U-534 GERMAN/KRIEGSMARINE U BOAT RAISED. BIRKENHEAD UK. Awesome PICS

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U-534 GERMAN/KRIEGSMARINE U BOAT RAISED. BIRKENHEAD UK. Awesome PICS.
This is the U-534 , raised from the depths recently and now on display in the UK, see below
Incidents leading to sinking
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U-534
under attack by an RAF
Liberator
, from
86 Squadron
On 5 May 1945, the
U-534
was 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north of the 56th parallel, and Nollau decided to form a convoy with two
Type XXI
U-boats, the
U-3523
and
U-3503
, and continue sailing north on the surface of the
Kattegat
sea in an area too shallow for crash diving, when two British RAF
Liberator
aircraft attacked (G/86 George from
Tain
and E/547 Edward from
Leuchars
). The crew managed to shoot one bomber down, and nine
depth charges
from the bombing runs missed, but then the boat received a direct hit by a depth charge from G/86. The
U-534
began to take on water as a result of the damage to her aft section by the engine rooms, and sank north-east of Anholt. The shot-down Liberator crashed 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) away, and all on board the plane were lost.
The
U-534
had aboard a crew of 52 men; all escaped the sub, and 49 survived to be rescued. Five were trapped in the torpedo room as she began to sink, but they managed to escape through the torpedo loading hatch once the boat had settled on the sea bed. They planned their escape the way that they had been trained, exiting through the forward torpedo hatch once the
U-534
had settled on the seabed and swimming to the surface from a depth of 67 metres (220 ft). One of them, 17-year-old radio operator, Josef Neudorfer, failed to exhale as he was surfacing and died from damage to his lungs. The two others (including their
Argentine
radio operator) died of exposure while in the water.
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Transported to
Birkenhead
, England, in 1996, the vessel formed part of the
Warship Preservation Trust
's collection at
Birkenhead Docks
until the museum closed on 5 February 2006. On 27 June 2007, the
Merseytravel
transit authority announced that it had acquired the submarine to display at the
Woodside Ferry Terminal
.
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For technical reasons and to facilitate economical transportation to its new site, the vessel was cut into five sections, two of which were subsequently re-joined. It is now displayed in sectioned form to allow visitors better visibility without entering the U-boat.
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Merseytravel said that preserving the hull intact would have created prohibitive transport costs.
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Engineers began a month-long operation to divide the
U-534
, using a diamond wire cutter, on 6 February 2008. On 10 March 2008, the sections, each weighing as much as 240 tonnes, were transported over several days by
floating crane
.
The U-boat Story exhibition opened on 10 February 2009.
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