The Central Park U-Boat
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In October 1917, a German U-boat popped up in New York's iconic Central Park. Find out the fascinating story behind the UC-5's journey to America, and the reasons for its ending up in the middle of New York!
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My great grandfather Herbert Jame Geiger, owner of the Bulk Wreckers & Salvage Company, purchased the submarine at the end of the war. He sold many pieces of it as souvenirs to locals but most of it ended up being scraped. He kept the conning tower for his children to play on. It still stands in our backyard to this day in Saint Regis Falls, NY.
Unlike many comparable UA-cam channels, you speak with a clear enunciation at a moderate tempo, giving the listener a chance to pick up on all that you say. The value of this should not be underestimated, especially for the non-native English speaking part of your audience!
One of the things I love about your videos is that you’re so consistent with uploading, Mark. Your videos are incredibly interesting and so well made!
joe smiih Yeah he has been uploading a lot recently.
And besides that, there is so much we have learned that we would never have otherwise known about.
Hear, hear
Agreed. It's like I am in a graduate history course each and every time I watch one of Mark's videos. Very very interesting indeed and I look forward to all his new content!
Renamed "U-Buy-A-Bond". That is priceless.
USA had a good sence of humor in this naming :)
Some one definitely had fun coming up with that name, yes!
Perhaps your use of "priceless" is also relevant.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Only we Americans could come up with that! Priceless, indeed.
This was also done during the second world war. A German stuka was on display in the parking lot of a Searsrobuck store in Union city N.J. Thanks Mark for bringing history to life . You know I'm a big fan of your channel.
Another video on something I've never heard of. Thanks for the info!
I have seen a few pieces of German Artillery on display and it was always a mystery how it got to some town in West Texas or Nebraska or something. Now we know.
Would have been an unbelievably ironic turn of events if the ship carrying it was sunk by a U-Boat...
Not to mention just how much it would have saved the Germans in terms of fewer War Bonds bought to fund the US war effort.
Liberation for the captured U-Boat Bretheren, that will be
I thought that same thing
The real irony was noted in the video--the U-boats' success led to Germany's defeat by drawing the United States into the war. The Germans neglected this historical lesson about their military inferiority, and declared war on the United States in WWII, with the same result. Stupid is as stupid does. . .
Why would that be ironic?
There is an Oberon-Class submarine half buried (up to the waterline) in a park in a small town in Australia called Holbrook. It was placed there in honor of one of Australia's early submarine/torpedo pioneers.
While passing through the township it caught the eye of my Greek mate who asked me how it got there. I told him it sailed up the nearby river during a big flood to evacuate the township, but the flood subsided before it could get out and it's been there ever since.
He believes that yarn to this day and I have to hide my cheeky grin every time he repeats it to others.
I have read about WWI and WWII since I was 7, some 50 years ago. Consistently, you bring up pieces of important knowledge I had no clue of. I had previously thought myself well-educated, at least reasonably so, about these two wars. I no longer suffer from that delusion. Thank you for your amazing work and dedication to accuracy!
tho more you lern, thes more you don't know
I have exactly the same feeling, although I am a few years younger than you at 53. This has become one of my absolute favorite channels.
Same here buddy!
When he asked ' how did a U boat end up in central park ? ' I initially thought it was due to some catastrophic navigation.
Andy Nixon sounds about right
@jaxie taxi That Hanz was always a little too fond of his schnapps! xD
@jaxie taxi
The Jerrys must have been real lightweights. Schnapps is no match for American rotgut whiskey. You have to give them credit for tenacity though. It takes great seamanship to sail up a city street.
No that was the soviet union much later whisky 137 )
Sort of Sharknado with U-Boats? Seems legit.
According to the polish wikipedia page: it went to Montreal in november 1917 and after that to Toronto. Later it went on a trip trough the entire United States. And it was indeed scrapped after the end of the war.
do u have a link handy for that? I wonder why it doesn't show up in english wiki?
@@leary4 Go to the polish wikipedia page and translate it in your own langauge.
@@leary4 There are a lot of things the English Wiki doesn't have...
According to that site www.graptolite.net/Facta_Nautica/submarines/U-Buy-A-Bond.html (also in polish :D ) U-boot sailed on barges (XI 1917) trought Hudson river to Troy in US and then trought lake Champlain to Montreal. Next stop was in Toronto. After time in Canada it returned to US and got another bond collecting tour throught many states to the end of war. According to author it was scrapped in 1923.
@@leary4 translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fpl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSM_UC-5
Best channel on UA-cam and I watch a lot of UA-cam.
Facts ^
@Mark Gaiennie tro
Have you seen The History Guy? His are exceptionally good as well.
