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Peter K.

Hallo ANDREAS! Die (sehr schöne) Aufnahme zeigt meiner Meinung nach das Torpedoboot G10 im Dienst der Reichs-/Kriegsmarine zwischen dem Umbau 1928-1931 (durchgehende Back statt Kuhl, etc.) und dem Umbau 1938-1939 (noch keine Hütte hinter vorderem Schornstein, fehlendes Dete-Gerät (G10 als einziges B...

Hello! Of course, you are right - but the situation is also a bit curious! TA11 was commissiond for the German Navy on 05.04.1943 under command of Kptlt.Quedenfeldt. The boats belongs to the 4. Geleitflottille under Kpt.z.S. v.Kamptz, which was formed in march 1943 at La Spezia. In august 1943 Kptlt...

Hello @ all! LINDAU ex BAUDOUINVILLE building yard S.A. JohnCockerhil,, Hoboken building no. 675 13761 BRT, 159,46/165,11 x 20,60 x 7,85 m, 11400 PSe = 17,5 kn, 2 x B & W diesel engines, 19900 nm/17 kts/1711 t oil owner Cie. Maritime Belge, Antwerpen commissioned on 14.06.1939 as Belgian motorpa...

Hello GV! GIORGIO: I found this ship at the KTB Seetra Livorno on 25.09. as GEORGIO, but I think it´s the same. It was unloading! On 28.09. it was still at Livorno, but large parts of their crew was missing after a heavy Allied air attack during the night 24./25.09. On 02.10. at 23.00 o´clock GEORGI...

... I forgot to mention the captains of R189:

Oblt.z.S. Zeitler
Ob.fähnrich z.S. Zietlow (i.V.)


Peter K.

Hello! Here is what I found .... R189 building yard: Burmester, Burg-Lesum building number: 2509 commissioned on 24.06.1942 sister boats: R151-188, R190-193 110/126 t, 34,40/35,4 x 5,55 x 1,38/1,50 m, height 3,13 m 1.800/1.999 PSe = 23,5/21,0 kn, 1.679 sm/10 kn, 649 sm/21 kn, 106 t oil 2 MWm 6zyl. 4...

Na, dann schick´ ich ´mal liebe Grüße an die Landsmänner aus Nähe Wien ...

Peter K.

Hello DEJAN! ... difficult question, but I found the following: K-Flottille 411 Flottillechef: Oblt. Heirich HILLE Gruppenführer: Oblt. Johann Fischer, Oblt. Ernst Jahn, Lt. Karl-Heinz Herrlich Originally the flottilla consists of 60 MOLCH and 350 men, but due to Allied air superority the flottilla ...

Hello awaygood! Very interesting posting - thanks a lot for sharing this iformation! I would like to learn more about this german anti-infrared-coating, because I haven´t heard anything about it before! Any other sources, books, documents, etc ... I would take anything, because I want to update an e...

Of course RANGITANE was sunk by KOMET (EYssen)!!!

I think it´s too late for me today ....

Peter K.

I know of 45 silver bars, which were on RANGITANE. when she was sunk by THOR (Eyssen).

Peter K.

Hello BEPPE! No real help, only some thoughts .... I know, that the 12,7 cm S.K. C/34 mounted at 12,7 cm M.P.L. C/34 was equipped until gun no. 209 with the pankratisches Schartenzielfernrohr C/47 (P.Sch.Z.C/47). The later guns were equipped with a binokularem Zielfernrohr C/1 (B.Z.C/1). BTW, S.K. m...

Hello! crew 22 born on 23.01.1904 in Nübel, Schleswig last rank Kapt.z.S. since 01.07.43 RK since 24.09.44 until 03.40 commander of S.V.K.-Verband 04.40-08.42 commander of 3. MS-flottilla 08.42-04.44 OKM/SWa I 04.44-end commander of 1.Sicherungs-Division also commander of evacuation staff over the S...

Hello BRYAN! I could recommend: Gerhard Hümmelchen, Die deutschen Schnellboote im Zweiten Weltkrieg ISBN 3-8132-0487-1 It covers well the war time patrols and there is also some information about commanders. Greetings from Austria Peter K. PS. Is someone is interested, there are some auctions by me ...