| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | Scrapped in July 1971 at Inverkeithing. |
| 1946: | Lieutenant | John Evelyn Moore |
| 31-05-1944 | Laid Down |
| 18-02-1946 | Launched |
| 11-12-1946 | Completed |
| 24-06-1971 | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 24 June 1971. Scrapped at Inverkeithing |
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Oct, 1945 | |
| Motto | The thicker the hay, the easier mowed. | |
| Symbology | Alaric was the king of the Visigoths who ravaged Rome in 1410. | |
| Design Notes | A sword with a white pommel and hilt of gold surmounted by two white scythes in saltire, on a black background. | |
| Additional Notes | The Badge and the motto have their origin in a saying by Alaric when the strength of the opposition was pointed out to him: "The thicker the hay, the easier cut." | |
| Length overall | 280 ft 6in |
| Beam | 22 ft |
| Depth | 16ft |
| Displacement | 1385 tons (surface) |
| 1620 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 18.5 knots (design) |
| Submarged 8 knots (design) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes (2 external) |
| 4 x 21 inch stern tubes (2 external) | |
| 20 torpedoes carried | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| 1 x 20mm Qerlikon cannon | |
| 3 x 0.303in machine-guns | |
| Endurance | Surface: 10 500 miles at 11 knots (design) |
| Submerged: 16 miles at 8 knots or 90 miles at 3 knots | |
| Complement | 6 Officers and 55 Ratings. |
| 6 Officers and 58 Ratings after modernisation. |
Seraph (P 219) |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | S3 |
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Fate: Sold and scrapped, Briton Ferry, 20th December 1965. |
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Autumn 1941: U96 departs for enemy flight in La Rochelle, France. In the steel belly of the submarine, 50 men crowd close, among them the young Lieutenant Werner, who came on board as a war correspondent. What begins as a quiet routine company soon turns into hell after the first shelling.
Trapped between fire and water, between fear and despair, between life and death, the team of the U96 experiences up close the destructive cruelty of the beast war. He's gonna change them all. If they survive it.
You don't have to say many words about “Das Boot” anymore: Wolfgang Petersen's dramatic film adaptation of Lothar Günther Buchheim's success novel was the first true blockbuster in German cinema history. “Das Boot” made his director an international star and his largely unknown actors into familiar faces. “Das Boot” was celebrated worldwide and was nominated for the Oscar six times.
Four years later, the six-part TV series was released, which takes an even more detailed and unobstructed look at the crew and their experiences on board the U96. In 1997, the director's cut was released in terms of cut, image and sound. Intensive atmosphere and nerve-scattering tension created a milestone in German film and television history!
Disc 1 The Boat - Director's Cut (Blu-ray)
Disc 2 The Boat - Cinema (Blu-ray)
Disc 3-4 The Boat - TV Series (Blu-ray) Disc 5 Bonus Material (Blu-ray)
Disc 6 Soundtrack (Audio CD)
Disc 7-8 Audiobook (MP3 CD) Bonus Material:Original Soundtrack, Audiobook to the novel, read by Dietmar Baer,
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Oct, 1945 | |
| Motto | The thicker the hay, the easier mowed. | |
| Symbology | Alaric was the king of the Visigoths who ravaged Rome in 1410. | |
| Design Notes | A sword with a white pommel and hilt of gold surmounted by two white scythes in saltire, on a black background. | |
| Additional Notes | The Badge and the motto have their origin in a saying by Alaric when the strength of the opposition was pointed out to him: "The thicker the hay, the easier cut." | |
| Length overall | 280 ft 6in |
| Beam | 22 ft |
| Depth | 16ft |
| Displacement | 1385 tons (surface) |
| 1620 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 350 ft |
| Speed | Surface 18.5 knots (design) |
| Submarged 8 knots (design) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes (2 external) |
| 4 x 21 inch stern tubes (2 external) | |
| 20 torpedoes carried | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| 1 x 20mm Qerlikon cannon | |
| 3 x 0.303in machine-guns | |
| Endurance | Surface: 10 500 miles at 11 knots (design) |
| Submerged: 16 miles at 8 knots or 90 miles at 3 knots | |
| Complement | 6 Officers and 55 Ratings. |
| 6 Officers and 58 Ratings after modernisation. |
Seraph (P 219) |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | S3 |
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Fate: Sold and scrapped, Briton Ferry, 20th December 1965. |
|
Autumn 1941: U96 departs for enemy flight in La Rochelle, France. In the steel belly of the submarine, 50 men crowd close, among them the young Lieutenant Werner, who came on board as a war correspondent. What begins as a quiet routine company soon turns into hell after the first shelling.
Trapped between fire and water, between fear and despair, between life and death, the team of the U96 experiences up close the destructive cruelty of the beast war. He's gonna change them all. If they survive it.
You don't have to say many words about “Das Boot” anymore: Wolfgang Petersen's dramatic film adaptation of Lothar Günther Buchheim's success novel was the first true blockbuster in German cinema history. “Das Boot” made his director an international star and his largely unknown actors into familiar faces. “Das Boot” was celebrated worldwide and was nominated for the Oscar six times.
Four years later, the six-part TV series was released, which takes an even more detailed and unobstructed look at the crew and their experiences on board the U96. In 1997, the director's cut was released in terms of cut, image and sound. Intensive atmosphere and nerve-scattering tension created a milestone in German film and television history!
Disc 1 The Boat - Director's Cut (Blu-ray)
Disc 2 The Boat - Cinema (Blu-ray)
Disc 3-4 The Boat - TV Series (Blu-ray) Disc 5 Bonus Material (Blu-ray)
Disc 6 Soundtrack (Audio CD)
Disc 7-8 Audiobook (MP3 CD) Bonus Material:Original Soundtrack, Audiobook to the novel, read by Dietmar Baer,
20 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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Thankyou for your support.
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