Keep ‘em coming, Mark. Fabulous and fascinating.
The title music is very dramatic and definitely has a WW2 action film feel to it. Good choice.
I agree, but the music has a WWI feel to it, but I get your meaning.
Now that I think about it, it does sound like the music in the Victory at Sea movie serials of WWII.
Mark also has the perfect war history announcers voice, too. He does great work with these short videos about forgotten history. I enjoy each one of them, and hope he keeps producing these for as long as he wants to.
As a kid living on Catalina Island in the late 1950s we used to play with a WWI Maxim machine-gun in a small park off Front Street in Avalon. It was inert, welded so nothing moved, and mounted on concrete. We all wondered where it came from and why it was there. A few years later I found out that it had been "bought" by the town of Avalon during WWI for buying war bonds. This video is the first time I've seen a second reference to that practice. Thanks! (In 1997, when I visited the island, the gun was still there!)
Mark deserves 1 million subscribers. His videos represent the best of UA-cam
I thought I was going crazy when I bought a world war one picture from a local antique store that had this exact u-boat
Wow, that’s a REAL collectible ‼️🎯🍺
Get real liar.
And you would never lie to us, "fallout cosplay"? 😄
@@joeancinec How is it such an unlikely story?
Very nice presentation. My Grandfather was an EM2c USN when assigned to crew the surrendered SM UB-88, eventually bringing it to Long Beach, California. It was sunk as a target 1921 in Catalina channel. UB-88 remains the only U-boat to have been on the California coast.
Dude I've explored every centimeter of central park. I was already asking myself how I could have missed a big Uboot there.
Where'd it go? I dunno!
Something about "leaving valuables unattended" in Central Park seems a bit foolish...
Your channel is awesome. Tom Clancy once said that... “ a new Clive Cussler novel is like a visit from an old friend”. I get that same excited feeling every time you upload a new video. Thanks you Mark for the very informative stories. Well investigated and presented. Cheers.
I wont insist but a short biblio for each episode, a sort of a "guide for further reading", would be much appreciated. Thank you Mark!
Thank you Dr. Felton for keeping history alive.
AMAZING! The photos alone of the teams of horses pulling the old iron fish through the streets of NYC are worth it. You can bet your bottom dollar that those interior 'souvenirs' are distributed throughout the UK and the USA. I contend that untold 1000's of relics are sitting in basements and barns throughout the West, many not having been touched/re-discovered for 75-100 years!
My only complaint is these videos don’t last long enough. Which means I have to binge watch a dozen a night. Oh the struggle. Great channel.....
I love this channel. I've been looking for history like this!! I will binge every last episode and continue to watch everthing you post. I just want to say thank you Mark. You're the man!!
Absolutely loving your channel Mark. Thank you.
Ha!
I worked on a fishing trawler out of Harwich in 1996, the Shipwash sandbank was favourite fishing ground. Sometimes when crossing the sandbank at low tide the boat would touch bottom too.
Absolutely remarkable what you find Dr Felton.You do History and honor with these videos!
You really do an awesome job of pronouncing german and other foreign words. Hats off!
Wow. So interesting to think of the technology of a submarine being moved around by huge teams of horses. Such a fascinating time of advancement - electricity, steam, gas, diesel, radio, radar, the dawn of air power, and then to the moon and back within 60 years.
Yes, amazing advances in technology in such a short time. Only one answer for that. Obviously it had to be aliens. Juan and Fernando Rodreguez, to be exact.
Your fascinating by your stupid comment grow up
The obscurity of the subject matter is a dominant facet of the gems you offer. Well done.
Informative,and educational i was born and raised in Manhattan a block from central park at 71st Street and had no idea of this historical occurrence. Thanks
Six German U-boats were sailed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard by USN crews in 1919. They visited ports on the East Coast in support of Victory Bond sales to retire war debt. Later the Navy decided that they would be useful as recruiting tools. One boat (UC-97) transited the St. Lawrence Seaway and four of the five Great Lakes. Another boat (UB-88) conducted an epic voyage down the East Coast, across the Gulf of Mexico, up the Mississippi River as far as Memphis, then sailed through the Panama Canal and up the West Coast.
UC-5 Featured in one of my small uni assignments about the display of WWI U-Boats in the Thames. Thanks for the vid!
$1,000.00 Bond got you a Pickelhaube? In 1917's currency value?! So I guess they've always been ludicrously expensive.
