Good afternoon. Please tell me there are some sites devoted to french tankers: La Saone 12.202 brt, La Seine 12.202 brt, Rheinpfalz ex Storman, Breisgau ex Salome 13.140 brt,Pluviose 9.561 brt 1931? I
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TANZANIA
1) Patrol Boats
German KFK type (built during WW II)
30.9.1964 loaned by West Germany - all given back 1967
Rafiki, Papa - ex KW 4, 5
Uhuru, Salome - ex KW 9, 10 - 1967 sold in Keny
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Theo,
Thanks for the detailed description, highly valuable. A few details to discuss:
"22.Mai: In Rotterdam eingetroffen und zur Wilton-Werft verlegt."
This must be Wilton in Schiedam. This fit
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13140grt 18511dwt 175.0 x 21.8m
2 x diesel 13kn
blt Chantier France-Dunkerque (Yd 167)
1940 launched as SALOME
3/6/1940 scuttled
1941 completed for German Navy as BREISGAU
1948 ??, as SALOME
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Friends,
French Tanker SALOME (13291 BRT, built in 1940?) was one of the 126 ships sunk at Dunkirk during operation "Dynamo" on 02.06.1940.
Source: http://warsailors.com/forum/search.php?0,searc
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Hallo Alain
SUNNY ISLE and GETUIGT VOOR CHRISTUS sunk at Dunkirk during operation "Dynamo"
ans some more belgian ships
best regards
Axel
20.05,1940, (F) Schlepper HERCULE 1892 (216 BRT) + M
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Sorry - I didn't notice that the date on these were from Sept., (will have to pay more attention) but I'll go ahead and continue so that they're all together:
Hallo Jan-Olof
GREAT WORK
Thank you ve
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A few additions and differences noted from Jacky Messiaen "Pilotes et Remorqueurs dans le Tormente: Dunkerque Mai 40" (author, Broxeele, 2003)
20.5 cargo PAVON + bombe
21.5 torpilleur L'ADROIT + bo
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Hallo alltogether
here is my promised listing of ships (126) sunk during the operation dynamo.
The list is not complete, many lost ships are not included, or the list has ships included that were no
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