U-boat Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/u-boat/ Mechanically-minded travel Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:54:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The U-Boat Base – Saint-Nazaire https://mechtraveller.com/2023/04/the-u-boat-base-saint-nazaire/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/04/the-u-boat-base-saint-nazaire/#comments Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:32:42 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8816 These days, the huge fortified bunker built by the Germans in 1941 to protect its U-boats, is no longer referred to as the “U-boat base” or “the U-boat pens”. Instead they simply call it the ‘submarine base’, maybe to disassociate it from its origins, but we all know who built it and why. Other Saint-Nazaire […]

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