The Missus and me took the Grandson for a day out to Liverpool yesterday, we decided to get the ferry across to the U boat museum. On arrival you go into an indoor display which tells you the history and time line of the U 534 and there are quite a few items on display recovered from the wreck.
The main part of the museum is the U boat it's self which to be quite honest has been butchered by chopping it into pieces, why the hell they couldn't leave it whole and cut viewing ports into the sides is beyond me.
You do get an idea of how claustrophobic it was to live on a U boot, watching das Boot makes a U boat look more spacious than it really was, even the bigger areas like the control room really are tiny.
It must have cost an absolute fortune to recover U 534, but now the thing is literally falling apart before your eyes, a gust of wind ripped off a rusty lump of outer hull as i watched. You would think there would be more effort made to preserve the wreck, i reckon in about 10 years there will only be the inner pressure hull left.
On the plus side though the Grandson loved it!...
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