At least this one is real
 

Salvaged from a German uboat (UB61), which sunk in 1917 before the Dutch coast at Terschelling.
Don't know where it is today, I'm trying to find out more about it.

http://www.duikteamzeester.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=161

(ps: it's not mine, just found a reference to it on a Dutch site)

Quite a few of the Navy 1906 models ended up on the bottom of the ocean. Nice to see one that finally made it back.

Joe

That's how the Dutch navy got their first Lugers. Taken from U-Boats stranded at Dutch beaches during WW1.

Thor could restore this one.

Vlim:

It looks like a P-38 I once owned.

Sieger

I think he'd turn it down ;) I had a banner that was probably pristine before the owner left it in his pickup for 20 years ratteling around. Ted took one look and said, "Ed, it'll always look beat up". In other words, he'd have to have welding, drawing and finsihing for a gun that would cost more than it would be worth....

Maybe for a 1904 Navy it would be worth it :)


Ed

I wouldn't want it..The top is missing off the holster!

Actually it's amazing the thing looks as good as it does, a German Submarine interior is a pretty caustic brew of chemicals.

Jerry Burney

Geez Gerben! You really should clean your guns once in a while. And never store them in the holster!!

Maybe!
 

Maybe it's an 04?? ;) best to all, til..lat'r....GT

I wonder if the magazine is any good? Well, maybe not. The spring and the pin would probably be gone.
Big Norm

A treasure like that deserves a suitable display... :thumbup:

Interesting piece, i'd be happy to own it. hehe :D

Very interesting. Thanks for showing for us.
Douglas

Wow!! Just see this one. An excellent example of "Dutch Lugers usually come with rust"

A follow-up. I had the opportunity to study another navy holster/stock combination that made it back to the surface. Sadly the guns (yes, guns) had rusted away completely, so did the loading tools (just a heap of rusty residue in the pocket) and the cleaning rods. The leather itself was in a relatively good condition and the wood stock was still looking nice, although the attaching iron and the ID disk had rotted off. The crown/M was clearly visible.

The stocked holster was complete with it's carrying loops and the back plate of a magazine pouch. It came from a wooden crate that had 8 or 10 navy rigs in it, all in a similar state (iron parts gone, leather, wood and brass ok). One of the stocked holsters is now on display at a Dutch shipwreck museum.

Since we are on the subject of submarines, I was in my mom's hometown of Derry Northern Ireland this summer and heard an obsure story of 19 German subs that showed up there at the end of WWII. Shortly there-after Royal navy then took them out to the harbor and sunk them where they still lie today. There are plans underway to raise one of them. I don't know if anyone else finds this interesting, but as a wreck diver I thought this was very cool, and share this bit of history with anyone ho may care.
Here is a related story.
http://www.derryjournal.com/journal/...oat.4324229.jp
My uncle took some pictures as a kid. If I can I will get scaned copies to post. When he told this story he said the subs where lined up in the harbor like stacks of firewood.
Would be cool to see what kind of weaponry could be recoverd from this site.

Nice to see the word Derry and not Londonderry.

Jim, Surely they would not have scuttled the subs with weaponry such as pistols aboard?

Jerry Burney

I would not we suprised. I think we have all seen pictures of discarded weaponry.

Too much history in my family to use that term. I went there every summer when I was a kid in the late 60s and early 70s. saw some pretty hairy stuff back then, but that is for another forum.