Shipbucket

Very beautiful design, not just he drawing, but the original ship as well. But that was the case with most of the ships, aircraft and vehicles used by Germany in WWII

Portsmouth Bill wrote:Very nice But I doubt if he was ever aboard much; as he seemed to be very uninterested in anything nautical. Still, several carefully placed magnetic mines may have saved everyone a lot of future grief.

Not quite, he was very interested in ships, and was particularly proud of his 'Kriegsmarine', such as the Bismarck and Scharnhorst. He was rarely abourd ships as I understood, because he apparently got seasick very fast...

Just like Stalin had a stiffy for airplanes but he'd never be caught dead in one (particularly since his favorite method of assasination was to sabotage their aircraft).

I understand there was some movement in the 50s to preserve the ship, possibly even in Britain and France as a memorial to Hitler's atrocities, but in the end there was just little interest, though one of her boats remains as a private boat to this day.

klagldsf wrote:though one of her boats remains as a private boat to this day.

Yep, Motorboot 1 a.k.a Grillet:


Here's more info on the boat's fate

I inherited the helm wheel from the Aviso Grille after it was given to my parents as a wedding present by my father's cousin. He had worked on the docks in Deliware where the grille was dismantled in 1951. My parents honeymooned there and they brought the wheel back to Canada and had it made into a coffee table. We grew up with it all our lives but jut found out its origins 3 years ago from my mother.

I wonder what sort of schemes Hitler's planning this time?

Then again, he's probably too seasick to plan anything...

lukewarm wrote:I inherited the helm wheel from the Aviso Grille

Wow, that's quite a story! It must be pretty exciting to own such a piece of real history. Thanks for sharing it with us. Cheers!

Very interesting story; it make sme wonder if Hitler ever tried it as a helmsman; but:

'On land I am a hero, at sea I am a coward'
Adolf Hitler

That's one hell of a conversational piece you've got there. How do people react when you tell them that the ships wheel they're looking at was on Hitler's yacht?