MuseumShip Blog

30 December 1980, 37 years ago today, SS Soldek was taken out of service

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 December 31, 2000, 17 years ago today, Danish HDMS Sehested (P547) was decommissioned

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25 December 1939, today 78 years ago S-56 was launched at Dalzavod, Vladivostok

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22 December 1976, today 41 years ago HDMS Sehested (P547) was laid down at Frederikshavn Værft A/S

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22 December 1969, today 48 years ago HMAS Onslow (SS60) was commissioned

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22 December 1910, today 107 years ago SS Nomadic laid down at Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland

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21 December 1960, today 57 years ago Flore (S645) was launched at Direction des Constructions et Armes navales (DCAN) de Cherbourg

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19 December 1956, today 61 years ago HNLMS Sittard (M830) was commissioned

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18 December 1969, today 48 years ago INS Kursura (S20) was commissioned

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Some pretty rare pictures of Dutch Schorpioen-class monitor HNLMS Schorpioen, provided by Ron van Maanen, taken during her renovation at 'The Schelde' shipyard in Vlissingen (Netherlands) in 1985.

She was then transferred to Middelburg as a museum ship. In 1998 the Royal Netherlands Navy purchased her back and she is now part of the Marine Museum in Den Helder as pictured below:

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