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Russia - Pr.23370 - SMK-2171


Russia - Pr.23370M - SMK-2177

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Very nice additions.

Should there not be some overhang shading on the supports of the Iquitos?

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English Electric Canberra FD
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Hi, Hood. You are totally wright! . Corrected!

Germany - MV Triton

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天滅中共全黨死清光!

Very good job as always

Good evening, guys:

In South America, Lurssen type torpedo boats were the most prevalent models, either of 45 mts (in Argentina) or the smaller 36 mts (in Chile and Ecuador). The exception was the Vosper 110 ft of Peruvian Navy, which was known locally as the Velarde class. A patrol boat with some differences with the previous Vosper fast boats, of all steel construction (instead wood and GRP); and with twin diesel engines, instead the Proteus gas turbine and cruising diesels used in previous Vosper designs. In Peruvian service, the torpedo tubes were seldom seen, but the class was seen with the depth bombs stern rack frequently. Ordered in 1965, the 6 Vosper boats were for a decade the main light attack vessels of MGP. In the 1980s, with the arrival of missile boats of French origin, the class was transfered to the Coast Guard, the armament reduced to the 20 mm Oerlikons, and the 6 boats were renamed. All the boats were paid off in the late 1990s.

Credits: Porthsmouth Bill´s Vosper boats gave me several guidelines of the 110 ft depicted here, specially under the flotation line. Thanks to him. Cheers.

Good morning, guys:

An important class (at least in numbers) harbour defense boat during WWII was the Coast Guard 83-ft cutter. Of wood construction, petrol engines, poor range due the bad fuel economy, armed with the mousetrap asw bomb, two stern racks for depth charges and another two in either side. Several flotillas of the class were used during D-Day as rescue boats. 6 were transfered to the Peruvian Navy in 1944 (without mousetrap and radar) and were used mainly to patrol the area off-Talara, the northen harbour for oil products. Cheers.

Interesting boats. They don't get the same level of attention as similar World War II vessels.
You have a weird artefact at the bottom right of the template, a stray block of four pixels.

Thanks, I will fix it right now!

That is true. The 83-Ft class was (despite the numbers and despite being a common vessel in almost all American harbours and naval bases) a largely unknown boat, much less glamorous than the PT or MTB. Cheers.