Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] More youthful wetsub experiences

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@onewest.net>]

I recall there was a German sub base in French Guyana, I think.  Don't
remember much about that.  Has been 20+ years since I last heard of it.
Carl


Alec Smyth wrote:
> 
> >What's this?
> 
> >According to Official Records, the Argentine adventure ended
> >with nothing near Argentina.  I don't recall the Argentines
> >getting any old U-boats.  U-977 and U-530 (was that the one
> >that sank a few ships off the Amazon Delta AFTER the war?)
> >were sent to the U.S., as I recall it.
> 
> I am not talking of any U-boats having ended up there via negotiations or
> capture. I mean they were (supposedly) used as ocean liners to get top brass
> out there clandestinely. Once the passengers disembarked, they were
> scuttled. No participation in this by the Argentine government.
> 
> >If there was a U-boat base there, it's probably quite unofficial
> >and insanely illegal.  But this is the sort of thing that makes
> >history so interesting.
> 
> Yes, this would be completely unofficial and probably unknown to the
> government. The region is almost uninhabited and the farms large enough you
> would see them on a map of the world, although this farm is relatively close
> (100km?) to a town named Puerto Madryn. It is a very remote desert coast,
> and the first paved road to get there was completed only in the 1970s. If
> you look it up on a map, you'll see Puerto Madryn is on a very protected
> gulf called Golfo Nuevo. Bahia Cracker, where the base was, is one of the
> last bays before the southern tip of that gulf, on the mainland. Its
> actually pretty interesting geographically, if you see it on a map.

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