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Re: U-boat Celestial Navigation WWII
From: Stan K
Date: 2016 Jan 8, 20:43 -0500
From: Stan K
Date: 2016 Jan 8, 20:43 -0500
I dove on the U-853, the last u-boat sunk in WWII. You definitely see more on a museum u-boat.
I've also been on the Black Point, the last ship sunk by the U-853. The gun turret still could be moved by crank, probably because the ship is in fairly shallow water and the gun gets a lot of use by divers. But this was many years ago.
Stan
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From: Gary LaPook <NoReply_LaPook@fer3.com>
To: slk1000 <slk1000@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 8, 2016 5:16 pm
Subject: [NavList] Re: U-boat Celestial Navigation WWII
From: Gary LaPook <NoReply_LaPook@fer3.com>
To: slk1000 <slk1000@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 8, 2016 5:16 pm
Subject: [NavList] Re: U-boat Celestial Navigation WWII
Way cool reading the logbook. I grew up in Chicago and have been aboard U-505 at least 20 times, most recently just two years ago. It is a unique resource and anybody going near Chicago shouldn't miss it. Go early in the day, tickets sell out early, I missed out last July by getting to the museum to late. U-505 is a type IX large sub captured on the high seas in 1944.
Gl
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:39, Alan S<NoReply_AlanS@fer3.com> wrote:Gary:Some years back, I became acquainted with a retired U.S. Naval Officer. Earlier in his career, he had been a navigation officer in surface vessels, this was post WW2. He later switched to submarines and commanded one, I believe it was a diesel-electric, not nuke type. In any event, re navigation of submaines, he stated the following.There was a sextant mounted on one of his boat's periscopes, I believe it was a flexible mount. When positioned for shooting, they could shoot a 3 body fix, star fix as I recall, in a couple of minutes, atmospheric conditions permitting, this while submerged.Alan
