Name this Naval Vessel

My guess is either Arcona or Medusa in their Flak ship guise.

 

Very close, it is german AA cruiser, but not of that class.

 

You mean ship right, not boat?

 

Can't find pictures of her but looking at drawings the closest match is Niobe (the Dutch origin one not the original Kaiser Navy Niobe then Yougoslav then Italian then German one) I was confused for years until I realized they were different ships.

About boats and ships I'm happy to see we are back to above the 1000t mark, the way this thread was going I was expecting someone to post an individual LCT or Siebel ferry.

 

Yes it is (northern) Niobe!
It is strange germans had 2 AA cruisers under same name (fortunately on different seas).
I was also confused about it, I was looking for data on ex-yugoslav cruiser, and found russian site of sinking ship with same name.

Your turn.

 

Bonus points if you can identify the date and location



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USS Brooklyn, Nov 8 1942

 

Very close not Brooklyn but one of her sisters and the hit was no dud from a coastal gun but something a lot more deadly.

 

Savanah at Salerno.

 

Yes it's USS Savannah hit by a Fritz-X guided bomb off Salerno 11 September 1943.

Your turn

 

Name this vessel in WW 2.

 

Can I get a hint? It looks like it could be a Patrol Yacht, but all the pictures that I have found only show one stack. My usual source doesn't show ships that small.

 

It ended its days training merchant ship defense crews....

 

I surrender.

 

Its the patrol gunboat USS Paducah which by 1940 had become a miscellaneous auxilary IX-23. She served in WW 2 on the Great Lakes alongside her sister the Dubuque and the two training carriers Wolverine and Sable. Seeing the entirety of that coal powered fleet putting to "sea" must have been a real sight.

 

With ships like that patrolling the Great Lakes, no wonder the Germans were too afraid to send U-Boats there....

 

9 days and no new ships.

So try this one:

 

Nice picture!

A destroyer with a very British look about her, could be from any one of the A to I classes or an "export" model (there were a lot of them). Hard to narrow it down to an individual ship.

The picture is not very clear, no camouflage, no visible electronics and what looks like a pennant number on the side ..... so if British the picture is pre war or early war. I believe the single band on aft funnel should identify the flotilla.

 

I'd say that the pennant number is 22 which would make this HMS Diamond, which also carried a single funnel band. Sunk 27th April 1941. Also the timing coincides with the latest HMS Diamond undertaking sea trials prior to being handed over to the RN!
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It is a British Destroyer.