Id. warship

[Polar bear]

hi,

Admiral Scheer ??

no, it´s the DEUTSCHLAND. Both ADMIRAL SCHEER and ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE had a "tower mast", but this ship hasn´t one.

greetings, the pb

[Sturm78]

Thank you very much for your help, pb


Regards Sturm78

[Takao]

As a sidenote: The Admiral Scheer did receive a Deutschland type mast, but not until her reconstruction in 1940. However, we know that the ship in question is Deutschland, because she is showing her Spanish Civil War recognition stripes on her main gun turret.

[Sturm78]

Thank you, Takao, for your aditional information.

I need help to identify this German destroyer. I think it is a late-war image as this ship have some 3.7cm Flak M42 AA guns.

Image from EBay
Sturm78

[RonS]

I bought this photograph from Ebay. It just says Luftwaffe loaded on ship. I did not think the Kriegsmarine had any Aircraft Carriers apart from the un-finished Graf Zeppelin. And these aircraft seem to be mid 1930's aircraft?
Any idea what the ship is please?

[mescal]

RonS,

It's either USS Lexington or USS Saratoga

[Peter K.]

Thee German destroyer is Z 5 PAUL JACOBI as French DESAIX!

[Sturm78]

Thank you for your help, Peter K.

Regards Sturm78

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

I found this image on EBay. According to photocaption Fuchs Artillerie-Schulboot. Any information about this ship?

Sturm78

[Peter K.]

In my opinion Artillerieschulboot FUCHS (II) is correct. It was the former M 130: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_130_%281918%29 or http://www.forum-marinearchiv.de/smf/in ... l#msg74240

[Sturm78]

Thank you for your help, once more, Peter K.

I found this image on EBay. I guess M84, a Minensuchboot 1916 minehunter of WW1. Is this correct?

Sturm78

[vladalex]

Hi,
Looks like an Minensuchboot 1915 minehunter of WW1, ... ?
Regards,
VladAlex.

[Polar bear]

hi,

it is M 84 all right, but no boat of that time had minehunting capacity, they were only minesweepers.

The picture shows the boat with the so-called "Heckanbau" or "stern addition", indicating a point of time of 1936 or later

greetings, the pb

[vladalex]

Hi,
Thanks for this information Polar bear .
Please tell me if you Know, the device from starboard is not specially dedicated for hunting mines,
like in the sketch ?
Best Regards,
VladAlex.

[Polar bear]

hi, Vladalex,

the picture shows the gear for "mechanical" sweeping, not even the more advanced simulation sweeping where you tow a (large) buoy with noisemaker and a magnetic field.

greetings, the pb