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Re: food onboard uboats

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Post by Pax Melmacia » 23 Jul 2009, 05:57

In Operation Drumbeat it confirms that food quality was dependent on the cook's ingenuity. On the way out when fresh food was still that, the cook of U 123 would fry up some pork cutlets. If a dive was ordered, he'd pull the meat out of the fire and shut the stove off, lest the smoke be redirected throughout the boat. If the dive lasted long, he'd serve instead sausages and tinned food like sardines which only needed to be warmed. When the boat did surface he'd add sauerkraut to the cutlets if they had dried out. When the fresh food ran out he'd cook up macaroni, a.k.a. Mussolini's asparagus, with gravy/sauce depending on what was on hand. (I imagine the cutlets were for the officers only; I couldn't picture him preparing enough for the entire crew of a Type IX boat in his tiny stove. The rest would probably get some stew.)

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Re: food onboard uboats

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Post by tigre » 27 Oct 2016, 00:37

Hello to all :D; a small complement ..................

Provisions aboard a U Boat.

Food conditions on board U-Boats seem on the whole to be exceedingly good. Survivors from U 100, which had come from Germany, stated that the food supplied to U-boats was of the very best. Fresh fruit, oranges, lemons and apples were liberally supplied for the crew. This boat had been at sea for nine days when she was sunk. On the other hand a medical report on the survivors of U 99, which had come from Lorient and had been at sea for 24 days when she was sunk, indicated that the food was not so good as in the other two U-Boats (U 70 and U 100).

The medical report was as follows: "I examined today 33 other ranks. I found their state of health to be poor. General nutrition was poor. A large percentage of the men were suffering from and infected with gingivitis and an appreciable number were anemic (five out of 33 markedly so, to a clinical degree). Eight out of 33 had marked oral sepsis.

I conclude that the men have been on a very poor diet, markedly defective, especially in protein, fat and fresh fruit, vegetables and similar sources of vitamin "C."

Menu for 42 Days from U 70 .....................

Breakfast: Coffee, cocoa or soup, jam or butter or honey and an egg on dam and.

Start:
Day 1 Liver, cabbage, potatoes, fruit
One kipper, liver sausage, butter, bread, coffee.
Day 2 Black or liver sausage, sour cabbage, mashed potatoes, fruit
Sandwiches, butter, bread, tea.

Middle:
Day 20 Macaroni and bacon, stewed fruit
Matties herrings, bacon fat, potatoes in their jackets, dripping, bread tea.
Day 21 Beans, mutton, fruit
Sausage, Emmentaler cheese, butter, bread, coffee.

End:
Day 40 Cooked bacon, French beans, potatoes, compote.
Day 41 Vegetable curry, one pickled cucumber, potatoes, stewed fruit.
Day 42 Cabbage with beef, compote.

Sources: http://www.todocoleccion.net/militaria- ... ~x42421506
http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-70A/U-70INT.htm

Cheers. Raul M 8-).
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U 48 (Type VIIB) under kplt. Herbert Schulze, being supplied before starting a new patrol during the winter 1939/40 ..................
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Re: food onboard uboats

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Post by tigre » 29 Oct 2016, 15:00

Hello to all :D; more..................

Provisions aboard a U Boat.

Sources: http://67.media.tumblr.com/820f3966704e ... 1_1280.jpg#

Cheers. Raul M 8-).
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Re: food onboard uboats

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Post by Old_Fossil » 10 Nov 2016, 05:03

I'm curious how the Monsun U-boats managed provisioning. Did the Japanese provide canned goods for them or did the crews have to make do without canned goods?
"If things were different, they wouldn't be the same."

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Post by tigre » 09 Jul 2017, 17:57

Hello to all :D; more..................

Der kamaraden hat Geburgtstag (Comrades have birthdays).

Sources: https://www.delcampe.net/de/sammlerobje ... 44379.html

This cook was really a true chef isn´t it? Cheers. Raul M 8-).
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Re: food onboard uboats

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Post by tigre » 18 Sep 2017, 02:10

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Provisions aboard a submarine of the Regia Marina.

Sources: http://www.ebay.it/itm/Foto-Soldat-KM-M ... 2814487715

Anyone have an idea of the Italian menu? Cheers. Raul M 8-).
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Boarding provisions on an Italian submersible; caught my attention the boxes with the inscriptions Fragile and Lanson (champagne brand of Reims). Each box had 15 bottles and I see four boxes (one bottle per each of the crew) ..............................
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Re: food onboard uboats

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Post by mark harrison » 18 Sep 2017, 03:39

Hi, Germans would not eat Japanese food-this was a major problem for them. The Japanese armed forces would eat food that europeans would not consider fit to eat.
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Post by tigre » 13 Jan 2018, 01:44

Hello to all :D; more..................

Provisions aboard a U Boat.

Sources: http://uboot-recherche.de/U31-5656
http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/bo ... ction.html

Cheers. Raul M 8-).
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U 31 (Type VII A) being supplied before a control patrol during the SCW
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Re: food onboard uboats

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Post by Tic Tac » 24 Jan 2018, 19:03

U 26 in the Spanish Civil War, breakfast
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Post by mark harrison » 25 Jan 2018, 03:19

Hi, As the fuel oil of the boat made it's way into the bilges it tainted the atmosphere so everything on a diesel submarine smells and tasted of diesel. I know I had to eat a meal on a submarine during the 1970's. No wonder the crew in your pictures were on the deck.

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Post by tigre » 05 Feb 2018, 23:45

Hello to all :D; more..................
Provisions aboard a U Boat.
Sources: https://www.todocoleccion.net/militaria ... x105359426

Cheers. Raul M 8-).
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Embarking food on U 101, from the pier ............................................
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Post by tigre » 20 Feb 2018, 23:07

Hello to all :D; more................................

Provisions aboard a U Boat.

Sources: http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_41-45_skc32.php

Cheers. Raul M 8-).
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Re: food onboard uboats

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Post by hannibal2 » 24 Feb 2019, 09:04

For the sake of accuracy, the quote from Stern's book contains an error that needs to be corrected: The storage of food was controlled not by the Obersteuermann but by the Oberbootsmann, two entirely different positions. It was the latter who was tasked with keeping the crew in line and looking after its welfare. The man who had the vitally important job of keeping the boat on the right course had better things to do than figuring out how to best stow the Schinken and the Dauerwurst. The same mistake was made in the cited article on uboat.net which Sewer King opines, correctly I think, as having come from Stern's book. This is how false information is often perpetuated.

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Post by tigre » 28 May 2022, 03:19

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Provisions aboard a U Boat.

Sources: U-Boot im Focus Edition No 20

Cheers. Raul M 8-).
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Food on the dock to be loaded on U 124 (Type IX B) "Edelweissboot"; shows (1) canned vegetables and fruits, (2) instant noodles, (3) canned tomatoes, and (4) canned vegetables..........
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