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Captured German Mine - layer (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 2 older comments, and then…
• Galilla S said:

  I wonder what those 3 long things are in the background there on the left.

• B-59 said:

  The Sunday Oregonian July 22, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Image 59 printed this photo with the caption: "The Germans have asserted that the stories told by the British of captured submarines are exaggerated. Many are being captured, however, some of them minelayers. They are probably taken In nets which the British spread for submarines, but as to this fact the au thorities are silent." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1917-07-22/ed-1/se...

• Galilla S said:

  B-59 Thanks B-59, but still has me wondering what those three things are. What a great history resource that oregonnews is! They look almost like giant straps or searchlights but I don't think it's either of those.

• B-59 said:

  Galilla S The stripes are perhaps a developing failure, but they are not really explainable to me. The UC5 has a wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UC-5 The submarine was captured in April 1916 already, after it had run aground. See also - www.harwichanddovercourt.com/uc5-capture.html - nygeschichte.blogspot.com/2009/10/german-submarine-im-cen... (in German) - www.navsource.org/archives/08/08465.htm

• B-59 said:

  The same photo was published in the New-York tribune., July 15, 1917, Page 8, Image 50, without the stripes chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1917-07-15/ed-...