| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | SSBN1 |
| Fate: | Paid off May 1992 after completing 56 deterrent patrols and laid up at Rosyth. |
Launched by Lady Law, wife of the Controller of the Navy, Vice Admiral Sir Horace Law.
Fired her first Polaris missile in June 1970 and undertook her first operational patrol the following September.
Received her Chevaline update in 1988.
| 00-05-1965 | Laid Down |
| 15-03-1968 | Launched |
| 04-12-1969 | Completed |
| 19-04-1975 | Recommissioned at HM Naval Base Rosyth |
| 04-09-1982 | Recommissioned a second time at HM Naval Base Rosyth |
| Length overall | 425 ft |
| Beam | 33 ft |
| Displacement | 7500 tons (surface) |
| 8400 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | In excess of 1000 ft |
| Speed | 20 knots (surface) / 25 knots (submerged) |
| 25 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 16 x Polaris A-3 tubes | |
| Complement | 143 (two crews) |
For the last ten years, teams of divers have scoured waters off the North East and Yorkshire Coast looking for the last few missing German U-Boats from World War One.
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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| Length overall | 425 ft |
| Beam | 33 ft |
| Displacement | 7500 tons (surface) |
| 8400 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | In excess of 1000 ft |
| Speed | 20 knots (surface) / 25 knots (submerged) |
| 25 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 16 x Polaris A-3 tubes | |
| Complement | 143 (two crews) |
For the last ten years, teams of divers have scoured waters off the North East and Yorkshire Coast looking for the last few missing German U-Boats from World War One.
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,
17 pages added or updated in the last 4 month
Please help to maintain this site by reporting any Errors, Broken Links, Information or Site Issues on this page using this button
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