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ORIGINAL: Lecivius

All I get at work is a blue framed box...nothing else

ORIGINAL: Cuttlefish

You have to enter the id string in the search box to get the image. I'll go ahead and add the picture to this post.

It might be Hibiki. The narrow forward funnel is characteristic of the Akatsukis, and Hibiki was the only one of the four to survive the war. The spotlight placement and shape of the bridge are also correct, but the rest of the ship is too much of a mess for me to tell much. Perhaps others can discern more.

Hibiki was later turned over to the Soviets and renamed Pritky. I would love to see a photo of her during those years (1947 - 1963) but have never found one.

ORIGINAL: Barb

Z-14 Friederich Ihn was named Pospeshnyj (or something like that)

ORIGINAL: Local Yokel

This would indeed appear to be a post-war shot of Hibiki, photographed at Yokosuka in May 1947. Follow this link on the j-aircraft board and click on the thumbnail in the 4th post. You get a decent-sized view of the vessel in which it can be seen that the name Hibiki as been painted on the hull amidships.

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

According to
http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ ... story.html

"In the final days of the war, the destroyer was part of the evacuation fleet in East Prussia and was decommissioned on 10.05.1945. Taken over by the British, but given to the Soviet Union where it entered fleet lists on 05.11.1945. Taken over by a Russian crew on 02.01.1946, the ship arrived in Libau five days later. On 13.02.1946 it was renamed to Prytkiy and served in the North Baltic fleet until 22.03.1952 when it was disarmed, removed from the fleet lists and scrapped."

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Local Yokel

This would indeed appear to be a post-war shot of Hibiki, photographed at Yokosuka in May 1947. Follow this link on the j-aircraft board and click on the thumbnail in the 4th post. You get a decent-sized view of the vessel in which it can be seen that the name Hibiki as been painted on the hull amidships.

Thumbnails? [&:] All i see is words and a "page" icon - clicking on stuff gets a reload of the same page... again, i used 2 different browsers.

ORIGINAL: Cuttlefish
Note the difference between in spelling: Prytkiy and Pritky. These could be two different names, though they are close enough that they could also be two different renditions of the original Cyrillic.

ORIGINAL: Local Yokel

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Local Yokel

This would indeed appear to be a post-war shot of Hibiki, photographed at Yokosuka in May 1947. Follow this link on the j-aircraft board and click on the thumbnail in the 4th post. You get a decent-sized view of the vessel in which it can be seen that the name Hibiki as been painted on the hull amidships.

Thumbnails? [&:] All i see is words and a "page" icon - clicking on stuff gets a reload of the same page... again, i used 2 different browsers.

Maybe I can supply a URL from the j-aircraft board that you can open within your image viewer - try this link. It's the link to the photograph in Dan Kaplan's reply #3 in the thread.

ORIGINAL: thegreatwent

Thanks for the help CF! I was just noodling around the internet and found that image, I am pretty sure it is the good ship but the superstructure changes make it difficult to be sure.

ORIGINAL: Local Yokel

OK, I'll try posting the photograph here directly. Hopefully this won't get me into copyright hot water.