A collage of photographs from our trip to the U-Boat Story in Liverpool. U-534 was sunk on 5 May 1945, just after the German surender. She was depth charged by an RAF Halifax bomber as she left Kattegat in Denmark. (The middle right photograph shows the damage that sank her)
Discovered in the 1980s and raised from the deep in 1993, she is just one of four U-Boats in a preserved state anywhere in the world and has been in Liverpool since 2009.
She was also much sought after as nobody could explain (and the German governments refused to do so) why she was putting to sea so late in the war; rumoured to be carrying Nazi gold (or other secrets) she is yet to give up her prize.
