Small Ships

[Rowdy36]

Another Police boat from Austal for the Queensland Police:

[WhyMe]

These three French designed and built patrol boats have been serving in Uruguayan Navy since 1981.

[Trojan]

Very nice!

[eswube]

Splendid job!

[Novice]

Beautiful work on these small ships.

[Portsmouth Bill]

Nice One

[Gollevainen]

yes indeed...now, Perhaps more of the french Combadantte type of boats??

[WhyMe]

Thanks, everyone

Here's yet another small ship with big history. She was one of the FM class coastal minesweepers dozens of which were built in Germany during WW1. After the war the FM-13 was transferred to Romania. Named Socrates she served as a passenger steamer and a tugboat on the Danube river.


In 1941 she was bought back by Kriegsmarine and got converted to a river minelayer Xanten carrying 20 mines and armed with two 20mm guns. A year later she got modified again, this time to be a submarine chaser (Uboatjager). Armed with 88mm, 37mm and 20mm guns UJ-116 served in Black Sea where she sunk two Soviet submarines. In 1944 she was scuttled near Constanca after the Germans withdrew.

[denodon]

Lovely drawing of a fascinating little ship. You really do get an idea of how flexible some of these designs must have been to last a long time serving in so many roles they were never originally purposed for.

[WhyMe]

Thanks!

Here's an Uruguayan naval tug Banco Ortiz: