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In 1940 during the German occupation of Norway the Kriegsmarine took over two merchant ship building at the Moss shipyard. The two ships Rio X and Rio Y were completed as motherships for small 11m mine disposal boats, and were used to clear mines for U-Boats and other warships from the Norwegian coastal waters as well as the Baltic.
MRS-25 was mines and sunk while MRS-26 was completed only in 1944 and was used in 1945 as transport to evacuate troops and civilians fleeing the Russian advance. As such, the ship was attacked by Russian bombers, and on the first attack the ship managed to shoot down two bombers with no damage, but a second attack resulted in the sinking of the ship.

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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"

Nice work!

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Novice,
Few errors/missing still remain


look MRS-25 as well

Thank you Colombamike for your input. Some of the things you marked are indeed missing. As you know (probably) my main interest are merchant ships, and this one was the first warship (of a sort) I did for nearly 10 years. I will update my drawing of course.

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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"

Image has been updated

Mast wires I left alone as my source images showed it to be like that.

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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"

You have not lost your touch Novice. I'm still happy to use your ten year old drawings as the basis for many others, including real life ships.

Very nice work Novice.
My only nitpick would be that the support structure beneath the gun tubs could do with some overhang shading.

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You are entirely correct. It should have been done, and I did thought these supports looked too bright

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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"

BTW you all should check the following link to see how the ship would have looked like if the war didn't interfere.

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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"

Looks spot on now.

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft