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Photo # 80-G-442933:  USS U-3008 underway at sea, 15 April 1948

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USS U-3008 (ex-German U-3008, 1945), 1946-1956

U-3008, a German Navy 1621-ton Type XXI high-performance submarine, was completed at Bremen during the final weeks of World War II. She was surrendered at the Allies at Kiel in May and taken over by the U.S. Navy that summer. After crossing the Atlantic to the East Coast, she was overhauled and in July 1946 was placed in service as USS U-3008. During the next two years, she operated in the Caribbean area and off New England as a test and evaluation submarine, from which the Navy learned much about fast submarines and the tactics necessary to counter them. However, her advanced technology and innovative construction techniques proved troublesome, and U-3008 was placed out of service in June 1948. Subsequently employed for tests, she had gone back to the Caribbean by the time she was sold for scrapping in September 1955.

This page features all the views we have related to USS U-3008 and the German submarine U-3008.


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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Photo #: NH 96270

U-3008

(German Type XXI submarine, later USS U-3008)

At Wilhelmshaven, Germany, between 2 and 21 June 1945.
The two Type IX submarines with her are U-806 (far left) and U-155. The light cruiser Nürnberg is in the far left center.

Copied from "Naval Technical Mission in Europe Technical Report Number 403-45: The Influence of High Submerged Speed on German Submarine Hulls".

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 125KB; 590 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: 19-N-95865

USS U-3008
(ex-German submarine U-3008)

Underway off the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 30 August 1946.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 560 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-95866

USS U-3008
(ex-German submarine U-3008)

Off the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 30 August 1946.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 590 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-95861

USS U-3008
(ex-German submarine U-3008)

At the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 30 August 1946.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 555 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-95863

USS U-3008
(ex-German submarine U-3008)

At the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 30 August 1946.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 595 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-442933

USS U-3008
(ex-German submarine U-3008)

Underway at sea on 15 April 1948.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 135KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-95856

USS U-3008
(ex-German submarine U-3008)

View of the port side of the submarine's conning tower, showing periscope, snorkel and antennas raised. Taken at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 30 August 1946.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 66KB; 590 x 715 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-95858

USS U-3008
(ex-German submarine U-3008)

View atop the conning tower, looking forward, showing periscope base. Taken at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 30 August 1946.
Note the U.S. Navy jack flying at her bow.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 575 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-95860

USS U-3008
(ex-German submarine U-3008)

View atop the conning tower, looking aft, showing periscope base and retracted snorkel. Taken at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 30 August 1946.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 565 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-442938

USS U-3008
(ex-German submarine U-3008)

View of the submarine's conning tower, with her snorkel raised. Taken at Key West Naval Station, Florida, 25 July 1947.
Note her insignia painted on the front of the conning tower.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 65KB; 595 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


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