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Wow, fantastic! Many thanks[&o][&o][&o][&o]!

K

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Here's some links for the zip files, ship side file and shil files included

Treasury Class:  http://martinalcock.powweb.com/usn/Taney.zip
Navajo Class: http://martinalcock.powweb.com/usn/Seminole.zip
Algonquin Class: http://martinalcock.powweb.com/usn/Algonquin.zip

i think someone needed a kikka

Looking for USCG Active/Argus/Thetis class shipside and shil. As always, help greatly appreciated!

Howdy,

Please see next thead down 'Standardized Art Set', the stock game Reliance is an Active class USCGC and that's how she was drawn. Set is soon to come. Hope you like.

JWE

ORIGINAL: JWE

Please see next thead down 'Standardized Art Set', the stock game Reliance is an Active class USCGC and that's how she was drawn. Set is soon to come. Hope you like.

Thanks! Forgot that it's called Reliance-Class in stock.

Hi, looking for artwork (side & shil):

Bougainville-Class (French aviso/colonial gunboat) - a member of this class, the Savorgnan de Brazza, served in the Indian Ocean. Pretty interesting ship class!


K

ORIGINAL: Kereguelen

Hi, looking for artwork (side & shil):

Bougainville-Class (French aviso/colonial gunboat) - a member of this class, the Savorgnan de Brazza, served in the Indian Ocean. Pretty interesting ship class!


K

If you can wait until tomorrow I have one already done, but it's at home and I'm out of town.

ORIGINAL: Kereguelen
Savorgnan de Brazza, served in the Indian Ocean.

When he arrved?

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Kereguelen

Hi, looking for artwork (side & shil):

Bougainville-Class (French aviso/colonial gunboat) - a member of this class, the Savorgnan de Brazza, served in the Indian Ocean. Pretty interesting ship class!


K

If you can wait until tomorrow I have one already done, but it's at home and I'm out of town.

Of course! Thanks!

ORIGINAL: Monter_Trismegistos

ORIGINAL: Kereguelen
Savorgnan de Brazza, served in the Indian Ocean.

When he arrved?

He was in India in July 1943, but he (lol, to keep the French terminology) came from from Madagascar. Don't know when he arrived in the Indian Ocean or where he came from then (probably Dakar).

K

There were two of these "colonial sloops" in the pacific as of December, 1941: Savorgnan de Brazza and Dumont-d'Urville. Both were under Vichy control.

One (forget which) was active around New Caledonia just pre-war but withdrew after the Gaulist take over (and under threat of HMAS Adelaide). Both spent most of the early war in Indochina waters and moved to allied controlled waters sometime in 1943. They went over to the Free French, were refitted, and spent some time as escorts in the Indian Ocean.

Very hard to get details on these ships.

Ok, arrived Madagascar in July 1943 and had been engaged in convoy duty in the South Atlantic before. Pretty interesting ship history, always a Free French vessel and even fought against its sistership, the Bougainville. Following text is from a French webside that list all ships of the French Navy in WW2:

Le Savorgnan de Brazza
Mis en service en 1932.
Faisant parti des Forces Navales d'Extrême-Orient, il rejoint la France à La Pallice en février 1940. Il participe à l'évacuation de la poche de Dunkerque en mai 1940. Saisi par la Royal Navy à Portsmouth le 3 juillet 1940, il est réarmé F.N.F.L. et commence ses missions d'abord à Dakar, lors du coup de force Franco-Britannique contre Vichy le 24 et 25 septembre 1940. Puis à Libreville où il met hors de combat son sistership resté fidèle à Vichy, le Bougainville. Il rejoint ensuite la mer Rouge, et entreprend une nouvelle action contre le pouvoir de Vichy en participant au blocus de Djibouti (juin 1941- mai 1942). Il est d'ailleurs attaqué par un Sous-Marin français de l'autre camp (le Vengeur). Il regagne finalement l'Angleterre par Le Cap, le 15 avril 1942. Il participe ensuite aux escortes dans l'Atlantique du Sud. Crédité d'une victoire pour la destruction d'un quadrimoteur Allemand le 19 mars 1943, il arrive à Madagascar en juillet 1943. Il finira la guerre au côté de l'Eastern Fleet dans le Pacifique Sud. Engagé par la suite en Indochine, il est condamné le 20 mars 1957.

You're going to make me crack open the books!

Le Savorgnan de Brazza was indeed under Free French Control throughout. The second Vichy colonial sloop in the pacific was Admiral Charner. I'll have to speak to me about this error.

The sloop involved around New Caledonia was Dumont-d'Urville. She left New Caledonia for Indo-china toward the end of September, 1941. Admiral Charner was also ordered to New Caledonia but turned back when Dumont-d'Urville retired.

Dumont-d'Urville moved to West African waters late in 1942 and went over to Free French in late 1943.

Admiral Charner remained in Indochina and was scuttled there in 1945.

The two Free French sloops, Savorgnan de Brazza and Dumont-d'Urville, were refitted in 1944 with increased light AA and some ASW capability, then used as convoy escorts, including periods in the Indian Ocean for at least one and probably both.

thread no more sticky ?

Whoops

ORIGINAL: Kereguelen

Hi, looking for artwork (side & shil):

Bougainville-Class (French aviso/colonial gunboat) - a member of this class, the Savorgnan de Brazza, served in the Indian Ocean. Pretty interesting ship class!


K

Here you go. The top pic and shil are set to the same scale as the standardised stuff being done.

Dixie will you post your other standardised ships on your web page before or after the whole set is released? I really liked your UK destroyers and carriers.

ORIGINAL: J Boomer

Dixie will you post your other standardised ships on your web page before or after the whole set is released? I really liked your UK destroyers and carriers.

The destroyers were lost in a recent HD incident [:(]. They'll be redone in a week or so. My cruisers etc aren't currently a part of the main standardised set as they're camo'd

Sorry to hear about that, that must have been alot of time lost.

I've tried my hand at the He219, two sides with hinomarus. They are a bit crude, and I haven't figured out yet how to put in backgrounds. Hope this helps.