Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Possible German Mini sub found in the Foyle??

Options

Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    They've slapped a preservation order on the area to prohibit diving until the matter is investigated.

    It's a potential war grave site - in which case I'd say she'll be staying where she is.

    More on it here

    http://www.derryjournal.com/news/local/is-this-the-foyle-s-mystery-submarine-1-3730070


  • Options
    #3
    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Looks like it was a geman "mini-sub" that was scuttled there, with the larger subs scuttled out to sea.


  • Options
    #4
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Sadly the 'derryjournal' article contains incorrect information - it states that 'Anybody wishing to see a wartime X craft would have to visit our museum which is home to HMS X-24, the only surviving wartime example of the class.'

    There is in fact another at the IWM Duxford - X-51 has been on display there for many years, cut in half so that the visitor can walk between the bow and after-part sections, and another at HMS Dolphin in Gosport - X-24.

    tac


  • Options
    #5
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    It's being reported on the RTE website that nothing has been found - the sonar picture that caused such excitement is being described as a '' sonic illusion '' , whatever its called it would not seem to be a craft of any description.
    Disappointing..........


  • Options
    #6
    thorbarry
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭thorbarry


    Delancey wrote: »
    It's being reported on the RTE website that nothing has been found - the sonar picture that caused such excitement is being described as a '' sonic illusion '' , whatever its called it would not seem to be a craft of any description.
    Disappointing..........

    Sounds like a cover up to me


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    thorbarry wrote: »
    Sounds like a cover up to me

    Do you think its a UFO ? :D


  • Options
    #8
    thorbarry
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭thorbarry


    Delancey wrote: »
    Do you think its a UFO ? :D

    Maybe it was a British sub that was found to be spying on the US base that was in Derry


  • Options
    #9
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    thorbarry wrote: »
    Maybe it was a British sub that was found to be spying on the US base that was in Derry

    Why on earth would the British use a mini-sub to spy on US ships berthed in a ' British ' port ? Taking photos from the quayside might be a tad easier........


Advertisement