I noticed in the comments that the drivers where asked how many tanks there was.
The drivers were still there?!?!
Ah yes, of course, who else talked to the divers. . .
#4: Re: Submerged Shermans Author: Pzkpfw-e, Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 8:26 am ---- Is the inverted vehicle a Sherman? The tracks differ from the other one.
#5: Re: Submerged Shermans Author: Michel_Krauss, Location: Zuid-Holland, The NetherlandsPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:08 pm ---- the one at the left has rubber padded tracks fitted, the one at the right steel chevron tracks
If you watch the youtube movie the front cover of the right vehicle is also visible and that's also that of a Sherman
Michel
#6: Re: Submerged Shermans Author: 3R22R, Location: Ste-Agathe des Monts QCPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:50 pm ---- Are they too deep to be recovered or worth the effort? From that photo the tracks looks good from this angle.
#7: Re: Submerged Shermans Author: Pzkpfw-e, Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:24 pm ---- 65metres.
What's a Sherman that's been submerged in the sea for 70 years worth?
#8: Re: Submerged Shermans Author: Michel_Krauss, Location: Zuid-Holland, The NetherlandsPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:51 pm ----
- Pzkpfw-e
65metres.
What's a Sherman that's been submerged in the sea for 70 years worth?
Nothing, because salvaging will cost a fortune
If it would have been a freighter with German tanks, they would already have been "rescued"
Michel
#9: Re: Submerged Shermans Author: Pzkpfw-e, Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:31 pm ---- Looking at the state of the Stugs that came from the Santa Fe, you'd be quite right there!
#10: Re: Submerged Shermans Author: bialy-r, Location: POLANDPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:13 am ---- "Sherman tanks from the shipwreck of the Empire Heritage that lies in 70m depth. The wreck is located off the north coast of Donegal in Ireland"
#11: Re: Submerged Shermans Author: Dennis_Smith, Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:38 pm ---- It looks like this one had been sitting on a trailer.
U-boats sank 2,779 ships in WW2 for a total of 14.1 million tons. In 1942 alone, 6 million tons of shipping were sunk in the Atlantic, many of them right off the east coast of the U.S. I bet there's a whole bunch of Liberty ships full of jeeps and trucks and tanks down there.
#12: Re: Submerged Shermans Author: piney, Location: Republic of Southern New JerseyPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:31 pm ---- saw a TV show that this wreck was featured on, apparently the Shermans, among other things were deck cargo and at least one of them had the 76 mm gun
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#13: Re: Submerged Shermans Author: Rikard_Hufschmied, Location: Stockholm, SwedenPosted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:54 am ---- This is a nice picture: