{"id":14605,"date":"2023-04-30T18:59:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T16:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/welovekiel.com\/last-ride-u-17-from-kiel-through-the-kiel-canal-to-the-technology-museum-sinsheim-speyer-14605\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:05:21","slug":"last-ride-u-17-from-kiel-through-the-kiel-canal-to-the-technology-museum-sinsheim-speyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/welovekiel.com\/en\/last-ride-u-17-from-kiel-through-the-kiel-canal-to-the-technology-museum-sinsheim-speyer-14605\/","title":{"rendered":"Last trip for U 17 from Kiel through the Kiel Canal to the Technik Museum Sinsheim Speyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last trip for U 17 from Kiel through the Kiel Canal<\/a> via Rotterdam and the Rhine to the Technik Museum Sinsheim Speyer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is where the long journey for the submarine U 17 starts in Kiel on April 29, 2023. It started early on Saturday morning at around 6 a.m., on a pontoon, pulled by the two tugboats Teddy and Noorcat. Because the submarine U 17 (ship identification S 196) of the class 206 A was already decommissioned in 2006 by the German Navy. And in the past few weeks, among other things, all weapon systems have been removed in the Kiel shipyard. U 17 could no longer drive under its own power and therefore had to be transported on a pontoon.<\/p>\n

Numerous spectators along the Kiel Canal<\/h2>\n

Despite the early hour, there were numerous spectators at the Kiel Canal who didn’t want to miss the last U 17 trip. After a short trip from the east bank of Kiel on the Kiel Fjord<\/a> to the canal lock in Holtenau, the submarine was locked in the Kiel Canal. At around 8 a.m. the lock gate opened and U 17 could begin the journey through the Kiel Canal to Brunsbüttel. Here in Kiel you could follow the last trip of U 17 from Kiel and through the canal from numerous locations, including in the Wik when entering the lock chamber of the Kiel Canal, from the landing stage of the Adler I canal ferry when leaving the lock chamber , from three canal bridges (Olympiabrücke, Prinz-Heinrich-Brücke and Alte Levensauer Hochbrücke) as well as in the further course of the transport from many other points along the Kiel Canal. More photos from April 29, 2023: Picture gallery U 17 in the Kiel Canal and the Kiel Fjord<\/a><\/strong> (Shipspottingmag.com)<\/p>\n\n\t\t