this is similiar to what I have posted before but since the crash last night most of Atlantic forum is long gone........I hope not ! ok a short but concise history of this Schnellboote can be found here. www.bmpt.org.uk/boats/S130/index.htm
Cool site. I was trying to post a better reply before but, Mother Nature decided to send a Lightning Bolt and hit the library knocking out power a few seconds.
LM, yes I had posted the same link earlier and now it is somewhere in cyberspace but maybe not and protected in it's own little cubicule for safe keeping. We await our fearless web-masters return !
Last of its kind, deadly Nazi E-boat rises again - D-Day: 65 Years Later- msnbc.com MILLBROOK, England - In a nondescript shed in a English seaside village, the remains of a Nazi torpedo boat behind one of worst U.S. catastrophes in World War II rests on cradle of lumber. And almost 65 years to the day after this German vessel played its part in a D-Day dress rehearsal gone wrong that ended with 749 Americans servicemen dead, three survivors of the Exercise Tiger disaster garner their first glimpse of E-boat S130. The last-known remaining craft of its type was bought about two years ago by British military vehicle collector Kevin Wheatcroft for 1 pound (about $1.60). He is now planning to spend about five million pounds ($8 million) to return the boat to its original condition. Nathan Resnick, 85, a motor machinist's mate 2nd class aboard landing craft LST 511 during Exercise Tiger, said his visit left no doubt that S130 had been "really lethal." "The E-boat could go 40 knots, we could only go 12 or 13 knots," said Resnick, of Van Nuys, Calif. "It was really a mismatch." Owles, a former fisherman and merchant mariner, admitted he wasn't sure how the American ex-servicemen would react when confronted with a vessel that had been responsible for the deaths of so many colleagues. "The guys just seemed overawed by it," he said. "They were crawling all over it. One of the veterans said, 'I'll be 90 in 5 years' time and I want a ride.' "
