U-2505 SNORKEL THERMOMETER
$275.00
60086-7
Fine relic from a German U-Boat 2505, the thermometer attached to the main pipe of the submarine snorkel's air intake. The thermometer is stamped with the date, "14 12 44" in blue ink on the back, with a pencil-written note, "Schnorkel Luftrohr oben". The housing is black bakelite and the scale itself is aluminum, showing a unique measurement system in celsius. The U-2505 was laid down on May 23, 1944 and commissioned on November 7, 1944. It is a Type XXI submarine, the first German sub designed to operate completely submerged. The U-2505 type never saw combat and were all buried in the Elbe II bunker in Hamburg, where this thermometer was recovered. Had such U-boats been made in higher quantity and been able to enter the war, they would in all likelihood have dramatically affected naval fighting and possibly the war entirely. Fine.