broncepulido Posted February 14, 2015 Report Posted February 14, 2015 File Name: Battle of the Ligurian Sea, 18 March 1945. Last Stand of Kriegsmarine. Historical Scenario File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 14 Feb 2015 File Category: MEDC Battle of the Ligurian Sea, 18 March 1945. Last Stand of Kriegsmarine. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the HCWW-101110 World Wars era Platform Database. To avoid spoilers is better to play first a few times the Allied/Blue side, and only after play the German/Red side. Image: Camouflaged Yugoslavian destroyers Dubrovnik (left, then Italian Premuda), and Beograd (then Italian Sebenico), probably at Bocche di Cattaro (Montenegro) after their capture by Italian forces on 17 April 1941. Origin: taked from Wikipedia Commons and from Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht - Heer und Luftwaffe (Bild 101 I) and German Federal Archives. Battle of the Ligurian Sea was a small little known naval battle, last surface battle of Kriegsmarine executed by the last elements of Kriegsmarine's 10th Torpedo Boat Flotilla, composed by previously captured foreign warships of diverse origin, and fought near places with one of the world older naval history recorded, Returning to Genoa after a minelaying action near Cap Corse and Gorgona Island, the small German force was surprised and attacked by marauding Allied light units. Some months before, on 2 October 1944, the same German flotilla and ships encountered USS Gleaves (DD-423) in a similar minelaying mission towards San Remo (now Sanremo) but they did avoid contact and returned to Genoa undamaged, and this ill-fated encounter is depicted as the labelled LIGURIAN44 bonus scenario. Both mini-scenarios are introductory scenarios or historical representations more than full-scale scenarios (but probably addictive on his simplicity). Enrique Mas, February 2015. Click here to download this file Quote
broncepulido Posted February 14, 2015 Author Report Posted February 14, 2015 Some of the few sources and bibliography: About the Ligurian Sea Battle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Ligurian_Sea About the curious and interesting German ex Yugoslavian and ex Italian destroyer TA.32, aside Jane's and Conway's : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik_(Schiff,_1931) Two very interesting books, mentioned also on Wikipedia: Zvonimir Freivogel: Kriegsmarine in der Adria 1941-45; Ex-jugoslawische Kriegsschiffe unter deutscher Flagge - ein Stück weitgehend unbekannter Marine- und Seekriegsgeschichte. (Marine-Arsenal Band 40), Podzun-Pallas, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1998, ISBN 3-7909-0640-9. On page 11 profile of TA.32 on her last configuration. Zvonimir Freivogel: Beute-Zerstörer und Torpedoboote der Kriegsmarine. (Marine-Arsenal Band 46), Podzun-Pallas, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 2000, ISBN 3-7909-0701-4. Clear profile of TA.32 on page 17. Two generic books about Kriegsmarine: Erich Groner et alt.: Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815-1945, Volume/Band 2,page 106, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1983. No detailed weapons stated, but an interesting profile with her initially proposed radar-ship configuration to direct fighters against incoming enemy aircrafts (Nachjagdleitschiff). Erich Groner: Die Schiffe der Deutschen Kriegsmarine und Luftwaffe 1936-45 und ihr verbleib, J.F. Lehmanns Verlag, Múnich 1954. A simple but useful and complete book, TA.32 is showed on page 16, but only with Yugoslavian weapon configuration. I think is very doubtful she was equipped with 105mm/65 SK C/33 gun on single mounts, I don't find any reference about that gun on single mounts, but I'm not 100% sure: http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_41-65_skc33.htm She was probably equipped with the more usual 105/45 SK C/32: http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_41-45_skc32.htm From images on books and other references in German service (commissioned from Juny 1944 to 1945) was equipped with 4x105mm, 10x37mm/83 SK C/30 (4xtwin mounts, 2xsingle mounts), 32x20mm/65 SK C/38 (7xquadruple mounts, 4xtwin mounts), 1xtriple torpedo tube mount(with German torpedoes, very probably G7a), mines, and as in the illustrations three pairs of depth charge throwers and 2 depth charge rails with 6 or so depth charges on each rail, perhaps with a grand total of 30 depth charges: http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMGER_ASW.htm As sensors on photos (poor photos of this vessel) is showed at least a FuMO21 (but it should be also a late-war FuMO24/25), very probably ESM as the rest of German destroyers in 1944 (FuMB 3 Bali?), and some sonar equipement, probably SB (Bug S) and GHG (2x32 elements) as other German destroyers: http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WRGER_08.htm Quote
broncepulido Posted February 14, 2015 Author Report Posted February 14, 2015 About TA24 (ex Italian Arturo) and TA29 (ex Italian Erídano): Both were Ariete-class derived from the Spica (Alcione), 745 tons standard, with a speed of only 31 knots. Weapons, as in page 35 of Beute-Zerstörer und Torpedoboote der Kriegsmarine: TA24: 2x100mm/47 single mount (Italian), 10x20mm/65 Breda(3xtwin mounts, 4xsingle mounts), 2x450mm triple mount torpedo tubes. TA29 (and TA30 and TA36): 2x100mm/47 single mount (Italian), 10x20mm/65 Breda(3xtwin mounts, 4xsingle mounts), 1x450mm triple mount torpedo tubes. Both were equipped with radar, as stated on Beute-Zerstörer und Torpedoboote der Kriegsmarine, page 16, in concrete also these ships of the 10. T-Flotille: TA23, TA24, TA27, TA29, TA31 and TA32. Quote
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