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petronius

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3. That would be quite a mystery! I guess you mean this one in the Churchill River?

Reply to applegrove (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 27, 2012, 06:52 PM

Jul 2012

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/07/25/nl-u-boat-labrador-discovery-725.html

Looks pretty far from certain to me, and with no record of an attack it's hard to imagine what sort of accident could sink a sub in a deep river with no one noticing (unless the area was mined?) - but the idea of a defecting crew scuttling a boat and then melting into the Canadian population is kind of romantic...

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They think they found a Uboat up a river in Newfoundland too. applegrove Jul 2012 #1

That would be quite a mystery! I guess you mean this one in the Churchill River? petronius Jul 2012 #3

Quite a mystery indeed sarisataka Jul 2012 #5

Fascinating! I'd love to dive a u-boat wreck some day, but when they say "deep" petronius Jul 2012 #2

There was a book about Uboat wrecks in the atlantic off North America. Was really interesting. Don't applegrove Jul 2012 #4