Which submarine was used in the movie Das Boot?

No problem……….I agree it is an excellent website.

That is a very nice U boat site. I’ll send the link to my father who is a big U-boat fan. Nice one whalebone!

Stieglitz

This a great website for all things U boat, the amount of detail is incredible, it even has an ‘on this day’ rolling dairy of u boats lanched, attacked, lost, crew fates, allied ships attacked etc. it’s facinating stuff.
http://uboat.net/index.html

info on Das Boot here http://uboat.net/special/movies/item/238

regards,
Phil

Interesting links Sens. It looks like this submarine is in a good shape! 🙂 I’m realy pleased to see one did survive se well after al this time.

Stieglitz

http://www.juergenthuro.de/html/u-995.html

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=U-Boot+Laboe&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=lr%3Dlang_de

For search in English, select web. Numerous pics, but none shows how narrow it is inside really. So your to go there to get that feeling. With several other visitors around you it comes more intense (similar a crew around you) and you think about, how to come out quickly if something unexspected happened. Against that the modern US-subs are luxus-liners.

http://home.t-online.de/home/dmr-greywolf/u995tour.htm
A real VIIC is to visit a Kiel Laboe memorial and free to visitors inside too.
As Wanshan mentioned before in an excellent way.

Thanks for the info curlyboy!

Greets,

Stieglitz

u-571

hello

further to the above posts the subs in the film U571 were mock ups, the conning tower of the film U571 which looks like one from a VIIc is on display at Bletchley park near milton keynes.

curlyboy

Wow! Thanks for the info Wanshan! That must be an impressive museum there at Munich.

Maybe one for the ‘stil to visit’ list. 😉

Regards,

Stieglitz

The original film set and models used during the making of Das Boot are open to the public as a part of the tour of the Bavarian Film Studios, Munich, Germany. There exists also a VIIC and a XXi as floating musea in Germany

The real U-571 was a Type VIIC U-boat laid down on 8 June 1940 at the Blohm & Voss Shipyard in Hamburg. It was commissioned on the 22 May 1941.

Thanks guys! 🙂

Does that model still survive? Are any further details of it available? For example it’s type of engine?

And any news about the U 571?

Greets,

Stieglitz

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Released in 1981 after two years of filming ‘Das Boot’ (The Boat) was, at the time of production, the most expensive German film in history, costing 30 million Deutsche Marks (US$40 million). Location shooting included segments shot in the La Pallice bunkers. There were three models made of the U-Boat used in the film, one of which was an exact replica made by the company that originally manufactured the boats during WWII. Although they wanted to use an authentic one for the film, the only surviving VII-C Class U-Boat is now a national monument in Germany and could not be used for filming. The non-functional full-size replica U-boat was accidentally sunk during filming, later raised and used also in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’. A smaller-sized functional model 6-7m replica was used to film ‘at sea’ scenes. The original film set and models used during the making of Das Boot are open to the public as a part of the tour of the Bavarian Film Studios, Munich . The original U96 was a Type VII-C.

My impression was that both subs were the larger Type IXs.

As a bit of trivia Steven Spielberg rented this u-boat when he made Raiders of the Lost Ark.