U-boats Today

Midget submarines


A Molch at the Uboot-Lehrgruppe in Neustadt / Holstein, Germany

Today there are several German midget submarines from World War Two in various locations around the world. In this page I attempt to list all of them I know exist, there could be more than those but I doubt it.


Biber


 Imperial War Museum
London, Great Britain

Royal Naval Submarine Museum
Gosport (near Portsmoth), Great Britain

Deutsches Museum
Münich, Germany

Transport Museum
Speyer, Germany
(boat is marked UB-407)

Nederlands National Oorlogs-en Verzetsmuseum
Overloon, The Netherlands

Nederlands Kustverdedigins Museum
Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands
Reported in excellent condition after restoration, apart from the "conning tower". It was found in "de Nieuwe Waterweg" (the main route to Rotterdam) on 2 May, 1990 during dredging operations.

Naval base
Haakonsvern, Norway
(This is located near Bergen).

Marine Muset
Horten, Norway


Molch


 Uboot-Lehrgruppe
Neustadt/Holstein, Germany

Deutsches Museum
Münich, Germany

Nederlands National Oorlogs-en Verzetsmuseum
Overloon, The Netherlands

Canadian War Museum
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Molch # M391
South African War Museum
Johannesburg, South Africa
(In 1995 there was a Molch boat at the Smut's Canon Park in Johannesburg - might be the same boat though)



Seehund


 Le Base Sous-marine de Lorient
Lorient, France

U-5090
Naval Museum
Brest, France

Strandmuseum
Cuxhaven, Germany

Deutsches Museum
Münich, Germany

Maritime Museum
Bremerhaven, Germany

Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung
Koblenz, Germany

Transport Museum
Speyer, Germany
(boat is marked 17)

Deutsche Marinemuseum
Wilhelmshaven, Germany
(The boat was salvaged from off Ruegen around 1992)

US Naval Shipbuilding Museum, Quincy, MA, USA (site)
Boat (HU-75) formerly at Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, CT, USA

NJ Naval Museum
New Jersey, USA

Washington Navy Yard
Washington, USA.

Marine Arsenal
Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Costs about 5 EUR to access the area where the boat is.


Neger

Naval base
Haakonsvern, Norway
(This is located near Bergen).

Transport Museum
Speyer, Germany

Marder

Marinemuseet
Horten, Norway

Possible additional boats

If anyone could confirm those sites that would be most helpful.

Norway
There is possibly 1 additonal midget sub in Norway.

In Oct, 1997 a Molch, in quite good shape, seems to have been discoved out of Stavanger, Norway at 18m depth. Recently Norwegian naval divers have destroyed the torpedo charges.


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