KRIEGSMARINE CENTRAL - KM Ship Plans/Discussion

[Pete100]

Hello and welcome,

This is a hub for all things Kriegsmarine. You will find information, data, and even deductions like this nearly nowhere else - and I take great pride in that.
So if you have a question about the Kriegsmarine, are looking for some specific ship or weapon, or even want sources, this is your place. Myself or any number of the great members of secretprojects will, I have confidence, assist.

Author's Note: this isn't wehraboo central, this is Patrick, and "German science is the greatest in the world" isn't an instrument.

You will find plans and books on a great many things. This includes but is very certainly not limited to:

• H-Class.
• Existing German Battleships (Schlatschiff Scharnhorst/Gneisenau/Bismarck/Tirpitz) and their preliminary designs.
• Admiral Zenker's various designs.
• O-class battlecruiser.
• Kreuzer M.
• Spahkreuzer's 38, 39, and 40.
• Your typical K's, Leipzig, and Nurnberg.
• Destroyers of every type and size, including Zerstörer Typ "32", Typ 36C, 37J/I-IV, 42 (Z-51), 42A/B/C, Typ 44, and Typ 45.
• Flottentorpedoboote, including Ftb 1939, 1940, 1941/41A, 1942, and 1944.
• S-Boote.
• Weapons of all conceivable calibers (5cm AA to 53cm main guns).
• Torpedoes.

All plans can be found here, including some other goodies if you look hard enough.

Germany - Sarcasticat's Home :) - Google Drive

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Hi a friend of mine has a broken WW2 Kriegsmarine service issue watch with a service number M10548.

Can you give any suggestions how to trace the identity of the Kriegsmarine that this watch was issued to??

Thanks for any help you can give

Peter

 

[_Sarcasticat_]

Hi a friend of mine has a broken WW2 Kriegsmarine service issue watch with a service number M10548.

Can you give any suggestions how to trace the identity of the Kriegsmarine that this watch was issued to??

Thanks for any help you can give

Peter

I'm flattered, but I cannot help.
With just a serial number, there is practically no way to tell what person or ship this watch may have been to - it may have never been to a ship, even.

 

[Nick Sumner]

https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de/invenio/direktlink/9dd9f440-134a-4c5e-9407-1ce442b759d9/

Sanglune, this is a fascinating find. The version of the Lyon class presented here is very different from the depictions in both Jordan's French Battleships of World War One and Breyer's Battleships and Battle Cruisers 1905-1970 which are in good agreement with each other. Below is a low res scan from Jordan, which is very similar to the drawing in Breyer.



The only other configuration for Lyon that I'm aware of is from Warship International (though it seems when I photocopied it I neglected to make a note of the date). As can be seen it's very different from the one in Breyer and Jordan.



I have to ask if the version from the German archives you have found is speculation? The fruits of espionage? Derived from captured documents? Do you have any more information on the drawing?

 

[Roodbaard1958!]

see also page 377 https://books.google.nl/books?id=pB...JEAI#v=onepage&q=tourville battleship&f=false