Mystery ship again

[Sardaukar]

This should be easy:

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

This should be easy:

Based on the ensign, USS Surrenderfish.

[Sardaukar]

No. [:D]

[AW1Steve]

Väinämöinen

[Gilbert]

Yes indeed, Finnish coastal defense ship.

Details are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_co ... %C3%B6inen

Gilbert

[Sardaukar]

Correct.

[Sardaukar]

It was quite well-armed for it's size.

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

It was quite well-armed for it's size.

I'll say, just based on the gig alongside for scale.

[Jorge_Stanbury]

Were "coastal defense" ships any good?
for what I have read, their WW2 service was not too distinguished, although to be fair, most were very obsolete by 1939

It seems that a couple fast DDs would had been more effective

[Sardaukar]

ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

Were "coastal defense" ships any good?
for what I have read, their WW2 service was not too distinguished, although to be fair, most were very obsolete by 1939

It seems that a couple fast DDs would had been more effective

Well, their role was not as much as warships, but basically mobile coastal artillery batteries. They were mainly meant to defence of Aland Islands. They'd get there, camouflage and act as coastal artillery. Aland Islands was demilitarized by old treaty, so there was no possibility to position coastal artillery there. Thus, these ships filled that void.

You get idea from this:

[HexHead]

That's downright sneaky.