Tanelorn's Fleet

[Patine]

@Patine is this what you had in mind?

Yes, it is. I'd almost given up hope. Thanks!

 

[Tanelorn]

USN WWII fleet submarine classes: Gato, Balao and late Balao/ Tench.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gato-class_submarine (77 built 1941-1944)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balao-class_submarine (120 built 1942-1946)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tench-class_submarine (29 built 1944-1955, only 19 availlable by the end of WW2)

For the post war Guppy upgrades check page 9

 

[Tanelorn]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambor-class_submarine (6+6 built 1939-1941, very active early in the war)

 

[Patine]

@Tanelorn if I may be so bold as to ask, have you ever, in your younger days, served for any amount of time in the Hellenic Navy?

 

[Tanelorn]

Its been a while.

1) The 1937 Duca degli Abruzzi-class cruisers were the final version of the Condottieri class and were larger and better protected than their predecessors. The armament was also increased by two extra 152 mm guns, triple turrets replaced twins in the "A" and "Y" positions. The machinery was also revised which led to these ships having a slightly slower maximum speed than their predecessors. Funnel shape/ positions and floatplane arrangement changed as well.
2) The Katsonis class was a French-built class of two submarines for the Hellenic Navy, serving from 1927–28 until WW2. In general, they were similar to the French Navy's Circé-class submarines (next), but the conning tower was larger in order to accommodate the rotating platform of the 100 mm gun. The exploits of both are legendary and their names are carried by succesive subs of the Greek navy. The 3 ship Proteus class was of larger, similar build.
Y-1 Katsonis sank 4 ships until it was sunk by a German submarine chaser on 14 September 1943. It was hit with depth charges, surfaced and after a gun duel, attempted to ram the chaser. In July 2016 the wreck was located off the coast of Skiathos at a depth of 170 m.
Y-2 Papanikolis was one of the most successful Greek submarines in WW2, details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_submarine_Papanikolis_(Y-2) Decommissioned in 1945 and later scrapped. Its conning tower is exhibited at the Hellenic Maritime Museum.
3) The Circé-class submarines were a sub-class of the 28 ship 600 Series of submarines built for the French Navy prior to World War II.
4) The British U-class submarines, officially "War Emergency 1940 and 1941 programmes, short hull "were a class of 49 small, fast submarines built just before and during WW2. Most of the boats built served with the 10th Submarine Flotilla based at Malta.One vessel, HMS Untamed, sank but was salvaged and recommissioned as HMS Vitality. From 1941, some of the boats were transferred to Soviet, Free French and other allied navies. HMS Upstart and HMS Untiring were loaned to the Hellenic Navy after the end of the war, becoming Amphitriti and Xifias respectively.
@Patine Nope.

 

[Tanelorn]

F120 Koln is the name of a former frigate class of the West German Federal Navy. Six ships were put into service between 1961 and 1964. Together with the destroyers of the Hamburg class , they were the first new builds for the German Navy, post WW2. They introduced the new CODAG drive. Between 1982 and 1989 they were decommissioned. The Augsburg was scrapped, the Cologne used as a training hulk, the frigates Emden (as the Gelibolu) , Karlsruhe (as the Gemlik), Lübeck and Braunschweig (canibalized for spares) were handed over to the Turkish Navy where they served from about 1983 to 1994. Very lightly equipped but fast, at 32 knots.

 

[Tanelorn]

Norwegian Oslo (x5) and Turkish Berk (x2) light frigate designs from the Cold War .Both are essentially redesigned/ modifed post war US destroyer escort hull types (Dealy and Claude Jones respectively). Berk had a helipad, Oslo got Norwegian Penguin SSMs in 1975.

 

[Tanelorn]

Haven't posted this Italian primadonna.
The Luigi Durand de la Penne class are two guided missile destroyers of the Italian Navy. Comissioned in 1993, they are an enlarged version of the Audace class, updated with CODOG machinery and modern sensors. Four ships were planned but the second pair were cancelled when Italy joined the (far superior) FREMM project.

 

[Tanelorn]

The Diopos Antoniou pair of fast attack craft were built by CN de I'Esterel for Cyprus, but the Cypriot Government was not allowed to take delivery of them (this was at the time of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus), so they were taken over by the Greek Navy instead. They have wooden hulls and are armed with four SS12M missiles. Still in service.
One more, Salamis, was delivered to Cyprus in 1981. It has Mistral SAMs and Exocet targeting equipment instead.
The air launched AS.12 saw action on both sides of the 1982 Falklands War. It was fired from British Westland Wasp helicopters against the Argentine submarine ARA Santa Fe.

-edit- Obviously it is not the same wooden hull from 1975, they are intentionally built easy to repair and maintain.

 

[Patine]

Haven't posted this Italian primadonna.

It seems you must have. It's asking me for a permission lock to save over a file with an identical name in my folder of downloads from the Scenario League.

 

[JPetroski]

@Tanelorn would you be willing to take a crack at a modern pirate vessel? Something akin to what the Somalians/East Asians might use? I've freed up a spot in Cold War and want to enforce a need to keep a naval presence to clear out shipping lanes.

I understand piracy really heated up after the Cold War, but it seems that basically any impoverished area near wealthy sea lanes had a chance of springing them once various navies were occupied elsewhere.

 

[Tanelorn]

West German Type 209 family of subs. User navy flag in alphabetic order, date(s) of introduction, number of units procured.
Rotated the previous model a few degrees, the size differences are exaggerated a bit.
@JPetroski Do you mean a fast boat, or a "mother ship"?

 

[Tanelorn]

More HDW subs

 

[JPetroski]

@Tanelorn Curt hooked me up with a small attack boat, but a mother's hip would be great if/when you're so inclined. I do have a passable unit at this time, though it is off scale with the rest of the naval units.

 

[techumseh]

I can't wait for the "mother's hip" graphic!

 

[Tanelorn]

Wait and see Tanelorn's feet.

 

[Tanelorn]

To be cleaned up and reorganized

 

[Tanelorn]

The Mitscher-class destroyer was an experimental destroyer class of four ships that were built for the United States Navy shortly after World War II. Considerably larger than all previous destroyers, they would have been the first post-war destroyer class had they not been reclassified during construction as destroyer leaders (DL).
The three Albany-class missile cruisers were originally built as heavy cruisers of the Baltimore and Oregon City classes and converted to missile cruisers in 1958-1964. They carried Talos and Tartar SAM missles as well as an ASROC launcher. These cruisers were initially converted into all-missile warships with no naval guns, but later on, two open-mount 127 mm guns were added near their aft exhaust stacks.

 

[Tanelorn]

US navy vessels and foreign operators so far

 

[Tanelorn]

Type 212, Type 214 and Type 218 diesel-electric submarines developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH (HDW).
edit- fag fix
x no. in service, comission date, (+on order &/or under construction + option)
The Israeli Dolphin class preceeded them (in service in 1999) and was the basis for the series. Poland has also declared their intention to lease a pair of 212s when they become available.