Tag: Kriegsmarine

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New: German Siebel Ferry (2)

The Kriegsmarine will use any craft available to support the German armies advance, The Luftwaffe Siebel Ferry will prove vital to your forces victory!   View in Store The Siebel ferry Dubbed the Kleine fähre (small ferry) the Siebel ferry would prove it’s self a highly useful and adaptable vessel. Aircraft designer Fritz Siebel (A…

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Spotlight: The Kriegsmarine R-Boat

As one of the Kriegsmarine’s most produced classes of ship, R-boats proved to be real workhorses, acting as minesweepers, patrol craft and rescue vessels. Designed during the inter-war period, these sleek, low-profile minesweepers were intended for in-shore work. Famed for their speed and manoeuvrability, the R-boot flotillas would serve in every theatre of the war…

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New: Kriegsmarine Marinefahrprahm F-lighter

Appearing from the harbour mouth glides the low-profile of the Kriegsmarine Marinefährprahm F-lighter, bristling with weapons to protect its Cruel Seas convoys…   View in Store The Marinefährprahm F-lighter Originally a converted tank landing craft that was being developed for the Kriegsmarine, The Marinefährprahm F-lighter was up armoured and equipped with the extremely accurate 88mm…

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New: JU 87D Stuka Flight, Bristol Beaufighter MK Ic Flight and F4U Corsair Flight

Sound the air raid sirens! Three new flights of aircraft are taking off over Cruel Seas! Ju 87D Stuka flight View in Store The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (Sturzkampfflugzeug meaning “dive bomber” in translation), was a dive bomber for the Luftwaffe. This is also the infamous aircraft that was equipped with its wailing sirens,…

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Ship Focus: F-Lighters in the Mediterranean

The small harbours of North Africa were impassable to larger merchantmen. Enter the F-Lighter, half landing craft, half gunboat.  Humble Beginnings “An MFP could hold its own with a destroyer, let alone a PT which had nothing more powerful than a 20-mm machine gun to shoot with.” – Samuel Eliot Morison   The Marinefährprahm (Naval ferry barge,…