Save a submarine.

Posted by: BigH47 on 29 September 2007

Don't know if anyone is interested in this. One of the very last submarine types of WW2. It is about to be cut up for scrap.

Article and petition here.
Posted on: 29 September 2007 by JWM
I'm sorry, but reading both your link page, and a further link from that to a BBC report, I can't see that U-534 is about to be scrapped (rendered for the metal).

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The BBC Report says:

The boat will be cut into three sections so a floating crane can take it to its new site across the water.

The submarine was sunk during the war when, on her way to Norway, she was attacked by an RAF Liberator aircraft in 1945.

The vessel took heavy damage and began to sink by the stern.

Forty-nine of the 52 crew members survived, including five who escaped via a torpedo hatch as the submarine lay on the sea bed.

At Woodside huge glass panels installed over the end of each section will allow visitors to see inside the submarine from specially-built viewing platforms.

It is thought work will start to move the vessel in September.
Posted on: 29 September 2007 by BigH47
The report I had passed to me was that it would probably not return from the scrap yard. I think the petition is a) trying to prevent it being cut up and b) trying to find a benefactor by the publicity.
It managed to get TO Liverpool in ONE piece I fail to see why it can't leave the same way.

Howard