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Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

SS Empire Heritage sunk at Malin Head off the coast of Ireland.

www.youtube.com/watch?...r_embedded

Roy_A_Lingle · 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!

Hanno_Spoelstra · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jun 04, 2006 Posts: 185

- Roy_A_Lingle

I noticed in the comments that the drivers where asked how many tanks there was.

The drivers were still there?!?! Shocked

Ah yes, of course, who else talked to the divers. . . Mr. Green

Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

Is the inverted vehicle a Sherman? The tracks differ from the other one.

Michel_Krauss · 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

3R22R · 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.

Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

65metres.
What's a Sherman that's been submerged in the sea for 70 years worth?

Michel_Krauss · 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" Mr. Green

Michel

Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

Looking at the state of the Stugs that came from the Santa Fe, you'd be quite right there!

bialy-r · 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

Dennis_Smith · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 192

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.

piney · 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

Rikard_Hufschmied · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:54 am Post subject: Re: Submerged Shermans

This is a nice picture:

Hanno_Spoelstra · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jun 04, 2006 Posts: 185

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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