Member U995 friendsship crew
https://http://www.qrz.com/db/DL0DMB

member of RNARS 4865 and MF-Runde 995

DOK: MF

For U995 events have a look at our homepage : http://www.marinefreunde.com - Int Mus Ship Event



Ops at DL0DMB are shown below, sometimes from other locations for special events.



Special DOKs for DL0DMB:

125DMB from 01-06 till 31-07-2016

50U995 from 01 till 31-03-2022



Special event 50 Years U995 at Laboe:

German version below:

U995 in Laboe for 50 Years

U995 is a German type VIIC/41 submarine built by Blohm & Voss shipyard and commissioned on September 16, 1943. During World War II the submarine was mainly used against Allied escort and convoy vessels and security forces in the Arctic Ocean. On May 8, 1945, U995 was in the docks of Trondheim and decommissioned. She was surrendered to Great Britain at the end of the war but remained at her Norwegian base.

Renamed KAURA, the submarine was later transferred into the ownership of the Royal Norwegian Navy to serve as a test and training boat. Finally discharged from service in 1965, she was handed over to the Federal Republic of Germany on October 2nd , 1971, an official sign of reconciliation.

On October 14, 1971, tugboat FAIRPLAY II towed U995 to Kiel to remain in the naval arsenal and to undergo restorations in an extended shipyard stay. In March 1972, the submarine was then shipped to Laboe in order to be opened to the public as a technical museum of the Deutsche Marinebund (DMB) for interested visitors. By floating cranes MAGNUS II and V, U995 was conveyed from the naval arsenal through the Kiel Fjord and on a 500-metre wide purpose-made particular shipping lane to the Laboe Naval Memorial where she was placed ashore on March 13, 1972. From the Memorial observation deck this shipping lane is clearly visible still today.



So since March 13, 1972, i.e. for 50 YEARS now, U995 has been a museum ship (Technical Museum of the DMB) at the foot of the Laboe Naval Memorial.



To mark this anniversary the U995 amateur radio crew will activate the submarine’s call sign DLØDMB (MF No. 995 / RNARS No. 4865) from March 1st to 31st 2022, both in CW and SSB modes.



Each contact and SWL report will be confirmed by a very nice photo QSL card of the U995 submarine with the special DOK “50U995” stamped on. Operation will be on all legal amateur radio bands preferably using the scene of action of MF meeting frequencies on 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 metres.

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