Luftwaffe General (General der Flieger) Ulrich Kessler, a Prussian-born diplomat and military strategist, was originally a naval officer, but resigned his commission in 1933 and became commander of Luftwaffe Stuka squadrons operating in Poland, Norway, and France. Shoji Genzo, an aircraft specialist and former naval attach in several European countries. Tomanaga Hideo, a naval aviator and submarine specialist who had come to Germany by Japanese submarine I-29 in 1943, and Lt. The twelve passengers included a German general and his staff, four German naval officers, civilian engineers and scientists, and two Japanese naval officers. Scalia, however, shifts this focus, and argues that the submarine's greatest value lay not in her cargo, but in the individuals who were accompanying the material to Japan. The presence of the uranium oxide, for example, has generated much interest and conjecture. Previous examinations of the voyage of U-234 have centered on the cargo carried by the vessel. German fire-control computers, Lorenz 7H2 bombsights, Lufte 7D bombsight computers, FUG 200 Hohehtweil airborne radars and bomb fuses were also included in the manifest along with other military equipment and personal luggage. Other cargo consisted of one ton of diplomatic mail and 6,615 pounds of technical material including drawings of ME 163 and ME 262 aircraft, plans for the building of aircraft factories, V-1 and V-2 weapons, naval ships (destroyers of classes 36C and Z51, and M and S boats), and submarines (Types II, VII, IX, X, XI, XXI, and XXIII). The uranium oxide was to be used by the Japanese as a catalyst for the production of synthetic methanol used for aviation fuel. That transit was never completed.Īmong the three hundred ton cargo was three complete Messerschmitt aircraft, a Henschel HS-293 glider-bomb, extra Junkers jet engines, and ten canisters containing 560 kg (1,235 lbs.) of uranium oxide (U235). There it loaded important cargo and personnel and departed on 15 April for a submerged voyage which was to take them around the Cape of Good Hope, eventually concluding in Japan. U-234 departed Kiel on its maiden voyage on 25 March 1945, bound for Kristiansand, Norway. It had only two stern torpedo tubes and carried a maximum of fifteen torpedoes.Ī newly-designed breathing and exhaust mast, the Schnorchel, permitted the U-234 to travel submerged for extraordinary distances. Cdr.) Johann-Heinrich Fahler, U-234 was originally designed to carry 66 SMA mines. Under the command of Kapitanleutnant (Kptlt., e.g. This was the largest type of German U-boat ever constructed at 1763 tons displacement, 2710 tons submerged and fully loaded, and 89.9 meters in overall length. It was instead refitted as a transport submarine and assigned to the perilous Germany-to-Japan run. Originally designed in 1938, it was intended to be one of a total of eight Type XB ocean-going mine-layers. Untersee boot U-234 was built between 1 October 1941 and 2 March 1944 at Kiel by F. The Italian newspaper la Repubblica labeled the appearance of USS Rhode Island in the European region “a message to Putin”.Fortuitous Failure - The Mission of U-234 from Germany to Japan See this article as a story – World’s Largest ‘American Nuclear Submarine’ Enters the Mediterranean Sea USS Rhode Island is supposed to head over to a strategic position in the Black sea in response to the Russian nuclear submarine Generalissimus Suvorov testing a ballistic missile. Military experts believe sending the USS Rhode Island should influence Russia and force it to abandon possible plans for a nuclear strike on Ukraine. The maximum range of these missiles is 18,000 km and their flight speed is 29,000 km/h. The massive submarine can carry 24 Trident II ballistic missiles. The USS Rhode Island also goes by the name “horsemen of the nuclear apocalypse” as it can carry 150-200 nuclear warheads. The United States has sent the world’s largest underwater nuclear missile submarine, USS Rhode, to European waters, sending a stern message to Russia here is all you need to know about it!
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