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Great work!

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It's amazing to see the drawing evolve in this beautiful series. I bow to a master.

F7 was comissioned in 1937 and was one of two Flottenbegleiter built by Blohm & Voss. Characteristically for F7 and F8 were the four evenly spaced portholes on the superstructure.


Like most of the ships of this class, F7 was rebuilt into a torpedo retrieval craft, but unlike F2 and F4, she retained her old hullform and the refits were less drastic.


With the war going on, it was a good time to make some propaganda movies. In "U-Boote westwärts!" (U-boats westward) F7 portraited a British destroyer. For that, her appearance was altered: Fake guns and torpedo tubes were installed and superstructure and funnels modified.


With the end of the war approaching, F7 returned to the frontlines as an escort vessel once again. The main guns returned and the main mast made room for an elevated platfrom with 20mm quad.


She survived the war and was one of the ships given to the Soviet Union. The Soviets renamed her Buran and assigned her to the Baltic Fleet in 1946. Her career was relatively short and after a few years, in 1951, she was renamed Dubna and used as a target ship. She was finally stricken in 1956 and scrapped in 1957-1958.

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Great work!

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Marvelous thread!

It's a really nice thread with very well drawn vessels and good informative facts. I enjoy to watch this thread. Keep up the fantastic work

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Here are the last two of the series F8 and F10:




And unfortunately, that's it. Both were rebuilt as torpedo retrieval ships in 1940, but I have no information on how these modifications turned out or how the weapon outfit was changed. So if you have any information, let me know, it will be appreciated.

Both ships were given to Great Britain after the war and scrapped in the Netherlands in 1950.

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Great set of drawings here!

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Nice work!

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Great work. German Navy was always my favorite. Ausgezeichnet!


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