R Boote im Mittelmeer 1942-1943

[Enrico Cernuschi]

Good evening Gentlemen,

after the first batch of 15 R Boote motorminesweepers of the class R 1 sent in the Mediterranean sea in 1942 the Kriegsmarine sent there at least 27 furhter R boats.
As they were quite bigger than the earlier one how did they come? By the French channels like the previous "R 1-16" or by the Black sea disguised as merchant ships like the F lighters coming from the Danube or were they assembled in the Med. ?

Greetings

   EC