Messing about in boats

Attraction of the day was the Marine Museum. There were a number of post-WW2 museum ships ranging from a coastal submarine through fast patrol boats to a destroyer. The displays covered the rise of the German Navy from before there was a Germany, through when there were two, to the current day.

 A Seehund 2 man sub from late-WW2. One of the few WW2 exhibits.

SMS Seydlitz got hit several times during the Battle of Jutland, once on a gun barrel, and here it is!

These are plates from the infamous Tirpitz: 8" and 6". They were used for penetration testing after the war which is where the 'oles come from.

Ooh. 'Ello sailor...

Destroyer, minesweeper, sub, fast patrol boat.

We biked past a few large bunker-like constructions that I think may be air-raid shelters. I'll look 'em up for tomorrow. [Edit - they are.] We also biked past several small completely unlike-bunker constructions which you can see now.

Aside from the navy, Jade/Wilhelmshaven's claim to fame is that it hosts Germany's only south facing beach.