Photos Military Small Boats

[morris]

HMS Mimi and HMS Toutou were motor launches of the Royal Navy. After undergoing an unusual journey from Britain to Lake Tanganyika in the interior of Africa, the ships played an important role in the African naval struggle between Britain and Germany during World War I. The names mean Meow and Fido in Parisian slang. They had originally been named Dog and Cat by their erstwhile commander, Geoffrey Spicer-Simson, only to have the names rejected by an apparently scandalized Admiralty.

HMS Toutou, East Africa 1915

Armed Motor Launch HMS Mimi, Sister ship to HMS Toutou

 

[Picanha]

The ship they should fight there, the Graf Götzen now named MV Liemba, was still operating on lake Tanganyika as of 2018.

It was also transported in parts and re-assembled at the lake.

MV Liemba - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Fish&Chips]

Type 934 harbour shuttle of the German navy

Image by Ein Dahmer at Wikimedia Commons, unchanged, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

M3 amphibious river ferries and a combat engineer boat of the German army

© Axel Kirch / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons); unchanged

Y866 Breitgrund is a multi-purpose boat of the German navy

Image by Ein Dahmer at Wikimedia Commons, unchanged, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

Y835 Todendorf is a patrol boat for coastal shooting ranges

Image by Mef.ellingen at Wikimedia Commons, unchanged, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

West-German navy icebreaker A1401 Eisvogel in 1963

Image by Friedrich Magnussen, courtesy of Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte at Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany

 

[morris]

The ship they should fight there, the Graf Götzen now named MV Liemba, was still operating on lake Tanganyika as of 2018.

It was also transported in parts and re-assembled at the lake.

MV Liemba - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

View attachment 292469

View attachment 292470

The Graf Götzen (MV Liemba) is a remarkable ship, I was planning to make a separate post about the Graf Götzen but you beat me to it, so I just leave here some pictures and videos.

After preliminary assembly Goetzen was taken apart and shipped in 5000 boxes loaded on three cargo vessels to Dar es Salaam in German East Africa (modern day Burundi, Rwanda and Tanganyika (the mainland part of present Tanzania)). From there the trains of the Mittellandbahn ("Central Line") carried the boxes to Kigoma. She was rebuilt there in 1914 and launched on 5 February 1915.

During World War I the Germans converted Goetzen to an auxiliary warship under the name SMS Goetzen. They gave her a 10.5 cm (4 in) gun from the light cruiser SMS Königsberg.

German gun crew manning Graf von Goetzen's gun

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

The Last German WW1 Warship : SMS Graf von Götzen ( MV Liemba )

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

The Graf Götzen served as a prototype for the German gunboat Königin Luise in old Hollywood classic the African Queen.

Goetzen was designed to serve as a passenger and cargo ferry in conjunction with the Ostafrikanische Eisenbahngesellschaft (East African Railway Company). So she went full cycle and became a passenger and cargo ferry again.

 

[morris]

Y866 Breitgrund is a multi-purpose boat of the German navy

She looks like a minesweeper.

 

[ao_sepia]

M3 amphibious river ferries and a combat engineer boat of the German army
View attachment 292473
© Axel Kirch / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

 

[morris]

Another ship that took part in the battle of the lake Tanganyika

HMS Fifi was an armed screw steamer, captured from the Germans by Royal Navy units during the Battle for Lake Tanganyika, and used to support Anglo-Belgian operations on the lake and its surrounding areas. She had previously been operated by the Germans under the name Kingani named after the river Kingani.

Kingani before capture.

Renamed Fifi

 

[ao_sepia]

HSI32 interceptors built by French CMN group for the Royal Saudi Navy. Official top speed is 43 knots, though a prototype hit 51 knots on trials.

Photos - Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia Photos

F-15SA

www.militaryimages.net

 

[Fish&Chips]

She looks like a minesweeper.

These boats are operated by the naval weapons test facility, so I guess the laying and recovery of mine prototypes is part of their job.

 

[morris]

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[ao_sepia]

For counterinsurgents and communists along the Khlong river,Royal Thai Joint Comand and Stamford University study and research system inspect and control along the Khlong river 900 km.Until the conclusion task force for this duty.Until 1971very violent duty,Royal Thai Navy request support from JUSMAAG to US.Navy,Cpt.Hopwood sends this request to US.DOD by urgent for support boat and Mobile Training Team train crew of Royal Thai Navy at Nakorn Phanom province.
PBR 31 Mark II design by Modutec Marine company,Detroit,Seattle,Washington and made by United Boat Builder company,hull made from fiberglass compressed,diesel Detroit 6V-53 2 engine,440 hp,with twin jets type Jet Drive 14Y,twin M2 .50 at prow,1 M60at middle,and 1 M2 .50 at stern,For Royal Thai Navy hadn't MK-19 at Thai's PBR!South Vietnam Navy,Royal Laos Navy,Khmer Republic had MK-19 at PBR?
later Navy Yard Department,Royal Thai Navy study and research to cloned PBRs.unknown number of received and cloned PBR in Royal Thai Navy!

กองเรือลำน้ำ - Detail History

www.riverine.navy.mi.th

ในสมัยสงครามเย็นไทยเรามีอาวุธอะไรบ้างที่ได้จากอเมริกาในการต่อต้านคอมมิวนิสต์

ในสมัยสงครามเย็นไทยเรามีอาวุธอะไรบ้างที่ได้จากอเมริกาในการต่อต้านคอมมิวนิสต์ รถถังเราเป็นรุ่นอะไรบ้างและมีประจำการอยู่กี่คันในช่วงสงครามเย็น กองทัพไทยเรามีอาวุธ

pantip.com

?????????????????????? ?.14 PBR. '???.' ???? 1/35 ??? Payanak - PayanakModel.Com

www.payanakmodel.com

Question
3 first pics are real PBR?

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

PS.I want to seen the pics or clips ofApocalypse Now,the biggest and greatest sense,CH-47 carrier PBR!

 

[DakshBhatt51]

Gotta give the bloke some credit, that's an amazing feat! The Colombian cartels will be willing to pay him a handsome price for his skills!!

Agreed man???

 

[ao_sepia]

soldiers

www.militaryimages.net

 

[ao_sepia]

Light Torpedo S-Boat Wiesel from the extinct German Democratic Republic Navy (Volksmarine). Built in mahogany wood they were developed into 3 variants, torpedo, mine-laying (as shown in the pic) and as small assault boat with capacity for 32 soldiers. 24 units served between 1964-77.

Photos - NVA East German Armed Forces (1956-1990)

AN 26 in Dresden in 1990 few Days before the NVA would cease to exist

www.militaryimages.net

 

[Gordus]

Romanian and Georgian SOF boarding teams supported by I believe US CCM MK1s.

 

[ao_sepia]

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[ao_sepia]

From the RAF Photographers photographic competition 2005

Baywatch​

Recce Before Brekkie​

Uncharted Waters​

Photographic Competition 2005

www.militaryimages.net

 

[ao_sepia]

Service members with Combined Joint Task Force.​

Service members with Combined Joint Task Force.Conduct Zodiac training with a French Foreign Legion instructor during French Commando Training Arta Plage - Horn of Africa

United States Marines

Images of the United States Marine Corps USMC

www.militaryimages.net

 

[morris]

Eritrea's coast guard

 

[morris]

British mercenaries on Eritrean waters.