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by Capu Rossu
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 ...
by Capu Rossu
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...
by Capu Rossu
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 ...
by Capu Rossu
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
by Capu Rossu
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...
by Capu Rossu
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)...
by Capu Rossu
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 :...
by Capu Rossu
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 ...
by Capu Rossu
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 ...
by Capu Rossu
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...
by Capu Rossu
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...