There is no entrance to sea remotely close to New Orleans. New Orleans is more than 100 miles above the entrance to the sea and to try to navigate the river channel from N.O. to the Gulf in anything but broad daylight and/or having up-to-date charts and an experienced pilot for such a "deep" draft vessel would be a foolhardy and impossible thing to attempt. The entrance channels in the Mississippi River and the navigable channels through the "bayou", are too shallow for a submarine to travel other than being always on the surface. And besides these obvious facts, I see no reason for a U-boat attempting to do so.Hexar wrote:The second story involves U-boats. I think it is a fact that U-boats operated very close to US shores on occasion. The story I was told was that a U-boat acutally entered the Mississippi River at New Orleans. I can't imagine a U-boat travelling very far up that particular river, but perhaps it was in the delta, near the Port of New Orleans? Myth?
The U-boats did operate in the Gulf of Mexico and as close as they could around the entrances to the Mississippi as it was a "target rich enviroment" but the shallow water of the Mississippi sound and the Gulf in these areas made this a very far distance.