Folks, it seems the mystery is solved! It's an inflatable life raft container. It was apparently attached to the outside of the U-boat. While I'm...
Worth mentioning that the best theory I’ve heard so far was from a modern-day German Navy sailor on Reddit who said it looked like the latching...
Roger. Thank you! A much more edifying response than “nO iT dOeSnT”.
Yes, it does.
yea, the prong has been at the top of my mental list of reasons it's not a DC. but I didn't have enough visual references of DCs to rule it out....
okay now this is some good info! I was surprised how little information I could find on the topic of depth charges via Google. There’s plenty of...
Funny it reminds me either of a spot light or a compass with cover. I thought that, too... Judging the size/scale is the problem It's hard for...
Yes, but...I'm not sure what a depth charge looks like after detonation. Presumably most/all of the "drum" part is blown away when it goes off....
the Mark VII was the primary depth charge in use by the United States when the U-352 was sunk, so it was most likely Mk VIIs used to attack the...
I'm a U-boat history enthusiast and avid diver. Recently (finally) I was able to dive the U-352 wreck off North Carolina, USA. During my dive, I...
