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U-196 found off New Zealand ?
Posted by:
Simon Gunson. NZ
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Date: November 06, 2008 01:49AM
There was a report recently in a New Zealand newspaper that the curator of a maritime museum may have found a U-boat.
[www.northernadvocate.co.nz]
Extract from article:
'The possible discovery of a sunken German U-boat, which supposedly carried secret passengers and a large amount of Nazi loot to a Northland shoreline, has excited a group of divers and shipwreck explorers.
Dargaville's Noel Hilliam, president of the New Zealand Underwater Heritage Group, which had its second annual meeting at Labour Weekend, believes the submarine, U196, lies in a watery grave off the west coast of the Kaipara.
He said that, in 1944, U196 dropped off 13 high-ranking Nazis and three children. Met on the beach, two trucks helped them transport the booty. According to three descendants of this group, the Nazis, helped by collaborators, passed themselves off as Austrians in Northland."
[www.northernadvocate.co.nz]
Extract from article:
'The possible discovery of a sunken German U-boat, which supposedly carried secret passengers and a large amount of Nazi loot to a Northland shoreline, has excited a group of divers and shipwreck explorers.
Dargaville's Noel Hilliam, president of the New Zealand Underwater Heritage Group, which had its second annual meeting at Labour Weekend, believes the submarine, U196, lies in a watery grave off the west coast of the Kaipara.
He said that, in 1944, U196 dropped off 13 high-ranking Nazis and three children. Met on the beach, two trucks helped them transport the booty. According to three descendants of this group, the Nazis, helped by collaborators, passed themselves off as Austrians in Northland."
U-196 found off New Zealand ?