That we nevertheless made a real effort to provide correct data might be shown by the following examples. The database provides no information as to the source used for particular information, except when the information was extracted from radio messages (“TF” – “FT”). or by using whatever combination of entries. partly with drop-down menus offering what can be searched for in the database field concerned (events, U-boat groups) partly by entering free-text (commanding officers, text-fields with further information on events) Yes, but why then still an additional website on the subject?īecause our database, using a search form, can be searched for many and various facts: We base our data on own research and evaluations, without – however - dismissing critical comments regarding the contents of our work. We don’t want to continuously compare „our“ database with information presented by others. And we don’t want to compete with either of them, nor with other presentations of the subject neither do we want to be guilty of plagiarism. There already are, in no particular order, for example:Ĭorrect. Why “YET ANOTHER” website with U-boat stuff? We owe the technical division of the HMA that the database is being offered as it is (with the multiple search possibilities). (*) The present total number of records is listed just below the date of the last update and indicates the database is alive and constantly being extended. Till June 8, 2012, the day DUIKBOOT was made accessible to HMA-users with nearly 67.000 records in the database (*), HMA’s technical division expended almost a year of spare time to program the search and filter functions hiding behind the search form. Mid 2011 – with thanks to Thomas WEIS (aka “TW”) as most friendly and supportive middleman – contact was made with Thorsten REICH (aka “t-geronimo”), to offer DUIKBOOT to the HMA as possible project. Walter Cloots an engineer in electro-mechanics, leading a warehouse management team in a Belgian telecom company.Įnglish (and German) is a foreign language to us, but we bet Dutch is a foreign language to 95% of the HMA-users/readers. We are no professionals, no history scholars, just enthusiastic amateurs.įrans Beckers was a (strict but just) police-commissioner in a big city and As the project required a name with the Historischen MarineArchiv (HMA), for simplicity’s sake the original Dutch name was maintained.Īround 1975 our interest in the subject evolved into a real leisure time occupation. Our (and now also your) database since many years bears the name DUIKBOOT, the Dutch word for submersible. Just data.īecause the two authors of the database are from Flanders, and in this region of Belgium one speaks Flemish (officially the language is called “Dutch”). What is it?ĭUIKBOOT is a database, which means this project concerns only data: no paintings or photographs, no colourful ocean maps, no drawings, and also no full-text stories. operations during the Spanish Civil War), their loss or their end, etc. The database holds information and facts related to ordering, keel laying, launching, commissioning, important events during the operational life of the boats (incl. Submersible (EN) = Tauchboot (DE) = Duikboot (NL)ĭUIKBOOT is the name of a database about German U-boats of the Second World War era. Project "Duikboot" Written by Frans Beckers and Walter Cloots
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