- TITLE
- German U-boat (U-516) approaching Loch Eriboll
- EXTERNAL ID
- PC_DAVID_HIRD_03
- PLACENAME
- Loch Eriboll
- DISTRICT
- Eddrachillis and Durness
- OLD COUNTY/PARISH
- SUTHERLAND: Eddrachillis
- DATE OF IMAGE
- 1945
- PERIOD
- 1940s
- SOURCE
- David Hird
- ASSET ID
- 22167
- KEYWORDS
- Word War II
Second World War
World War Two
WWII

This photograph shows the German military submarine, or U-boat, U-516, approaching Loch Eriboll. The U-boat is flying her black flag of surrender and crew members can be seen assembled on the bridge. The photograph was taken from an RAF aircraft on 10 May 1945.
U-516 was by far the most successful of the Loch Eriboll U-boats, having sunk or damaged seventeen vessels comprising over 99,000 tons of Allied shipping. She was moved to Lisahally, Northern Ireland, for 'Operation Deadlight', the scuttling of all the surrendered German U-boats near the end of World War II.
Loch Eriboll is the deepest sea loch in the United Kingdom, once used as an important naval anchorage. It was an important German U-boat surrender rendezvous point in May 1945 when over thirty U-boats came into the loch.