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H I Sutton - Covert Shores

This photo from 1943 shows the mass production of U-boot on a german shipyard. For minimizing the damage caused by aerial attacks, the parts of these submarines were produced in separated and distant places, to be later transported to the shipyards where the submarines could be then quickly assembled and equipped.

Submarines size comparison. Largest submarines in the world.

When it was launched in 1929, the French cruiser submarine FS Surcouf was without parallel in the World, and remained the largest and most heavily armed until the final years of World War II. The concept of a cruiser submarine was influenced by the German Navy’s U-boat warfare of World War I. Planners envisioned a submarine which roam the ocean, far away from port, picking off enemy merchant ships. On 2 February 1942 she departed Halifax. She was last reported on the night of 18/19 February…

Hunter of the sea...a submerging German U-Boat, type (unk) @ (google.image) 10.2020

What could go wrong?

You certainly have heard of the Type VIIC and the Type IX which roamed the seas during WW2 and almost strangled seaways to UK in 1942-43. But over 1,100 U-Boats has been built during this war, mostly deployed in the Atlantic and over twenty-four types designed, many if which were left as paper projects...