Photos that make you think.

[Ian525]

Condoms to secret documents: Nazi U-boat items to go on display for first time

Exclusive: Liverpool exhibitors hope documents from sunken submarine may hold clues to end of regime

www.theguardian.com

Secrets of the Last U-boat – Western Approaches

liverpoolwarmuseum.co.uk

When we visited in the mid 90's when it was first put on exhibition (1996) the uniforms and documents were all known. Documents were being conserved (so that pages could be seperated) so maybe that conservation process is now coming to an end and more information is available? (Just realised it was over 25 years ago when I visited!!!)

 

[solomon88]

Odd that this stuff has remained untouched since 1994.

Par for the course that they managed to get some self pity whining into the article and a good dose of scrounging....

I'm not surprised, it happens all the time. Projects started by a small group of well-meaning enthusiasts without the resources or nous to make it work long term. No money for proper conservation and archiving. At least here the stuff has been saved.

 

[CaptainRidiculous]

I'm not surprised, it happens all the time. Projects started by a small group of well-meaning enthusiasts without the resources or nous to make it work long term. No money for proper conservation and archiving. At least here the stuff has been saved.

whole gallery here.

Nazi U-boat artefacts to go on display in Liverpool – in pictures

A trove of extraordinarily well preserved Nazi artefacts, recovered from a sunken U-boat in the 1990s after nearly 50 years at the bottom of the ocean, is to go on public display in Liverpool for the first time.

www.theguardian.com

 

[JuniorBod]

SS Northumbria was the largest of the supertankers built on the Tyne over that period, I remember with not a small amount of envy my older brother being one of the spawny twats being given a day off school to go and watch her launch

Twas the ESSO Northumbria launched in 1969, I was another spawny twat off school and at the launch...

JB

 

[JuniorBod]

1950, I was in the process of being born - in Singapore!

Then your not that much of an Auld-Yin...

Mind, you may have had a hard paper round or three...

JB

 

[Mech_Eng]

launched in 1969,

So was I

 

[bedended]

Re the RN-related dits previous, this date in 1970 shall forever be enshrined as “Black Tot Day”, Vale the Pusser’s relief! View attachment 681874

Good job we hail all Ancient Clerics t’morra!

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Morning @PuriPuriManTumas,
Old Monk=

 

[ericferret]

launched in 1969,

So was I

Just for a moment I had this image of you going down the slipway.
Appropriate on this occasion.
I have regained mind control and deleted the afore mentioned image.

 

[PuriPuriManTumas]

Morning @PuriPuriManTumas,
Old Monk=

Aah, to each his own … I quite enjoy a chhota, or several, especially with a touch of ice, but never to excess; a far better tipple than the Antipodean (Bundaberg) Lunatic Soup so beloved of my countrymen.

 

[syrup]

When your so knackered you sit on your grenades and hold your helmet

 

[brownhat]

whole gallery here.

Nazi U-boat artefacts to go on display in Liverpool – in pictures

A trove of extraordinarily well preserved Nazi artefacts, recovered from a sunken U-boat in the 1990s after nearly 50 years at the bottom of the ocean, is to go on public display in Liverpool for the first time.

www.theguardian.com

Worth a visit, although it is in 3 units for easier access

 

[Bodenplatte]

When your so knackered you sit on your grenades and hold your helmet

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When constipation desperation becomes really serious.

 

[7gunner]

1950, I was in the process of being born - in Singapore!

I have seen the Penguin Parade though, in the zoo. Put the Woodentops to shame

Whippersnapper!

 

[Bodenplatte]

When your so knackered you sit on your grenades and hold your helmet

View attachment 683701

When Schutze Helmut told the feldwebel what he could do with his bloody grenades, nobody expected him to take it seriously.

 

[ericferret]

If they go off he might well end up with his helmet in his hand.

 

[Dan Gleebles]

When your so knackered you sit on your grenades and hold your helmet

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The RAF Regt mortars beat up course was no laughing matter.

 

[Auld-Yin]

Whippersnapper!

Indeed, just a chico.

 

[single malt]

Indeed, just a chico.

Aye 1950 was a good year

 

[Auld-Yin]

Aye 1950 was a good year

An excellent vintage with complex but good body.

 

[single malt]

An excellent vintage with complex but good body.

And a lasting finish and aroma