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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:52 pm Post subject: Submerged Shermans
SS Empire Heritage sunk at Malin Head off the coast of Ireland. www.youtube.com/watch?...r_embedded

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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:29 pm Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
Hi Folks! Very interesting! I noticed in the comments that the drivers where asked how many tanks there was. I think I counted 7, maybe 8. Sgt, Scouts out! _________________ "You can never have too much reconnaissance." General G.S. Patton Jr.

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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:45 pm Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
- Roy_A_Lingle 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. . .

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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 8:26 am Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
Is the inverted vehicle a Sherman? The tracks differ from the other one.

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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
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 _________________ I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You

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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
Are they too deep to be recovered or worth the effort? From that photo the tracks looks good from this angle. _________________ Guy

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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
65metres. What's a Sherman that's been submerged in the sea for 70 years worth?

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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:51 pm Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
- 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 _________________ I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You

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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
Looking at the state of the Stugs that came from the Santa Fe, you'd be quite right there!

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:13 am Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
"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" video: vimeo.com/78827838

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
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.

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
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 _________________ The only good skwerril is a dead un Last edited by piney on Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:27 pm; edited 1 time in total

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Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:54 am Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
This is a nice picture: _________________ Frustra Nate Vive Devincere

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Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:01 pm Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans
Excellent picture, indeed! It seems subsea is the only place left where one can see an undisturbed Sherman tank graveyard. Above sea they have all been picked clean...

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