Glance into the heart of a WWI German U-boat

**MAP** · 04-23-2015, 08:05 PM

Just a few photos but interesting. Wouldn't want to be in one of these underwater....ever...

A rare glance into the heart of a WWI German U-boat - Business Insider

Regards,

Michael

**harryamb2** · 04-23-2015, 08:16 PM

thank you Micheal,love U-Boat stuff.

**MAP** · 04-23-2015, 08:19 PM

My pleasure Harry. I like looking but not "being"...

**fallbarbarossa** · 04-23-2015, 08:28 PM

so.many.valves.

**MAP** · 04-23-2015, 08:34 PM

by fallbarbarossa

so.many.valves.

Imaging being depth charged, minimal lighting, water spraying in from stress fractures of the hull and trying to remember which one you needed to turn.....

**fallbarbarossa** · 04-24-2015, 06:22 AM

by MAP

Imaging being depth charged, minimal lighting, water spraying in from stress fractures of the hull and trying to remember which one you needed to turn.....

Yea, thanks but I'd join the infantry and request the Eastern Front instead.

**Wagriff** · 04-24-2015, 07:25 AM

Took alot of guts to go to sea in one of these things-3 out of 4 never came back. But there was Never a lack of volunteers for them-right up until the very end.

**duska** · 04-24-2015, 01:23 PM

by Wagriff

Took alot of guts to go to sea in one of these things-3 out of 4 never came back. But there was Never a lack of volunteers for them-right up until the very end.

That is the exact fate of the U boat in the photos, SM UB-110 was only commissioned on the 23rd March 1918 and sunk on the 19th July 1918 with the loss of 23 men.

**timpe** · 04-24-2015, 03:04 PM

"More hand wheels" LOL

**fallbarbarossa** · 04-24-2015, 04:45 PM

by Wagriff

Took alot of guts to go to sea in one of these things-3 out of 4 never came back. But there was Never a lack of volunteers for them-right up until the very end.

I thought the 3/4 thing was attributed to WWII? As in 30.000 of the 40.000 German U-boat men never came back. At least that's what the intro to Das Boot told me.