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Showing posts with label Armoured boats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Armoured boats. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 November 2024

The Algerian privateers fleet anno 1808

Frigates: 3, 1-50 guns, 1-46 guns, 1-44 guns.

Polacres: 6, 1-22 guns, 1-18 guns, 1-16 guns, 1-4 guns, 1-10 guns, 1-4 guns.

Xebecs: 7, 1-32 guns, 1-28 guns, 1-22 guns, 1-20 guns, 1-16 guns, 1-14 guns, 1-12 guns.

Boats: 2, with latin sails, 4 guns.

Yacht: 2, one sent as aviso to the Spanish coast, one merchant yacht

Totally 20 vessels with a total armament of 376 guns. Further more 2-2 gun galiotes to guard the harbour, 10 gun chaloupes or bomb vessels to serve at sea and 50 to act if the city was under attack.

Source

Albert Devoulxx. “La Marine de la Régence d’Alger”, Revue Africaine, No.. 77, September 1869. 

Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Japanese passenger-cargo ship Malta Maru 1919-1944

Call sign JMTD. Laid down by Asano Shipbuilding Co., Tsurumi, Japan with yard number 13 on 10 June 1919, launched on 29 September 1919, completed on 30 October 1919, chartered by the army as troop transport annex cargo ship assigned army No. 913 in 1943 and torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Pogy (SS-266) on 10 Feburary 1944. Gross tonnage 5,500 tons, under deck 4,988 tons, net tonnage 3,466 tons and as dimensions 400.000 x 523. x 29,4 x 8 (light)-25.6 (loaded) feet. Reciprocating propulsion, speed 10 (normal cruising)-12 (maximum) knots, 513 nhp, coal bunker capacity 1,726 tons, range 12,000 nautical miles/10 knots, single crew. 

Saturday, 13 August 2022

Hungarian armoured river boat Mária on 1 November 1918

Value 120,000 crowns, displacement 30 tons. Part of the Danube Flotilla of the former Austro-Hungarian Navy passing in Hungarian possession on 1 November 1918. Russian booty. (1)

Note

1. Actual situation disarmed.

Source

The Hungarian peace negotiations. An account of the work of the Hungarian peace delegation at Neuilly s/S from January to March, 1920, vol II. Published by the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Budapest, 1922

Hungarian armoured river boat Magda on 1 November 1918

Value 120,000 crowns, displacement 30 tons. Part of the Danube Flotilla of the former Austro-Hungarian Navy passing in Hungarian possession on 1 November 1918. Russian booty blown up at Zagyvarékás in June 1919.

Source

The Hungarian peace negotiations. An account of the work of the Hungarian peace delegation at Neuilly s/S from January to March, 1920, vol II. Published by the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Budapest, 1922.