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- Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: French tug VIGILANT
- Replies: 2
- Views: 149
Re: French tug VIGILANT
Hello, Le petit remorqueur Vigilante et non pas Vigilant a été mis en service avant 1914 non pas à la Direction de Port mais au service de la Défense Fixe ( de ce fait, je n'ai pas retrouvé la date). J'ai les caractéristiques suivantes : 12,00 x 4,00 x 1,50 m – 45 CV The small tugboat Vigilante and ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: French boom (defence) vessels and operation Torch
- Replies: 2
- Views: 151
Re: French boom (defence) vessels and operation Torch
Helllo, La gabare Persistante appareille de Casablanca le 17 janvier 1941 et rallie Dakar le 24 janvier. Elle demeure dans ce port jusqu'en octobre 1945. Pour les Antée et Puissante, l'ouvrage du Service Historique de la Marine consacrée à l'opération Torch et en particulier aux combats d'Oran ne me...
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: French tanker BITUME mined in 1941
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8547
Re: French tanker BITUME mined in 1941
Hello Platon Alexiades , dans son livre, Jean Michel Roche, pour des questions de places, n'a incorporé qu'une partie de ce que je lui avais donné. D : 779,213/1982,423 t - PL : 1200 t - 61,30/57,50 x 12,42/12,024 x 4,20 AR m - 1 mât tripode de 21,65 m - 2 ancres de 1780 kg, 1 de 480 kg et 1 de 395 ...
- Thu Nov 24, 2022 11:30 am
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: Greek Anastasios L.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 20850
Re: Greek Anastasios L.
Hello Aris,
Thank you, yours informations allows me to fill a hell of a hole' in the history of this ship.
I take good note of it and correct my file of this step.
Thanks again.
Regards
Alain
Thank you, yours informations allows me to fill a hell of a hole' in the history of this ship.
I take good note of it and correct my file of this step.
Thanks again.
Regards
Alain
- Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:08 pm
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: MARIUS CHAMBON
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2251
Re: MARIUS CHAMBON
Hello David, In the work of the Historical Service of the French Navy "Le Théâtre Méditerranéen - Tome I du 2 Septembre 1939 au 25 juin 1940", the Marius Chambon and Marseillais 3 tugs, both required, the Mare water tank and various barges towed by Navy tugs Laborieux, Cépet, Rhinocéros, G...
- Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:46 pm
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: Greek Anastasios L.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 20850
Re: Greek Anastasios L.
Hello Aris and Creese, In recent days, I have been working on the patrol boats built for the French Navy during WW I. And in particular by the two series of ships ordered in the USA and Canada. This ship is one of thirty-eight ordered on 10th june 1917 from Foundation Co. in Savannah (Georgia - USA)...
- Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:54 am
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: WHICH SHIP?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2778
Re: WHICH SHIP?
Hello, According with the Merchant Ship - 1942 edit by Talbot, this funne was the funnel of the Trelleborgs Anginya Aktieb (J. Malmros, Mgr) of Trelleborg (Sweden). In the Lloyd of 1939, a ship named Rigel belong to this company : Delivered in 11/1936 by Deutsche Werft of Hamburg - GRT : 977 - NRT :...
- Mon Feb 07, 2022 8:19 am
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: GRAAF VISART
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2899
Re: GRAAF VISART
Hello, Indeed, the word 'tench' is an insult but it is first and foremost the name of a river fish. This trawler had been built during the WWI as a patrol boat by the Compagnie Générale de Matériaux Naval in La Rochelle in 1918. After the war, she served as a fishing warden in Marseille and then as ...
- Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:17 pm
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: GRAAF VISART
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2899
Re: GRAAF VISART
Hello, Yes, it is Port Louis at the entrance to Lorient. The mine is probably German. Indeed, the French minefields were on the ocean side and not on the harbor side. In June 1940, the Luftwaffe laid magnetic mines in the access channels inside the roadstead. This is how the trawler La Tanche, with ...
- Tue Oct 08, 2019 4:48 pm
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: Maillé-Brezé
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13555
Re: Maillé-Brezé
Hello, Following the book "La Campagne de Norège" edited by the Service Historique de la Marine, the report of the commission of inquiry of the French Navy reports a balance sheet is 6 dead, 21 missing and 47 wounded. The Maillé Brézé was under command of capitaine de frégate Glotin. Regar...
- Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:17 pm
- Forum: Ship Forum
- Topic: French Loses in Vietnam
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9255
French Loses in Vietnam
Hello Andreas, I have just seen your question about the losses of French ships in Indochina. No ships was lost during 1940 - 1941 period. Here is a summary of the losses of navy ships during the wae. I have also a list of merchant ships for the same period. Light cruiser Lamotte-Picquet: Sunk on Jan...