Shipbucket

Well you'll all have to wait and see

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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"

AUGH!!! Patience was never one of my strong points. Which probably explains all my super glue incidents...

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The New Wolf's Shipyard
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So much anticipation!

Some excellent additions for sure. Lovely to see the more peaceful side of ships on these forums that so tend to be focused on weapons of war.

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Oh, I love these lovely funnels. Just amusing how much fuzz funnels without the ship beneath can create Looking forward to the revealing of the mysterious ship

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DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
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My formal guess is Ile de France, as built.

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#FJB

i second this.

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As some have guessed this is the Ile De France. A big and fast liner that was, until the Normandie arrived, the flagship of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, commonly known as the French line.

Ile De France as built



In late 1928 the French were exploring the idea of placing a seaplane on their liners to speed mail delivery. the idea was to launch the aircraft with the mails when the ship was about a 1,000 miles from her destination. In 1929 the Ile De France was equipped with a catapult and used the CAMS 37/10 aircraft. The aircraft was a special modification of the naval spotter plane of the time, only two were built



The Ile De France served during WW2 as a troopship, and after the war regained her position as flagship of the French Line, after the Normandie was lost in New York

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

Magnificent!

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The New Wolf's Shipyard
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Truly splendid! that's how passegner ships should be, cruise ships had lost that elegance nowadays.

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Sources and documentations are the most welcome.

-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
-Koko's carrier-based aircrafts of WWII
-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation