Gunboats and Monitors

For anyone who is maniacally detail-minded, here is the exact succession of RN names for each ship:
M.1 > Farragut > Admiral Farragut > M.1 > Abercrombie
M.2 > General Grant > M.2 > Havelock
M.3 > Robert E. Lee > M.3 > Lord Raglan > Raglan
M.4 > Stonewall Jackson > M.4 > Earl Roberts > Roberts
The rapid renaming caused a fair amount of confusion, and variations adding "General" or "Lord" became common, even aboard the ships, but this list includes all the official names ever assigned to the ships. I will note that College, normally of highest credibility, appears in this case to have gotten it wrong in including "General Abercrombie." Curiously, "Abercrombie" is itself "wrong" in that the man's name was rightly Abercromby.
For those who want to out-anal the most analest and the anal, you could put the names in all-caps as they appear in official pronouncements. As far as I can tell, there is no single official format for alpha-numeric designations: M.1, M 1, M-1, and M1 would probably all be acceptable.

 

JCFalkenbergIII and Tiornu.

#112 is the WW2 Abercrombie 2 z 15inch guns
#114 The WW1 Abercrombie 2 x 14inch guns sailing away from the camera

:lol: Just thought I would be total anally retentive now where did I put the X-lax :lol::lol::lol:

steve

 

LOL. And now for something completely different


MS Trawler HMCS Baffin as completed.

 

Hee!

 

It happens LOL

 

Minensuchboot 1943

The MBoot 43 was the enlarged successor of the mine hunter type MBoot 40. To speed up the construction, those mine hunter were not build in the conventional way anymore, but by separate pre-fabricated sections which were only put together in the shipyard (like the Type XXI submarine).
Although the primary objective for these vessels was mine hunting, they could also be equipped with depth charges and used as submarine hunters, some were also used as torpedo training ships and had two torpedo tubes installed.
Like their predecessors, the MBoot 43 had coal fired steam engines, which made those vessels easier operational in the last years of the war.
Over 160 ships of the MBoot 43 class were ordered from 1942 on, but only 17 were completed until the end of the war. All but one survived the war and were taken over by the allies, some of them serving until the late 1960s.

Minensuchboot 1943 History

 

Armed Trawlers

HMS Norwich City 1939/46

1937 Launched, build at southbank-on-trees by Smith 's Dock. Owned by Consolideted Fisheries of Grimsby. 1939 requisitioned in september and converted to A/S. 1942 Temporary loan to the USN together with crew for A/S duties. Returned to the RN in october and transferred to the South African Station. Based at Durban for convoy duties. 1946 returned to owners. 1964 BU

Displacement: 541 TGross 195 Tnett
Dimensions: 190ft
Engines 99HP
Armament 1x4-inch
Port Reg.: GY. 503
P. No: FY. 229

HMS Viviana 1939/46

1936 Launched build at by Cochrane. Owned by the Atlas SF Co. of Grimsby.
1939 requisitioned in october and converted to A/S. Based at Grimsby (ungrouped). Transferred to the South African Statio an based at Durban for convoy escorts. 1946 returned to owners in may.

Displacement: 452 TGross 310 Tnett
Engines: 114HP
Port Reg.: GY. 233
P. No: FY. 238

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Royal Navy 56 steam Picket Boat

 

HMT WAR DUKE

RNPS

 

whats the armanent for that ship

 

2 x 20mm AA guns

 

My goodness. What is that, parade time in the Higgins pool?

 

LOL. From top to bottom: a US Army Q boat, a US Army Aircraft Rescue boat, a US Navy Picket boat, and a US Navy Landing boat.

 

Does anyone have any information on the Philippine OSP in 1941/42 and what craft they used? What actions were they in and what eventually happened to them?

 

You're referring to the Philippine Offshore Patrol. I'll check. For now, here's something.

 

JC, here's something else I gathered from De La Salle University.

The Off Shore Patrol
During the Philippine Commonwealth under President Manuel L Quezon,
the Filipino Navy existed as adjunct to the United States
Armed Forces. Filipinos served the US military service.
With the creation of a separate Philippine armed force, a naval
organization was formed as a seagoing arm of the Philippine
Army. On 09 February 1939, the Off Shore Patrol (OSP) was
organized with headquarters located at Muelle Del Codo, Port
Area, and Manila. It was headed by 1LT JOSE V ANDRADA,
a graduate of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Initially, the OSP was assigned with three US Navy
Motor Torpedo Boats and christened as follows:
1.
Luzon (Q-111)
83-footer
2.
Abra (Q-112) -
65-footer
3.
Agusan (Q-113) - 65-footer




On 09 January 1941, the OSP Training School was organized with CAPT MARCELO S CASTELO OSP PA as its first Commandant. It offered courses in torpedoes, depth charges, communications, seamanship, engineering and operations of gasoline engines in consonance with the characteristics and capabilities of the Q-Boats. During World War II, however, Japanese planes bombed the OSP Headquarters on 23 December 1941. The Base Commander burned the base before Japanese troops entered Manila.

The Philippine Naval Patrol
The Off Shore Patrol was reactivated on 01 October
1945, just after World War II. The OSP Training School was
transferred to Cavite Naval Shipyard and renamed OSP
Training Center; The OSP was further expanded and became
a major unit of the Philippine Armed Forces. On 04 October
1947, the OSP was renamed Philippine Naval Patrol (PNP)
during the time of President Manuel Roxas. On 05 January
1951, the PNP was further designated as the Philippine Navy.

 

Below are more details from
Naval Education and Training Command

From what I've gathered, the boats are Thorneycroft CMB's.