Shipbucket

MS Königin Luise was a 2,000-passenger cruise ship built in 1934 for Hamburg America Line


During World War 2 the ship was acquired by the Kriegsmarine to be used as an auxiliary minelayer carrying 240 mines.
In September of 1941 she hit a Soviet mine near Finnish coast and sunk.

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Nice work WhyMe

indeed great ship and great drawing, we could see more of these kriegsmarines wartime improvisations

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Shipbucket mainsite, aka "The Archive"
New AU project "Aravala"

Very nice work WhyMe, its really good to see the military conversion alongside the original civil design so you can tell what changes were made.
Were the upper deck gangways used to load the mines?

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Very nice work!

On a side note, anyone else read the title of this thread and automatically think of the gunboat in The African Queen?

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB

This is the real story which was the inspiration for the movie "The African Queen":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_fo ... Tanganyika

Awesome work WhyMe.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

@WhyMe,
Very Dubious for the 1940-1941 ship-version to carry aft (near the aft-mast), a single 37mm/69 M1942 or LM42 model (=> in service by mid-1942 -1943 !)

Really nice drawing!

Thank you!
I don't know for sure but I bet that's exactly how it was done.
Good catch; the 37mm gun has been replaced with a correct version.

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