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Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ???
Posted by: Simon Gunson ()
Date: April 04, 2006 09:46AM

On U-864 found recently near bergen Norway, the mercury was not in an amalgam, but was carried in steel bottles like scuba bottles.

The U-234 cargo was as far as I can learn carried in the mine shafts. Uranium-hexaflouride is a very dangerous corrosive gas and I doubt was carried by any U-boat. The flouric acid was added by the Japanese after delivery to their enrichment plant.

The uranium-oxide from U-234 was bound, I gather, for the Tadami armaments factory on Okuno Island in Hiroshima harbour. Lt Commander Miroshi Ishiwatari of the IJN handled uranium shipments. From Hiroshima Lt Col Seiichi Niizuma had the uranium transported to Hungnam (then called Konan) in Korea.

It seems as though uranium would mainly have been carried by transport u-boats rather than fighting u-boats. According to MAGIC decrypts in US archives the first such shipment by u-boat happened shortly after 18 November 1943 and my guess is that UIT-22 had the first such uranium shipment.

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Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Simon Gunson 03/12/2006 11:40AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Peter Ladd 03/12/2006 05:33PM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Vince 03/12/2006 10:58PM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? BrianV 03/12/2006 11:48PM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Simon Gunson 03/13/2006 03:47AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Manfred 03/13/2006 04:42AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Simon Gunson 03/13/2006 11:11AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Paul 03/13/2006 05:18PM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Simon Gunson 03/14/2006 08:56AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Paul 03/14/2006 04:08PM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Capt Ken 03/20/2006 07:26PM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? paul 03/20/2006 11:28PM
Re: Italian sub/oleary incedent Capt Ken 03/22/2006 01:10AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? JR 03/14/2006 05:31PM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? JR 03/14/2006 05:22PM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Simon Gunson 03/19/2006 12:38AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Simon Gunson 03/19/2006 10:31AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? paul 03/21/2006 01:24AM
Re: Italian subs and nuclear cargo? Simon Gunson 03/27/2006 11:06AM
Re: Italian subs and nuclear cargo? Paul 03/27/2006 03:53PM
Re: Italian subs and nuclear cargo? Simon Gunson 03/28/2006 06:43AM
Re: Italian subs and nuclear cargo? Paul 03/28/2006 03:30PM
Re: Italian subs and nuclear cargo? Simon Gunson 03/29/2006 05:14AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Riccardo Celi 01/30/2012 12:16AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Paul 03/29/2006 04:57PM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Simon Gunson 04/03/2006 06:42AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Paul 04/03/2006 02:37PM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? paul 04/04/2006 04:07AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Simon Gunson 04/04/2006 09:46AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? Simon Gunson 04/04/2006 09:24AM
Re: Italian sub at Portland Maine ??? John Layte 01/28/2012 07:23PM


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