U 1105
Click here for a map of the location of the U1105
This video shows the air
search periscope of the former German U-boat 1105. This submarine surrendered to the Allied
Naval Forces at the end of World War II.
This wreck is Navy property and is maintained by the Maryland Historical
Trust as the State’s first Submerged Historic Shipwreck Preserve. Information about this U-boat can be found
at http://www.uboat.net/boats/u1105.html
www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/u1105.html
and at www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-5.htm. The Institute
of Maritime History currently maintains this dive site.
The video shows the top
section (about 2 feet long) of the air search periscope is broken off but still
attached to the vessel by stainless steel cables. As directed by Dr. Susan Langley, the
Maryland State Archaeologist, volunteers removed the broken section and
delivered it to the Maryland Archeological Conservation Laboratory in Calvert
County for conservation and analysis in August 2002.
The video shows the usual
water turbidity and current on this site, making this an advanced dive. The heavy line tied around the base of the
periscope leads to a concrete “clump” which serves as the anchor for the buoy
that marks the site and provides a safe anchorage to moor visiting dive boats. The light line in the video goes to a smaller
marker buoy that directs the divers directly to the conning tower of the
wreck.
Dave Howe contributed to this page.
