Perhaps interesting to know that the 'Hohenfels' was scuttled in 1941 at Bandar Shapur by its crew and salvaged by the British. They used it then until 1944 as Military Transport 'Empire Kamal'. In 1944 it was trasferred to the Dutch and used until 1947 by KNSM as 'Van Ruidael'. In 1947 it was sold ...
I hope the slip of the offtopic is allowed, but Yes I am intending to be here a regular visitor. I hope to be of any assistance in the historical sence of the way. I might be helpfull to you all for that. My main thing is Military History with a bit more interest in WW2. But I grew up in a shipbuild...
That is correct. she started here live as Koning der Nederlanden, when rebuild into a floating battery she would have been named Neptunes. Though like you said it could be she was named earlier Neptunes but I've call here Koning Der Nederlanden because I drew here to that standaard, and drew here a...
Very nice, The avico "Grille" was around from 1935 until 1951 (yes it survived the war). The furst time the ship was officially used as state yaght was on May 30th, 1936 during a fleet parade to commemorate the Battle of Skagerrak, followed by a cruise to Reijkjavik. Mostly it was used by Blomberg. ...
I do not know if this is the correct place to add this, or the correct way to do this, but I do not see a possibility to send a pm to ALVAMA. On the internet I found a drawing with the name of Alvama as the maker of it, showing the ship of the line Koning der Nederlanden, 1821 The dating 1821 combin...
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