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Sank 5th May 1945 - Raised 23rd August 1993 - Location: Wallasey Docks, Merseyside

February 2008. U 534 has left her home on Birkenhead Docks and is now be on Woodside Ferry Terminal Birkenhead.

U-534 Images


 Type IXC/40 - U534 - built 1942

Stern damage from depth charge evident

Looking along starboard side - dive plane prominent

Port Side Central - showing rebuilt conning tower

Port side central - 2 x 20mm AA guns

Rails added by Museum for safety

Rear port side

Port diving plane and front torpedo tube

Port Torpedo housing

Good indication of size

In this and the next image you can

see the AA Guns in attack position

Conning tower on her arrival in Birkenhead

Depth charge damage causing buckled plates

These two images are taken from the U Boat site

at
www.uboat.net 
These last three were taken on 10th July 2004 whilst I was in Liverpool attending the 60th Anniversary of Capt Walker's death at the laying up of the standard of Captain Walker's Old Boys Association

http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/walker7.html

 

Later on I revisited the U534. Externally there appears to have been little done, except for the addition of a safety conscious public stairway leading to the port deck
which can be seen to the right of this image. The "new" conning tower has now got itself covered in rust as has the rest of the boat. Sunlight shone through glaring holes in her outer casing.
The diving planes in the surfaced or level sailing configuration. This image makes U534 look almost shark like, a mechanical predator, which she was!
The bows, torpedo doors closed. They look cleaner than they did on the first visit
and looking back down starboard side. Lets hope she can get some protective paintwork before its too late.

The above image was taken by Vincent Ryan


Engine Room and Galley

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Artifacts recovered from the U534 and the Enigma Machine from U534

 
The above images are by Susanne Giehler (from UBoat.net)

  
U534 arrives on Merseyside                              U534 at night

These three were taken by me on 14th June 2006 where U534 is resting in her "temporary" home about 250 yards away from what is not a developers building site

Clearly showing the damage done to the stern (right) by the attacking Liberator's depth charge

Where U534 once sat is now a developers building yard.

Gareth Boote (22/07/06) took the following 5 images

The following images were taken by Colin Davis in December 2006, my thanks to him for sending them on

These two give you an idea of the cramped conditions of which up to 50 men would live and work

When we see how carefully preserved the subs in the USA are, its a disgrace that we cannot get this historical monument sorted out!


The 4x4 and trailer give an good indication of the size of U534

John Nightingale, a gent from Canada, who has been of help to me in the past on image refinement, has sent me this compilation image of the U534.
Its taken from various images and made into one panoramic view. He tells me it is something new from the Artificial Intelligence people
at the University of British Columbia.

Nights Shots - From Rob Lockhart

The following images were taken by Colin Davies. Please note 4th from left central row - evidence that the U534 is disintegrating



Des Alcock of www.hylift.co.uk promised me some images of the U-534 that he took, here they are:

 

 

 

The next taken by Gary Tait

On February 18th 2008, I travelled up to Liverpool to present the original metal ships crest of HMS Wild Goose to the Maritime Museum, on the way back I went back to the U-534 to see what was
happening with the proposed move to Woodside - here are some images.

NEW HOME

May 30th 2008. A Visit To Woodside Ferry Terminal to find the U-534 in her new home; I wasn't disappointed. She has been cut up into 4 sections, aft, aft of tower, tower, and forward. Whilst I am sorry to see such a beautiful submarine reduced to sections, it is the only way that people can fully appreciate the cramped conditions these men worked in. The outer hull is but part of the casing, the inner pressure hull was obviously much smaller and this contained the men.


Woodside Ferry Terminal


Proximity to Birkenhead Town Hall (Tower)

 

 

During a trip there in July 08, Corrie Rynberk took the following 4 images:


Type 9C U Boat diagramatics, (Large File)

 

http://u534.coolfreepages.com/ Salvage Members Page

http://uboat.net/gallery/articles/u534_visits.htm - Visiting the U534