Baltic Cruise-Highlights

[BPA-Paul]

Thank you for sharing Jonathan ! enjoyed the thread.

[Theodor]

Moving onto the Cruiser Aurora on the River Neva. The blank shot that alerted the Red Guards to storm the Winter Palace was fired from this ship. A lecture that was given on the cruise ship i was on said that scholars suspect that this is not the original ship and that the hulk is rusting away in some dry dock near St Petersburg. What ever the case i enjoyed the visit to her.

Very nice thread!

Here's the wikipedia information about the hull:

Having long served as a museum ship, from 1984 to 1987 the cruiser was once again put in to its construction yard, the Admiralty Shipyard, for capital restoration. During the restoration overhaul, due to deterioration, the ship's hull below the waterline was replaced with a new welded hull according to the original drawings. The cut off lower hull section was towed into the Gulf of Finland, to the unfinished base at Ruchi, and sunk near the shore. (Source: Russian language entry for the Cruiser Aurora) The restoration revealed that some of the ship parts, including the armor plates, were originally made in England, which put in doubt the previously maintained image of the cruiser as a marvel of authentic Russian naval engineering.

[VtwinVince]

Great photos, many thanks. It's nice to see the Danes showing relics not only of the resistance, but also of collaborators. I particularly liked seeing the Werner Best material, he was an interesting fellow.