The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A Blohm and Voss Ha 139 seaplane being hoisted onto the stern catapult of the German depot ship, Friesenland, which is docked in her home port of Bremen, Germany. Initially operated as mail planes by Lufthansa in the 1930s, these aircraft saw limited service with the Luftwaffe during the Second World War as mine laying, reconnaissance and ambulance aircraft. The depot ship Friesenland could carry two of these aircraft and she was launched at Kiel on 23 March 1937 and completed later that year. She operated in France and Norway as a seaplane tender/depot ship, and was also used as a repair ship at Trondheim. After the war, Friesenland was taken over by the Royal Navy and continued to be used as a seaplane depot. In 1949 she was sold into merchant service and renamed Fair sky. She was sold several more times, being renamed Castel Navoso and Argentine Reefer. She was scrapped in 1968-1969.
SYDNEY, NSW. THE RAN TRAINING SHIP HMAS TINGIRA. TINGIRA (ORIGINALLY SAILING SHIP SOBRAON) WAS LAUNCHED IN SCOTLAND IN 1866 AND AFTER PLYING BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA WAS SOLD TO THE NSW GOVERNMEN
MELBOURNE, 1932. PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE SEAPLANE CARRIER HMAS ALBATROSS AT PORT PHILLIP. AFTER HER TRANSFER IN 1938 TO THE ROYAL NAVY AND ON THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR 2 THE SHIP, AS HMS ALBATROSS, WAS
SS Oberhausen, a cargo ship of the German Australian Line. Built in 1905 she was impounded at Port Huon in 1914. Later renamed Booral she was taken over by the Commonwealth Line from 1915 until 1926.
AN AERIAL VIEW OF SEAPLANE CARRIER HMAS ALBATROSS WITH ONE OF HER SEAGULL AMPHIBIAN AIRCRAFT FROM 101 FLEET COOPERATION FLIGHT, RAAF, OVERHEAD. NOTE THE HATCH COVERING THE HANGAR ENTANCE JUST FORWARD
Hamburg, Germany. 1945-05-05. Launching of these U-boats from the Blohm and Voss works was held up because some necessary materials had not reached the yards.
Hamburg, Germany. 1945-05-05. Launching of these U-boats from the Blohm and Voss works was held up because some necessary materials had not reached the yards.
