Shipbucket

I thought it was time to get a bit of focus on another largely forgotten type of ships that inhabits the worlds navies and coast guards.
To start out here's the Danish Sea Truck class.

The drawing shows her somewhere in the middle of her career, just after she was taken over by the navy. As with most little known classes, getting a positive fix on when the various changes were made can be pretty much impossible.
Anyway, she was build in 1979 and operated by the Danish environmental authorities but manned by RDN personnel. In 1996 she was handed over to the navy. Despite her looks she is not capable of acting as a landing ship. The bowdoor is part of the original oil recovery system.
They're beginning to show their age and are considered operationally obsolete, yet they remain in service since there's no replacements in sight at the moment.

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That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

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Finding good photos of such ships must be difficult. Sweet looking and a very welcome break from warships!

Not as hard as you might think. The RDNs library is digitizing their entire photo collection and making them available in a database of theirs, so as long as I'm dealing with Danish vessels I'm pretty much guaranteed to find something, no matter how obscure the ship might be.

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I think it could use a little more shading under a few things, notably the overhang (I think there's an overhang) over the bridge

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Probably posting from and iPhone and naval terms befuddle it. If I say a ships' hill, you know what I meant.

^Better?

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Yes, but I think perhaps extending it down as seen here:
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Probably posting from and iPhone and naval terms befuddle it. If I say a ships' hill, you know what I meant.

But it doesn't extend downwards on that draawing. That's a piece of piping for the NBC protection system.

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The second unit of the supply class. Only real difference is the different crane.

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Super

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Work in progress:
DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms