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Polar · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject: Hetzer recovered in Poland

Today (Hel 26.05.07) Hetzer was recovered from sea in Hel (Poland).

Galery www.odkrywca.pl/galeri...?nazwa=432

Maple_Leaf_Eh · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 517

www.odkrywca.pl/galeri...?nazwa=433

This looks like the first part of the Hetzer recovery story.

A2_Prius · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 112

Any idea how this relic ended up IN THE WATER?

Rikard_Hufschmied · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:39 am Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland

- A2_Prius

Any idea how this relic ended up IN THE WATER?

The Hel peninsula was a German defensive pocket with units encircled there since the fall of Gotenhafen (Gdynia) in March 1945. These units didn't formally surrender until May 10th 1945. The Hetzer was probably ditched in the water on purpose to avoid capture.

The peninsula was also the last foothold of the Polish forces in 1939.

3R22R · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland

I once saw a documentary about shipwrecks that said tha the Baltic sea
has a low saline content, it may explain why the vehicle seems reasonably
intact.

Polar · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland

more photos this Hetzer
www.odkrywca.pl/galeri...w,463.html
www.odkrywca.pl/galeri...-,449.html

bialy-r · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:35 am Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland

Current photo of the Hetzer

odkrywca.pl/forum_pics...hetzer.jpg

The renovation works are still going on.

Rikard_Hufschmied · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:39 am Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland

I still wonder what could have caused that level of corrosion?

bialy-r · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:51 am Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland

- Rikard_Hufschmied

I still wonder what could have caused that level of corrosion?

Salt water, it was recovered from beach on Baltic Sea.

Rikard_Hufschmied · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:41 am Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland

- bialy-r

- Rikard_Hufschmied

I still wonder what could have caused that level of corrosion?

Salt water, it was recovered from beach on Baltic Sea.

Yes I know, but the saline content is so low in the Baltic Sea that the level of corrosion doesn't seem normal. Maybe rock salt or some other chemical reaction in the seabed?

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

It was immersed for the thick end of 60 years, so it's not so much a case of being surprised how much corrosion, but how little!
Quite a lot of what you put down as corrosion, is also concretion, layers of marine growth. I've seen a cannon pulled out of the sea, with a 2" thick layer, easily knocked off with a hammer, to expose the metal beneath, that started to oxidise (ie rust) immediately.

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