Launch from Tirpiz

[sdkfz2]

I am not shure if the english word "longboat" is the correct translation of the word I am looking for. (the google translation say it is..)

I want to ask; related to values, in what levels are we talking when it comes to survived longboats from Tirpiz? As you know the battleship Tirpiz had several boats of different types on board (I think it was seven, or?)

But how about the values? I know an old man...

[Gran Sasso]

What type?

[sdkfz2]

Today I take this photoes of the Tirpitz long-boat. It is located only some miles away from where battleship Tirpitz ended its life in Norway 1944. The old man who owns the boat told me it is one of the "sjalupps" (norwegian word for boat) from Tirpitz. But this is not my field so please feel free to comment in both directions. Is it possible that the man tells right story? (he has no motivation to lie)

[mauserk98]

Very interesting, i believe one of these has been for sale here in Norway earlier.

[Marcel Banziger]

If true very interesting and awesome to any collection!

[John R.]

At least one of the boats from Graf Spee still exists, rotting away in a field in Argentina.

John

[John R.]

Graf Spee

[John R.]

I think the Tirpitz boat has a good chance of being to that ship. I am relatively sure the superstructure would have been modified over the years so a direct comparison to period photos may or may not be helpful.

Be interesting to see what the engines are like and if there is anything identifying inside the boat itself.

John

[Ludwig]

Very interesting!!! Please keep this thread updated!!!

[compressore]

Hello,

here is an old link to one sold in Finnland 2008
http://www.finn.no/finn/boat/used/vi...g&adTypeId=120

The one previous sold looks like the one John had posted, but it seems the boat started this thread is different (modified as John indicated)?
More pictures would help. The condition looks not so bad, so maybe a well worth restoration project.

Very intresting !
Regards
Christian

[John R.]

Yes, it looks just like the remaining launch (or motor whaleboat) of Graf Spee. In the case of Graf Spee, the Captains "gig" was destroyed when the ship exploded.

Three boats were used by the crew to get to Argentina. One boat disappeared soon after their arrival, nobody knows what happened to it.

One eventually ended up in the Argentine Naval Museum, but was later destroyed instead of being restored due to its poor condition. Too bad.

That is the one with the three portholes I think.

That left one, which is the two porthole example like Christian's.

It is just rotting away as you can tell, in private hands.

John

[John R.]

But how about the values? I know an old man...

I personally think it has only give away value to a skilled craftsman with deep pockets. It would have to be carefully removed to a shipyard of some type, restored to the original plans if available and a lot or work expended to make it seaworthy.

Big job. Very expensive restoration project. This is not quite like a tank that ends up in a big shop someplace, at least I do not think it is. My example is the Graf Spee launch, nobody was willing to date to do anything in that regard, including the Argentine Navy for their launch.

Even in the US, we have the USS Olympia. Flagship of Dewey at Manila Bay, rotting away in Philadelphia. Hard to say what the fate of that warship might be. So if almost nobody is willing to do anything with that warship, why would anybody be willing to restore a launch plank by plank?

I wish somebody would, but it would have to be a very special situation for it to happen.

John

[John R.]

Graf Spee launch, one of many of them.