German submarine U-869 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II; her keel was laid down 5 April 1943 by Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG Weser of Bremen. It was commissioned on 26 January 1944 with Kapitänleutnant Hellmut Neuerburg in command.

The now-famous "Horenberg knife" German Navy markings on a dish U-869. The U-869 never sank a ship. The remains of the crew are still inside the broken hull, and even today this hapless boat continues to take lives: 3 divers have died on her …

The two men had finally succeeded in identifying U-869, a Type IX U-boat built for long-range cruising. The official record held that U-869 had been sunk by allied ships, with its full crew aboard, off Gibraltar.

The U-Who? In the fall of 1991, Captain Bill Nagle of the dive boat "Seeker" led a team of recreational scuba divers on an expedition to explore an unknown wreck site 60 miles off the New Jersey coast. Nagle discovered the resting place of a World War II German U-boat, a wartime loss with the 56 man crew still aboard.

A German U-boat was found off the coast of New Jersey, USA on 2 Sept, 1991 by several divers. On 31 August, 1997 these same divers reported evidence that the boat they found is U-869 (knife inscribed with a U-869 crew member's name, UZO torpedo aiming device, machinery-numbers from the engine room).

Like many of the late war U-boat crews, the men of U-869 came from all over Germany and consisted of mostly young new recruits, with a handful of experienced men. The average age was 20-years old with 17 year-old Otto Brizius being the …

U 869 war ein deutsches U-Boot vom Typ IX C/40, das im Zweiten Weltkrieg von der damaligen deutschen Kriegsmarine im Nordatlantik und dem Seegebiet vor Großbritannien eingesetzt wurde. U 869 sank im Jahr 1945 vor der nordamerikanischen Küste, 70 km vor New Jersey, und ist heute als Wrack betauchbar.

They shared their memories and photographs with me, and I began to understand who the men of U-869 were and what their lives had been like. The details of the discovery and identification of the U-boat were documented in a two hour NOVA program, "Hitler's Lost Sub", and in a new book"Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson.

2000年11月14日 · In 1991, a fisherman's net snagged on a massive object on the seafloor 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. Professional diver John Chatterton went down to investigate...

On August 8, 2020 a team of technical divers headed 60 miles offshore and 230 feet/70 meters to document the wreckage of the World War Two German submarine U-869. The story of the six-year...