Invergordon off the Wall Image Library

Picture No 224. Courtesy of John Duguid Ross .
Year: 1945

German u-boat at Invergordon harbour

Duguid wrote " photo of German U-boat U.776 at Invergordon harbour between the wars". Can anyone identify the people on board or help with the date?
Picture added on 02 October 2006.

Comments

U776 (type viic) was commissioned in 1944 being a later version it had no forward 88mm deck gun.
this u boat seems to be fitted with a snorkel, a late development. u776 surrendered in may 1945. It became the british submarine n65, used for tests prior to being scuttled. It may have been in Invergordon in its role as n65, open to the public.
Added by Norman Mackenzie on 05 September 2006.

Hi Norman, nice to hear from you. Thanks for the information. We'll change the date to 1946.

Where are you based now? I'm still in Invergordon and still working. Noreen
Added by Ann & Noreen (Administrators) on 05 September 2006.

To Administrators: Hi Noreen, resident in Aberdeen for many years. Enjoyed browsing this site and the Image Library.
Added by Norman Mackenzie on 06 September 2006.

Glad you enjoy browsing the site, Norman. It's pretty time-consuming trying to keep up with photographs at the moment. The artists are going at such a speed. There are 4 working here just now and Ann and I are just amateurs at this caper. Noreen
Added by Ann & Noreen (Administrators) on 07 September 2006.

Hi all,

U-776 surfaced and surrendered SW of Fastnet Light on 14 May 1945 and entered Portland on the following day. As H.M. Submarine N-65 she was commissioned into the Royal Navy for exhibition purposes, and undertook a meet-the-people tour during the summer of 1945 calling at London (Westminster Pier), Southampton, Dover, Chatham, Harwich, Great Yarmouth, Hull, Grimsby, Middlesbrough, Blyth, Newcastle, Sunderland, Edinburgh, Rosyth, Dundee, Aberdeen, INVERGORDON, Kirkwall, Lerwick and then on to Loch Ryan. She was stored there until sunk in the north Atlantic under Operation Deadlight. U-776 was towed out from Loch Ryan by the tug ENFORCER on 3rd December 1945 and foundered in 48 fathoms that same day at position 5508N x 0530W..
The picture must therefore date from circa July 1945.
I am shortly to publish an illustrated history of the surrender of the German U-boat fleet into Loch Eriboll in May 1945. Thirty-three U-boats surrendered to Loch Eriboll, and I have identified them all. Sadly U-776 was not one of them.
Best wishes.
Added by DAVID M. HIRD, Sutherland on 03 November 2009.

Thank you for all the information. We will change the date to 1945.
Noreen and Ann (Administrators)
Added by on 04 November 2009.

Hi again,

Further to my note above regarding the visit to Invergordon of U-776 I am now able to give details of my study of the surrender of German U-boats to Loch Eriboll, Sutherland in May 1945.
The book is to be published in May/June next under the title THE GREY WOLVES OF ERIBOLL. Publishers are Whittles Publishing, Dunbeath, Caithness KW6 6EY. (info@whittlespublishing.com) Publisher's advance publication details are www.whittlespublishing.com - new titles
Cheers and best wishes.
Added by DAVID M. HIRD on 24 February 2010.


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