Thema: Yachts used by the Kriegsmarine off Southern France1943-45

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Thank you, Maurice.

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@kgvm:

FR 202 BLUE WATER can't be the ex STRANGER ex WENONAH PY-11 ex USC&GS ex USN SP-165, built 1915 by George Lawley & Son, since that yacht became on 2.10.1940 the HMCS WOLF Z-16, decommissioned 16.5.1945 and sold 15.7.1946 to the Gulf Line of Vancouver as the GULFSTREAM (from navsource).
So the other possibility, ex FLOTS BLEUS, 117 or 142 grt/1904, should be the correct one.

Francesco

[kgvm]

Thanks for this additional information, Francesco.
Regards
Klaus Günther

[de domenico]

Something more:

FR 201 DOLPHIN ex REVERIE (not BEVERIC) ex DARGLE or PEGGY ex JAMES J. BIBBY. Built 1902 as sail training ship for merchant navy boys for the Indefatigable Training Ship Committee of Liverpool, 175 grt. RN Q-ship DARGLE or PEGGY etc. 23.2.1917 to 9.3.1920, 253 t displ., 1x4 in 2x12 pdr. In 1924 fitted with engines as yacht REVERIE then DOLPHIN. Dec. 1925 Mussolini-Austen Chamberlain meeting on board in Liguria (agreement on Ethiopia).

Francesco

[de domenico]

This is JAMES J. BIBBY.

Source: "Sail Training and Cadet Ships", Harold A. Underhill, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1993

[kgvm]

Thanks 

[kgvm]

"White Shadow"/"FR. 206" survived the war. She was rebuilt and reengined in 1947/48 and became the motorship "Greghali", owned by Jean Moretti & Roger Oliviè, Monaco, 140 GRT. Still in Lloyd's Register 1962.