Very rare to find German U-boat relic which is a Internal engine part from one of the German Kriegsmarine U boats scuttled in 1945 in the Elbe II bunker on the Elbe River at Vulkanhafen

This is a very rare to find German uboat relic which is a Internal engine part from one of the German Kriegsmarine U boat submarines U-3506, U-3004 and U-250S which were all scuttled inside a uboat pen in 1945. This round hollow part is rusty with no paintwork remains it has been nicely cleaned and is in nice solid condition perfect for display or any collection. The engine part is 4 inches long in size. The part was recovered one of the uboats from inside the pen that was the Elbe II bunker on the Elbe River at Vulkanhafen in Hamburg. The part was recovered by divers in the late 1980’s before the pen was filled in and is no longer accessible. The part comes with 2xA5 laminated information cards with pictures.

As World War II drew to a close, the Elbe II bunker sustained several hits. A Tallboy bomb strike in 1945 resulted in the 3-meter-thick ceiling curving slightly inward. An attack on April 8, 1945, led to partial destruction of the hanging gate locks due to a nearby explosion. In the final days of the war, three submarines – U-3004, U-2505, and U-3506 – were deliberately sunk by their crews in western pens. On the 11th of November 1945, Royal Engineers from the British Army detonated several well-placed sets of explosives (mainly discarded Luftwaffe ordinances) in an attempt to implode the whole complex.