Hre's a new "What's this?"

[steveh11Matrix]

???

[Twotribes]

Mayday float?

Some grounded ship trying to pretend to a tree.

[Subchaser]

Looks like one of German destroyers... somewhere in Baltic…

[Ron Saueracker]

Minneapolis or New Orleans camouflaged at Tulagi after having their bows blown off at Tassaforanga.

Just looked at the pick....wrong! LOL Though I recognized the photo.[;)]

[tsimmonds]

The first and only entish warship, gunboat Fangornaburarum, anchored in the river Isen just following the fall of Isengard. The crew are ashore....we think.

[rkr]

Ilmarinen or Väinämöinen somewhere in Finnland's archipelago?

[steveh11Matrix]

ORIGINAL: rkr

Ilmarinen or Väinämöinen somewhere in Finnland's archipelago?

Correct! It's Väinämöinen, although I have to say Fangornaburarum is a much more entertaining answer!

Here's another shot in more conventional vein...

[Tiornu]

Isn't she adorable? You can't miss that giant Q-tip in German designs at that time.
I have it on good authority that neither Vainamoinen nor Ilmarinen ever served in the Pacific.

[steveh11Matrix]

Well, I never actually said that they did... [:)]

When I found that photo of her in camouflage I just had to post it!

Steve.

[String]

ORIGINAL: Tiornu

Isn't she adorable? You can't miss that giant Q-tip in German designs at that time.
I have it on good authority that neither Vainamoinen nor Ilmarinen ever served in the Pacific.

neither was it a german design, It was a finnish ship

[steveh11Matrix]

But it was a German design. According to http://www.hut.fi/~jaromaa/Navygallery/ ... oastal.htm , the design was by Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw, a dutch 'front' company for a German 'clandestine' design company.

Steve.