French Batteries around Bray Dunes

[dirk Peeters]

which year is your photo Jean ?
and congratulations i searched a long time for this

[dirk Peeters]

here is the google situation

and this is the crested eagle in 1940

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[dirk Peeters]

so this is impossible the same ship

the more i think of it is that we have more than one bttr
look also how that wreck is placed in the sea
it points to the land

[dirk Peeters]

here a google

and it s exactly the same situation in 1940

so now i m pretty convinced there where more french guns .. at least one at Malo
look at the angle to the sea

what do you think?

[dirk Peeters]

or could the angles play us tricks ?

[dirk Peeters]

Here the Crested eagle in good health

and here the ship under the gun

i m convinced this is another ship

[dirk Peeters]

For Kurt
I ll think your pictures are these two
One for the moment unknown

[dirk Peeters]

found on an english forum
i believe these two are the two from Kurt

[jopaerya]

Hello Dirk

I think this is the sanatorium with the same ship in front of the beach .

Photo = Ebay

Regards Jos

[jopaerya]

Could be this one ?? http://dkepaves.free.fr/html/clan_macalister.htm

[dirk Peeters]

hahaha these ships are playing tricks us
You are right
so all the guns are the same and at the zuydcote semaphore
look here for our ghost ship ....
to the right of the Adroit

to the left of the Adroit

without our ghostship

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passing the Adroit

and a last one

and now with you re picture at Zuydcote
it looks like that wreck (if it is a wreck) was still sailing around
it is not the only one
The Hordst did the same
i m gonna be extremely carefull with these boats

[dirk Peeters]

yep you are right so it is the Clan macalister
Two days for searching for nothing , only a lot of pictures searched out

[dirk Peeters]

no kidding it looks really this boat was sailing along after the crew left it if i read it right ?

what appears to me very strange
the sanatorium on your picture appears to be unharmed Jos ... wasn t it bombarded ? or was that only in 1944 ?

[jopaerya]

Hi Dirk

I am not a specialist on shipwrecks , but it looks to me the L'Adroit was sunk at Malo les Bains , on some
picture's you can see the town of Dunkirk . So the ship behind the destroyer must be a other ship .

Regards Jos

[raffaz]

Hello Dirk

For me the 3 x 16.4 cm gun as we can see on the picture's in this Topic are all from Batt de Bray Dunes
please note that this battery used special steel pivot system , so you wil not find any concrete emplacements .
The B. d Bray Dune was located right from the sanatorium , as you can see on the documents.

Regards Jos

Hi jopaerya, if possible can you tell me where the maps you show in the message above are originally from? Particularly the second map.
Thanks, HR