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Naufrages en pays de Lorient
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Naufrages en pays de Lorient
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Epaves en baie de Lorient
Twelve perils of the sea around Lorient shores
L'Armorique
The Ghost of Landévennec
S-BOOTE
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U-Boote
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U-Boote
et la base de Keroman
Narval et Rubis
L'épopée des sous-marins FNFL
U 526
Histoire d'un U-Boot
Les Gardiens du Silence
Submarine wrecks over the world
Les Messagères de l'Histoire
South Brittany shipwrecks
L'Aumônier d'Escadre
Personal diary of a Squadron Chaplain
L'épopée des transports type Annamite
The Annamite class troopships Story
La Pierre des Portes
The sinking of the steamer Hilda
Gauss & Beijerland
DVD
Deep Rescue
The VMF rescue submarines story
From 16 till 22 September 2012, L’Expedition Scyllias participated, in Germany, beside French and German participants, in the shooting of a
documentary realized by the Convergence images company. In this opportunity were gathered Luc and Marc Braeuer, founders and organizers of the
remarkable “Le Grand Blockhaus” museum in Batz-sur-Mer (near Saint-Nazaire) as well as the film team consisted of Alban Vian, producer and director;
Stéphane L'Hôte, cameraman and Bruno Delande, sound operator, all three also reporters and photographers.
The first part of this trip took place in Kiel, the famous harbour of the Baltic Sea. The opportunity to meet a former Kriegsmarine submariner,
Oberleutnant-zur-See Hans Stemmler, Leitender Ingenieur aboard U 621, U 58, U 953 and U 3014. Having worked on the
elaboration of Schnorchel and the last models of torpedoes, his testimony was a tremendous learning experience. The next day, accompanied with
this veteran of the U-Bootwaffe, the team discovered U 995, in Laboe, last type VII C U-Boot still in a pretty good state and
besides get-at-able to everyone for visit since its refurbishment in museum. There also, in situ, the former submariner delivered his testimony.
Left : Kiel army harbour: tender A514 Werra (Elbe class) ; stern to stern,
corvettes F263 Oldenburg and F264 Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Braunschweig class) ; on the other side of the quai, the huge
combat support ship A1412 Frankfurt am Main (Berlin class).
Centre : two officers of the German navy, two ages : Oblt-z-S Hans Stemmler and Oblt-z-S Jens Höner.
Right : the museum-U-Boot U 995, last type VII C still get-at-able for visit.
Oberleutnant-zur-See Jens Höner, naval frogman and instructor to the Kampfschwimmerkompanie in Eckernförde, friend of L’Expedition Scyllias
and specialist of rebreathers (recordman for Germany with -241m), also brought his help : in this particular case a real Tauchretter was kindly
lent by the firm Dräger. OlzS. Höner, in front of cameras, explained the functioning of the famous rescue device, the use of which was indeed relatively
complex.
This very busy day ended by the visit of the memorial to the German disappeared sailors, face to U 995. Followed a passage in front of the
old and ruined walls of the Kiel-Wik barracks behind which hundreds of German submariners passed in transit and which preserves, from now on, the memory
of a sacrificed youth.
Left : the famous memorial tower.
Centre : wreath laid in memory of disappeared German sailors.
Right : the former Kiel-Wik barracks.
The morning of 17 was dedicated to the memorial of the German submariners disappeared at sea, erected in the small village of Heikendorf. We watched the
bronze plaques pass by, on which are engraved the names of thousands of men and hundreds of U-Boote disappeared during both world wars.
The afternoon and the day of 18 were reserved for the Deutsches U-Boot-Museum (Stiftung Traditionsarchiv Unterseeboote), in Altenbruch,
where his world-famous founder, former Leutnant-zur-See Horst Bredow, embarked aboard U 288, welcomed us and opened us the doors of his archives
within this admirable museum. This is Dietmar Scholten, a diver of the Ubootarchiv diving team and also friend of L’Expedition Scyllias,
who acted as a guide in this fabulous private museum dedicated to the German submarine arm of both wars. The uniform of admiral Karl Dönitz thrones in the
right place, surrounded with other uniforms of submariner and with parts so exceptional as rare, real testimonies of a page of History exposing itself to
the gaze of the stunned visitor. A breathtaking dive in the brave and dramatic epic of Unterseebootwaffe !
Left : JLM, Dietmar Scholten and former Leutnant-zur-See Horst Bredow.
Centre : Dietmar Scholten is manoeuvring a 8,8cm SkC/35 deck gun.
Right : uniforms in plenty, among them admiral Karl Dönitz' one (third one from the right).
The trip continued together with Dietmar by the visit of an original museum situated not far from there, in Cuxhaven : the Wrackmuseum is a
complex dedicated to shipwrecks and presenting numerous very original pieces of which a midget submarine Seehund or the conning tower and the
propellers of the English submarine E 24.
We packed a lot into this week which allowed L’Expedition Scyllias to consolidate the friendly relationship with these German divers of the
Ubootarchiv diving team, to discover together some representative elements of the exceptional German historical heritage and to participate,
together with the Braeuer brothers and with the Convergence images team, in this first part of the shooting of a promising documentary.
From right to left, up to down : Luc and Marc Braeuer (musée du Grand Blockhaus), Hans Stemmler and his wife ; Bruno Delande
(sound operator), Alban Vian (producer and director) and Stéphane L’Hôte (cameraman) for Convergence images.
Convergence images : www.convergence-images.com
Grand Blockhaus in Batz-sur-Mer : www.grand-blockhaus.com
Stéphane L'Hôte : www.stephane-lhote.com
Dräger : www.draeger.com
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