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Now some photos from graves and a funeral.
This is a great picture and a large one. 12x12
Reverse has no writings.
more KM photos of the lot!
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last ones
The picture is of a 1934 class Zerstorer (Destroyer).
Only four were built because the design was restricted in weight and armament by the Versailles Treaty. Furthermore the design was flawed, they were top heavy, under powered and suffered structural cracking due to the poor bow and stern configuration.
They were :- The Richard Beitzen, Lebrecht Maass, Georg Thiele and Max Schultz. Two were lost in a horrendous blue on blue whilst mining the mouth of the Thames estuary when one was mistaken as British and bombed by the Luftwaffe and then struck a mine, the other, coming to it's rescue, also struck a mine and was lost with all hands.
A third was scuttled by the crew off the Norwegian coast in action with British ships when it ran out of ammo for it's main guns, (Another flaw, they carried 60 less main armament shells than any comparable British ship.)
Only the Richard Beitzen survived the war, captured in 1945 by the British in Norway and taken as a prize back to the U.K. It was broken up for scrap in 1949.
Regards, Ned.
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
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