Submarine Pen Roof Gun

Been here twice now.

Submarine pen roof gun.

Pens 9 through 14 are simple docks 62 metres long and 17 metres wide each holding two submarines. All reviews world war u boat lock roof monument operation pens basin submarine waterfront raid chariot. Jvlvsf78 cc by sa 3 0. Totally blown away by the size of this place.

Xiiifromtokyo cc by 3 0. Entries of the submarines pens of keroman iii viewed from the harbor and at the bottom left keroman i photo. Nds built to construct german u boats during world war ii the factory was under construction from 1943 to march 1945 using forced labour but was damaged by air raids and unfinished by the end of the war. Climb up and head down the duct until you arrive at the submarine pen.

Drop out of the duct and walk through the building and all. Fraddon united kingdom 29 contributions 11 helpful votes. The base offers 14 submarine pens. Three u boats in a submarine pen at trondheim 19 may 1945.

Pens 1 through 8 are dry docks 92 metres long and 11 metres wide. The roof above is filled with anti aircraft weaponry machine guns and mortars. Keroman i and keroman iii lorient. Post by damper 06 oct 2019 17 24 obviously early in the war moving capital ships within a few miles of the coast would have ended badly.

Adrian r wrote a review mar 2020. A submarine pen u boot bunker in german is a type of submarine base that acts as a bunker to protect submarines from air attack. An raf raid on the capital in 1940 plus the occupation of france and great britain s refusal to surrender was enough to trigger a massive building programme of submarine pens and air raid shelters. The lock is 155 meter long 25 meter wide and 14 meter high.

Well worth a visit. By the autumn of 1940 construction of the elbe ii bunker in hamburg and nordsee iii on the island of heligoland was under way. Entrance to submarine pen on croatia. What a brilliant place.

Unfinished german submarine pen at cherbourg. Roof of the u boat base in saint nazaire. In this area be careful to avoid any guards pulling the alarm. The valentin submarine factory is a protective shelter on the weser river at the bremen suburb of rekum de.

The term is generally applied to submarine bases constructed during world war ii particularly in germany and its occupied countries which were also known as u boat pens after the phrase u boat to refer to german submarines. The roof is dotted with anti aircraft weaponry machine guns and mortars.