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Author:  WhyMe [ December 17th, 2016, 7:02 am ]
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MS Königin Luise was a 2,000-passenger cruise ship built in 1934 for Hamburg America Line
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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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Author:  Krakatoa [ December 17th, 2016, 7:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Königin Luise
Nice work WhyMe
Author:  Gollevainen [ December 17th, 2016, 8:23 am ]
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indeed great ship and great drawing, we could see more of these kriegsmarines wartime improvisations
Author:  Hood [ December 17th, 2016, 8:47 am ]
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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?
Author:  emperor_andreas [ December 17th, 2016, 12:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Königin Luise
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? :lol:
Author:  odysseus1980 [ December 17th, 2016, 3:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Königin Luise
This is the real story which was the inspiration for the movie "The African Queen":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_fo ... Tanganyika
Author:  Novice [ December 17th, 2016, 9:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Königin Luise
Awesome work WhyMe.
Author:  Colombamike [ December 17th, 2016, 9:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Königin Luise
@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 !)
:roll:
Author:  superboy [ December 18th, 2016, 9:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Königin Luise
Really nice drawing!
Author:  WhyMe [ December 20th, 2016, 6:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Königin Luise
Thank you!
Hood wrote:
Were the upper deck gangways used to load the mines?
I don't know for sure but I bet that's exactly how it was done.
Colombamike wrote:
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)
Good catch; the 37mm gun has been replaced with a correct version.
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