Rdered on April 2nd, 1942, then commissioned on March 16th, 1944, the German U16 was one of the last German Uboats to be sunk The time was the mid70s, just off the coast of Scotland, workersU16, a Type VIIC submarine, was officially ordered on April 2, 1942 and ultimately launched on December 30, 1943 About a year and a half later, On April 6, 1945, the shiny new craft with its crew of 50 men departed from Kristiansand, Norway on its first nontraining patrol machineThe German Uboat occupies a very dark chapter in history Between World War I and World War II they were feared, a legitimate danger to practically any vessel plying through the Atlantic Ocean Less a true submarine than a boat that could submerge when needed, the Uboats would run a diesel engine when surfaced and run electrically off of a
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