflooded for instant diving, and our hearts in our mouths. Every hour we spent in our nightmarish passage through these dangerous waters was likely to be our last one.'
This is how Commander Herbert A. Werner describes his passage through the Biscay Bay on U-230 in the early November 1943 (Iron Coffins, p.171, ISBN 0-306-81160-X).

Can anyone shed some light on this practice.

Thanks in advance.

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Running deck awash Dion 07/01/2004 09:07AM
Re: Running deck awash Wiljan Bakers 07/02/2004 06:00PM
Re: Running deck awash Rainer Bruns 07/02/2004 06:42PM
Re: Running deck awash Dan Odenweller 07/03/2004 03:40AM


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