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<r>A couple of photos of the ancient Regia Marina water tanker SARNO of 1889, hulked in 1930, scuttled by the Germans in La Spezia in April 1945 and raised post-war. From Stefano Danese and Silvano Benedetti, "300 Gli scafi affondati nel Golfo della Spezia e le operazioni per il loro recupero", Ediz...

I would rather say a former Kriegfischkutter or MFV (Motor Fishing Vessel). Whalecatchers always seemed to have lower hull sides, even if the toilet (?) on the port side resembles a whaler's...

43 Norwegian whalers purchased by the French Navy and 22 more by the Regia Marina in 1916...the whaling companies, with the sad lack of markets for their product experienced during the war, were selling out their whole fleets of whalecatchers!

About the sinking of TETI F. in February 1944, I might add that Byron Tesapsides in his "Die Kriegsmarine in der Aegaeis im II. WK 1941-1944" has a motorship or motor-schooner TEDDY F sunk by air attack on 29 Febr. 1944 in the harbour of Ios Island... No tonnage given...et pour cause!

<t>The ship on the left of Dido's photo (coming from Paul Silverstone) is SAN DIMITRIO later LATRUN, ex SODRA SVERIGE, 733 grt/1871, built by Bergsunds at Stockholm, which arrived at Haifa on 1 Nov. 1946 with 1,279 Jewish (mostly Polish) refugees on board, one of 5 Swedish coastal steamers bought by...

<t>A few more suggestions:<br/> <br/> VENETIA, SP-431, steel yacht, 589 grt, escort & patrol force Gibraltar 1917-18<br/> WADENA, SP-158, id., 250 grt, Gibraltar 1918 <br/> WACONDAH, SP-238, id., 190 grt<br/> WAHNETA, AT-1, steel tug, 192 tons displ.<br/> WATHENA, NOTS ID-3884, USSB Design #1025...

Thank you, Memgam.

<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Des photos en plus ou en meilleur resolution:<br/> <URL url="http://www.historisches-marinearchiv.de/projekte/verluste_griechenland/ausgabe.php?rubrik=Handelsmarine&where_value=338"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.historisches-marinearchiv.de ... _value=338">http://www.histor...

<r>GORGO ex PELLICANO II ex PELICAN II<br/> Photo by Guido Alfano, from naviearmatori<br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://forum.pages14-18.com/mesimages/18582/normal139578926011.jpg"><s>[img]</s><URL url="https://forum.pages14-18.com/mesimages/18582/normal139578926011.jpg"><LINK_TEXT text="mesimages/18582/...

<r>Some good pictures of the Italian chalutiers. All of them come from the Giorgio Spazzapan collection.<br/> CAMOGLI ex NEMBO ex ANTIOCHIA ex ANTIOCHE<br/> GERMANA ex GERMAINE<br/> RICCARDO GRAZIOLI LANTE ex ABISSO ex FALCO II ex FALCO ex PETREL<br/> NEMBO ex ANTIOCHIA ex ANTIOCHE<br/> VALOROSO ex ...