u boat submarine pens
The base offers 14 submarine pens. pens 1 through 8 are dry docks, 92 metres long and 11 metres wide; pens 9 through 14 are simple docks, 62 metres long and 17 metres wide, each holding two submarines.. between pens 5 and 6, and 12 and 13, are two areas giving access to the upper levels of the base.. By 1942 the pens could hold 13 u-boats. with a complicated series of locks, underwater pens could be drained, and the submarines hauled up by crane to workshops.. Lorient u-boat base. after the fall of france in june 1940 the head of germany’s u-boat arm, konteradmiral karl d
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