Id. warship

[Polar bear]

hi,

The picture was taken in spring 1941, when she was still the "Dubrovnik". Later the vessel carried other camouflage-schemes.

I wonder whether that's true. The three soldiers in front of the ship seem to wear German uniforms and the armoured car on the left side seems to be German. Could the picture be taken in the Fall of 1943 with the still Italian ship ?

greetings, the pb

[kgvm]

Yes, it's a German armoured car and German soldiers. But why not? The Germans met with the Italians which attacked along the coast at Dubrovnik, but they came to Kotor, too. In the Bundesarchiv is a good number of pictures showing the Yugoslavian vessels there, taken in 1941 by Arndt, very probably a German war reporter (PK-Berichter).
And: in September 1943 the "Premuda" was at Genua, the background simply doesn't fit for this port.

[Polar bear]

hi,

In the Bundesarchiv is a good number of pictures showing the Yugoslavian vessels there, taken in 1941 by Arndt, very probably a German war reporter (PK-Berichter). And: in September 1943 the "Premuda" was at Genua, the background simply doesn't fit for this port.

I agree that the picture wasn't taken at Genoa and that your arguments make sense but Arndt's picture shows a different camouflage (?), as well.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... chiffe.jpg

greetings, the pb

[kgvm]

Yes, but it's the other side of the ship, so the scheme might have been different on both sides - the ships didn't leave the port in April 1941, so this might make sense?

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Dunkerque or Strasbourg ??

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Sturm78

[kgvm]

"Strasbourg".

[Sturm78]

Thank you, kgvm

Regards Sturm78

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Can anyone identify these Finnish ships ??

Images from SA-Kuva archive (54950-51183)
Sturm78

[Ruotsinsalmi]

In the first photo is one of the VMV:s on the dock. Here is something to read about them. http://www.scribd.com/doc/27786480/The- ... eng-Jaakko.
The VMV:s (in finnish Vartiomoottorivene) were very reliable and multipurpose boats, IMHO there should have been many more of them. Some of them served as motortorpedoboats, later many of them were equipped with 40 mm Bofors and 20 mm Madsen, some boats had 3 Madsens.

In the other photo there is three finnish motor torpedo boats, on the left you can see one of the four Thornycroft boats, behind it is an italian made MAS-boat, one of two boats bought in 1920, and in the center of the photo is finnish made experimental boat, witch had Thornycroft hull with italian type torpedo dropping equipments.

Here you can read more of them. http://smallcrafthistory.weebly.com/vmv.html

Pekka

[Sturm78]

Thank you very much for your help, Pekka

Regards Sturm78

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Any idea about this ship ??

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Sturm78

[Peter K.]

... it´s a Artilleriefährprahm of the very rare type A-C2.
More information you will find there:
http://historisches-marinearchiv.de/pro ... eibung.php

[Sturm78]

Thank you very much for your help, Peter K.

Regards Sturm78

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Any idea about this small boat ??

Image from SA-Kuva archive (56231)
Sturm78

[Ruotsinsalmi]

According to war diary of Merivoimien Esikunta (Headquarter of Finnish Naval Forces) 6.10.1941 http://digi.narc.fi/digi/view.ka?kuid=3612386, finns found near Äänislinna (Petrozavodsk) one motortorpedoboat, which was missing the propeller and the transmission was broken.
Could it be a 40' Thornycroft or some russian version of it? AFAIK finns never repaired the boat?
Here is an inside photo of it (SA-Kuva nr. 56230)

Pekka