Inflation
I figured the germans wouldve equipped their soldiers with something cheaper than $1000 helmets.
though that bond is repayable with interest after a certain period of time, between 15 and 25 years at between 3.5% and 4.25%. initially the bonds guaranteed you would be repaid in a certain weight of gold by weight set at the gold price at the time of purchase (about $20 per troy ounce at the time of the first issue of bonds) assuring investors that their holding would not be devalued if the value of the dollar crashed, but the government later defaulted on paying out the bonds in gold. a $1000 bond would pay out in 15 years just over $1500.
I love the fact that the stories are very detailed and best of all................NO WATERMARKS.................like other channels
Really shows the leap in technology made in such a relatively short timespan, when you see the reliance then on teams of horses of such numbers used to haul the hull.
Hey mark, great video.
Great stuff as always Dr. Felton. Very glad I came across your channel sometime back.
If it's Mark Felton.... it's going to be interesting.
i’m from new york and this is the first time i’ve heard of this story. great video. i hope you can do a part 2 and let us know what happened to it
Thank you Mr Felton - another great video.
It ended up in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1919- it was tested at length after being fully assembled again- then used for scrap. The British didn't want it back as they already had enough captured subs of all types at the end of the war.
UC-5 weighed less than 200 tons surfaced. She was designed to operate in coastal waters strictly as a minelayer, carrying A max load of twelve mines- she could not fire torpedoes. By almost all standards- .she was one of the most successful warships in history! At only 200 tons she sank - from August 1915 to March 1916- 30 ships- almost 40,000 tons and damaged 7 more at over 20,000 tons. A British tank which saw heavy action in France was exhibited alongside the submarine.
She sank the destroyer HMS Velox and Submarine E 6.
navsource.org/archives/08/pdf/0846507.pdf
navsource.org/archives/08/pdf/0846508.pdf
Great video. It really shows how much research you put in your videos.
There is always something new to learn. Great video.
Great story thanks! A bit surreal seeing teams of horses pulling a U Boat!
Interesting and informative vid. I'd like to see you do a collab with The History Guy. You often cover similar topics, and he also has a great presentation style.
Great footage as always. I’m amazed how you find appropriate footage for your videos.
British sailor radio distress call in WWI: “ Help us! We are sinking!!!”
German radio operator: “Vhat are you sinking about?”
Another great episode. I marvel at the crews of the smaller submarines. It would have been quite crowded in UC5 with a crew of 14.
So I've just realised how many of your documentaries I've watched & hadn't subscribed to your channel!! That has now been rectified, I apologise for being late, 😊
Keep up the great work Mark.
Great video. Your subjects are very unique. I am happy to have found your channel.
I never knew of this, but I remember a ww2 u-boat, the “U 505” was stationed at the Chicago museum of science & industry, with daily tours, (one could look through the periscope at a parking lot) back in the late 60s, when I was about seven years old......(have no idea what became of it either, though it probably could be found out, if one asks the right people at the museum, or something)....
Amazing videos! The level of detail is just right
Remarkable. Imagine seeing a horse drawn team dragging a 30 ton or so section of an enemy submarine up a main city street?! Thanks again Mark, you never fail to amaze.
Very interesting (as usual)! I hope the mystery of the U-boat's disappearance can be solved.
Yes, it would be interesting to know and have some closure.
I am addicted to this channel !
@Mark Felton Productions Could you please do a video on the WWI U-boat that is in Lake Michigan off Chicago. The U-boat was used at Great Lakes Naval Academy north of Chicago from 1919 until the early 1920’s the U-boat needed a overhaul the decision was made to sail it to a training area off of Chicago then use it for target practice. The U-boat was located a few years ago by AT&T running underwater phone lines from Chicago to Michigan. The U-boats location is secret the plan is to salvage it put on display in Chicago next to the WWII U 505.
Great video Mark keep up the good work.
My grandmother saw that u-boat she always spoke about it!
Awesome bits of info! Thank you man
Simply amazing part of WW One history! Thanks
This channel is awesome I learn so many cool facts
Wonderful footage, Thank You!.
You should do a video about how u boats would help rescue people they had sunk. Give them water and tow the lifeboats towards land. Explain how this culminated in the Laconia Incident and why they stopped rescuing people.
Bretton Ferguson they soon stopped rescuing survivors and went to machine gunning them , there is at least one confirmed story of a u boat captain towing a life boat and with survivors on the sub deck but they were abandoned when the captain contacted the allies and a coastal bomber turned up and dropped bombs on the sub and life boat.
Yes, a lot of German U-boat skippers defied orders to kill survivors.
@@TheTeufelhunden68 where there still was some honor full men
Well done Mark!!!
Excellent video. I'm supporting you.
what a story.Tanks Mark!
the lack of a skyline in manhattan is astounding in comparison to today
That's fascinating. Greetings from NY
@Jules Vallez I had a cuban neighbor a few years back who said exactly the same thing.
