Lost WWII German Sub May Have Just Been Discovered

I just came across the same from the local new outlet.  I guess it takes awhile to report this stuff in Ontario.

Will be exciting if its true.

That could just as easily be a fishing boat.  It's pretty intact, and I'd expect it to have laid over on it's side after all these years.  But that's just me.

Gene Beaird,

Pearland, Texas

I thought the U-Boat image looked familiar.

http://uboat.net/types/ixc.htm

Even with the overlay,I just don't see it.

very interesting.. wish the pics were betterer...

Wow - thanks for posting!

OK guys, here's the latest news report and this time with video and overlay of a U-Boat drawing over the sidescan sonar image:

www.cbc.ca/.../nl-u-boat-labrador-discovery-725.html

Also, of interest is a fictional novel written in 1992 about a sunk German sub......you guessed it.....sunk in Churchill River.  Apparently this rumour goes back to WW2 days when people living on the Churchill River claimed to have heard the sound of diesel engines that they said were from a submarine.

The novel was written in 1992 by a gentleman named Walter Sellars and titled Hard Aground published by Breakwater Books.  He claims it was a fictional story based on actual facts.  I just hope that the divers go in and actually see if it is really a U-Boat.

RODC

Thanks for posting,hopefully we'll get some good updates on this.

That image just sucks.I just don't see anything that resembles anything.

Here's another news story and a sidescan sonar image......you really need to use your powers of imagination to see a sub!  I don't see no sub....

www.cbc.ca/.../nl-u-boat-labrador-discovery-725.html

Interesting point bondoman.  There was, and still is, a very large airbase at Goose Bay at the mouth of the Churchill River that was quite active during the Cold War with respect to low level flight training for NATO allies.  The topography of this region of Labrador was very similar to that of Eastern Europe and so why it was such a popular flight training area.

Whether German or Russian (I am leaning towards German however) it is going to be an interesting find if indeed true.  I will post any additional info once it becomes available.  Of course, if it exists, it will be declared a war grave and little will be done to examine the wreck which in my opinion is probably deeply buried in river silt anyway!

RODC

It could also be a Russkie, ehh?

Discoveries like this always excites ship modellers. I hope we can find out what type it is.

Very interesting.Thanks for posting.

Interesting report.  History has a way of coming back.