Message no. 1

From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject:	[OT] Re: using a ship as a Base of operations was RE: Hello...
Date:	Thu Aug 22 05:55:25 2002

According to John Colvard, on Thu, 22 Aug 2002 the word on the street was...

> Back in WWII german U-boats made it all the way from their home ports in
> the Netherlands and Germany across the atlantic and up and down the coast
> of North America and into the carribean.

On the surface. German WWII submarines, to the best of my knowledge
(admittedly, a fair amount of that comes from watching Das Boot :) they
were basically submersible torpedoboats rather than true submarines.
Underwater speed was pretty low as a result. It was probably better when
snorkling to use diesels, but IIRC that feature was only introduced late in
the war, and snorkels showed up on Allied radar screens...

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