Quieres tu madre.
Brooklyn-Manhattan 2010 - that’s cute, idiot 🤪🤡
Ny sucks so bad that it swallowed the u boat
Best documentaries on youtube!
Very well done mr Felton!
I heard part of it got sent down to NC and is used as a smoker at Leons BBQ Bonds.
Odd double connection with Birkenhead here - the design of New York Central Park is based on Birkenhead Park, and a U Boat is currently on display at Woodside Ferry Terminal in Birkenhead.
Interesting and unique
Thanks mark
UC 5 has a devastating purpose in naval war, which shows from her record
Mines instead of torpedoes!!!!!
To: The AceDestroyer
1 day ago (edited)
You and Dr Mark Felton. Excellent docos well researched. You both seem to be able to correctly pronounce German names words etc to the standard most Germans would compliment you on .Well done
You should have your own TV show.
Loved it! Keep it up Mark!
Mark, so glad your videos haven't been mistakenly caught up in the Great UA-cam demonetization Purge of June 2019!!!
Another awesome video
Another great video Mark. I love that music at the beginning!
very cool video Mark. thank you
Again, an unbelievable ( ie "superb") video of another forgotten nugget of wartime history.....Mark how do you do it?
Great, another story local to Colchester :) My dad was commissioned nearby at HMS Ganges in the mid fifties, and from there served on HMS Cumberland. Keeping on the subject of submarines, they were testing cutting edge sonar equipment in the Atlantic and detected the Nautilus going underneath the ice in 1958. Probably not common knowledge that we were listening in so don't tell anyone ;)
Hi Mark, absolutely love your videos!! So informative, and historically accurate.....unlike some of the documentaries on some of the streaming services!!
Please take this as a compliment...your videos remind me of, 'The World at War'.....but with more in depth coverage.
Keep up the fantastic work!!
We need dr.felton history t shirts to spread the word!!!
Very interesting, well done.
Thanks Mark!
It's funny - when Mark said the bit about communities receiving artillery pieces, the first thing I thought of was one that is in a nearby town; then seconds later, he showed the very same one. It's in the town of Sierra Madre near L.A.
It’s in my garden. I’ll send pictures when my internet is fixed.
Oh, wait a second...
So how did you post this comment? By mail Pigeon I suppose?
Are selling "U-Buy-A-Bond" War Bonds.
Best of luck finding anything more about this U-Boat, I wouldn't doubt it wasn't completely scrapped out and back then record keeping wasn't given much a priority
Oveida Sinclair well that and we aren’t germans so we don’t have a obsession with record keeping
@@opairsoft8100 Oh, my; you're SO wrong, and on different levels, too. Google the "12 Steps program" and see if you can see what I mean when you read "Step 1."
A World War II U-boat was put on display at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry in the 60's
Yes, the U505, and it is still there!
This was a WWI U-boat.
I currently live in NYC and this is complete news to me. I have been to every museum and park in the city, yet have never seen or heard of a captured WWi German U-boat. Sheep’s meadow would be a lot better if there were. I am going to ask around about this though.
Awesome video as usual
My grandfather said it was scrapped after the war .He lived there all his life
Interesting. I had never heard of this sub. Perhaps a story on the WWI U-boat rusting away in the Thames Estuary. UB 122, I believe is the consensus.
Mark this may be a picture of uc5 in 1919. I say "may" because the description is not very descriptive I mean I'm assuming it's the date of the pic but it could be the date it was taken into a collection or something. At any rate it is shown nesting post war with a couple other Germans subs at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. It's not something any American should be proud of but we're famous for forgetting our wars and warriors so it's not strange that u can get a few articles on the sub and nothing of her final disposition. So she did make it past the war and was apparently sea worthy even after being cut up. Sailors (and others) luv souvenirs so I gotta think someone walked home with something. Besides this any ship sorta goes into fire sale mode before decommissioning. All the neighboring ships drop by and swipe hatches, electrical gear and what not it's standard. I was next to "Might Mo" when she was retired the last time and she got worked over pretty good. So I'm sure the little sub lived on in pieces. On the other hand their were other German subs on hand by wars end so she wasn't unique. Like the X files, the answer is out there. The Navy luvs record keeping so the final fate of UC5 is known. Maybe I'l drop the public affairs people a line sometimes ya get lucky with these things.
UC5 is shown in the last two photos
www.navsource.org/archives/08/08465.htm
Afraid that isn't the UC-5. The information on that page is speculation. Those four boats are the U-117, the UC-97, the UB 88 and the UB-148. (Ref - another view of the same group: navsource.org/archives/08/500/0843206.jpg )
Incredible Story!