Submarine Pen Roof Gun

The valentin submarine factory is a protective shelter on the weser river at the bremen suburb of rekum de.

Submarine pen roof gun.

Climb up and head down the duct until you arrive at the submarine pen. The roof is dotted with anti aircraft weaponry machine guns and mortars. Unfinished german submarine pen at cherbourg. An raf raid on the capital in 1940 plus the occupation of france and great britain s refusal to surrender was enough to trigger a massive building programme of submarine pens and air raid shelters.

Roof of the u boat base in saint nazaire. Later between 1943 and early 1944 a fortified lock was built to protect submarines during their transfer from the loire river and the pens. The lock is 155 meter long 25 meter wide and 14 meter high. Pens 1 through 8 are dry docks 92 metres long and 11 metres wide.

The base offers 14 submarine pens. Adrian r wrote a review mar 2020. Pens 9 through 14 are simple docks 62 metres long and 17 metres wide each holding two submarines. Well worth a visit.

The roof above is filled with anti aircraft weaponry machine guns and mortars. Entrance to submarine pen on croatia. Did the british ever consider bombarding u boat pens with naval gun fire. Been here twice now.

Keroman i and keroman iii lorient. A submarine pen u boot bunker in german is a type of submarine base that acts as a bunker to protect submarines from air attack. Fraddon united kingdom 29 contributions 11 helpful votes. Drop out of the duct and walk through the building and all.

What a brilliant place. Xiiifromtokyo cc by 3 0. Submarine pen at bordeaux roof of the u boat base in saint nazaire. By the autumn of 1940 construction of the elbe ii bunker in hamburg and nordsee iii on the island of heligoland was under way.

Three u boats in a submarine pen at trondheim 19 may 1945. Jvlvsf78 cc by sa 3 0. The term is generally applied to submarine bases constructed during world war ii particularly in germany and its occupied countries which were also known as u boat pens after the phrase u boat to refer to german submarines. In this area be careful to avoid any guards pulling the alarm.

Entries of the submarines pens of keroman iii viewed from the harbor and at the bottom left keroman i photo. Nds built to construct german u boats during world war ii the factory was under construction from 1943 to march 1945 using forced labour but was damaged by air raids and unfinished by the end of the war.