mystery ship

[CobraAus]

the other ship icon on the left 2nd from top I think takes you Tech drawings the other Icons will take you to Tanks,transport, and air this is a very good site for detail if translated

cobra aus

[m10bob]

Great find,Cobra!!

[hueglin]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

I don't read Russian, but I just got this pretty thing from the same site Cobra linked to:

This is an English (or made in England) minelayer called the "Menskmen" - (transliterated)- it might sound a little different in English.

[hueglin]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

Russian patrol boat 1943 with 2 76mm guns (still in T34 turrets, and secondary arms of 12.7mm MG's.

This is Armoured Patrol Boat Project 1124 . I'm not certain from the "project" label if it was just a prototype or whether their was a class actually built.

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: hueglin

ORIGINAL: m10bob

I don't read Russian, but I just got this pretty thing from the same site Cobra linked to:

This is an English (or made in England) minelayer called the "Menskmen" - (transliterated)- it might sound a little different in English.

MANXSMAN!!!! Of course!!!!!!!...Thank you!!!!
(My wife's family is from the Isle of Man...)

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Erm yeah, but he was talking about the Tsugaru...

Nobody said otherwise. You feelin' O.K.?

Sorry, thought you thought... Nevermind, you know what I meant...[8D]

[el cid again]

ORIGINAL: hueglin

ORIGINAL: m10bob

Russian patrol boat 1943 with 2 76mm guns (still in T34 turrets, and secondary arms of 12.7mm MG's.

This is Armoured Patrol Boat Project 1124 . I'm not certain from the "project" label if it was just a prototype or whether their was a class actually built.

Not sure about this one, but several Russian Armored River Gunboats with tank turrets are being added now.
Cobra has given me some art to work with for the Russian Amur Flotilla - already added the Japanese gunboats with the 120mm guns - which Cobra finally got art for (in spite of my failure to scan for technical reasons - replacing motherboard on machine that works with scanners).

[mikemike]

ORIGINAL: hueglin

This is Armoured Patrol Boat Project 1124 . I'm not certain from the "project" label if it was just a prototype or whether their was a class actually built.

Russian/Soviet ship classes are designated officially by project numbers. They do it to this day, the Kirov class BCs are project 1144, the Typhoon SSBN's are Project 941 etc. Regarding the bronekaters as pictured, there were several hundred of these armored river gunboats, and they were extensively used all through the war. There was also a smaller type that carried only one tank turret. The bigger type later in the war usually exchanged the after turret for a Katyusha multiple rocket launcher.

[DuckofTindalos]

The Type 1125 only carried a single tank turret. Before the war they had T-26 and T-35 turrets, but T-34's got plugged in later.

[el cid again]

Turns out this ship was a WWI improvisation on the Volga River in European Russia/Ukraine - and probably not in service after the Revolution - never mind in WWII Far East. Too bad. She was pretty slow - but did carry a flight of 3 fighters in addition to 6 small recon flying boats. [Soviet Warship Development: Vol 1 p 22]