They look east over Eriboll, a vast sea loch where the last German U-boats surrendered at the end of the war, towards Ben Hope, the most northerly Munro.
It is believed it could be UB122, which was among more than 100 U-boats which surrendered at the end of the war and brought to the River Medway to be scrapped.
The U-boat was surrendered to Italy as a war reparation in 1919 and was scrapped at Fiume in 1920.
"Coming back to his home town he'll want to hear all the stories he's missed over the last 1,500 years, from the shirt factories, to the Undertones, from Dopey Dick to the U-boat surrender on the Foyle and then of course there are suggestions that an old enemy might be afoot in the shape of Colmcille's nemesis, the Loch Ness Monster.
Fortunes ramming attack was curtailed when it became apparent that the U-Boat was surrendering.
The remaining two U-boats, and, were surrendered to the United Kingdom and were broken up by 1921.
On 8 August the fleet's boats stormed Aboukir Island, which surrendered without a fight.
Within minutes of the British attack, Ceylon surrendered and boats from Magicienne sought but failed to take possession of her.
Our colleague C.J. Chivers, who is reporting on the carrier group's work, was taken on board the fishing boat after the pirates surrendered.
At the end of 1940, the family fled France (escaping to England by boat) before the government surrendered to Germany.
The Allied powers agreed that Germany's U-boat fleet should be surrendered without the possibility of return, but were unable to agree upon a course of action regarding the German surface fleet.
