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| Visiting the IMMH - Part B:ship models! |
This is the second part, about my visit to the Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg (IMMH, International Maritime Museum of Hamburg), a private museum in a former warehouse (Kaispeicher B) in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany. The museum houses predominantly Peter Tamm's collection of model ships, construction plans, uniforms, and maritime art, amounting to over 40,000 items and more than one million photographs on 12,000m2 (130,000 sq ft). It is the world's largest private collection of maritime artifacts. Three thousand years worth of maritime history are displayed on nine ‘decks’ with precious exhibits, model ships, armor, photographs, maps, paintings and much much more. To learn more about the IMMH you can visit Internationales Maritimes Museum - A real gem in Hamburg! (Part A: general impressions) because in this Part B (and final part), we will focus on the ship models and almost mainly those of WWII. Ι repeat that I had a great time there and I wish I could have more time to examine more other ship models (yes, there are not only those ship models I post here) as well as other details, paintings and maps, and to visit some sub-floors in between the nine floors which I missed. I could say that the museum is "nine floors of naval awesomeness"! An amazing well-maintained maritime museum worth visiting again and again! For the moment enjoy more than 200 photos of various warships accompanied by useful information!
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| Model of the armed military transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff, which was torpedoed by the Soviet submarine "S-13" on January 30, 1945 while evacuating German civilians, German officials, refugees from Prussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Estonia and Croatia and military personnel shortly after leaving Gotenhafen (today Gdynia). Only 1,239 people in the completely overcrowded ship (approx. 10,300 including 5,000 children!) survived the biggest ship disaster to date! |
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| In the previous image you can spot six quadruple 20mm C38 AA guns. It seems the ship was not carrying any armament from bow to amidships. |
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| The history of the German armed military transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff |
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| The German armed military transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff |
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| 105 mm SK C/33 twin anti-aircraft gun. These guns were installed on the Bismarck and Scharnhorst classes oas well as the Deutschland- and Admiral Hipper-classes. Next of it you can see a quadruple 20mm C38 AA gun which was mentioned earlier. |
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| Soviet Kotlin SAM class (Project 56A) destroyer |
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| Soviet Kotlin SAM class (Project 56A) destroyer |
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| Quadruple (Vierling) 20mm/65cal C38 anti-aircraft gun system |
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| German Navy anti-aircraft guns, 105mm C32 (with a cupola) and MLG27 27mm automatic gun. The latter equips currently almost every German Navy warship |
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| Cutaway of a German triple 28 cm C/28 turret of Deutschland-class |
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| Another view of the triple gun turret of Deutschland-class |
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| Model of a MEKO A200 South African Navy frigate |
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| The German vision of the corvette of the future (KDZ-2020)! |
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| The German vision of the frigate of the future (FDZ-2020) |
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| Visby class corvette model |
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| K130 Braunschweig class corvette |
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| Zumwalt class "destroyer". Note the special Mk100 57mm guns which were never installed but replaced by Mk46 30mm guns |
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| Another view of Zumwalt class "destroyer" |
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| Brandenburg class frigate |
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| Diorama of the impressive Task Force 58. The Fast Carrier Task Force was the main striking force of the United States Navy in the Pacific War from January 1944 through the end of the war in August 1945. |
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| The task force was made up of several separate task groups, each typically built around 3-4 aircraft carriers and their supporting vessels. The support vessels were screening destroyers, cruisers, and the newly built fast battleships. By the time of the Battle of Iwo Jima in early 1945, the Task Force included 18 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships and 2 Alaska-class, large cruisers, along with numerous cruisers and destroyers. TF 58 alone commanded more firepower than any navy in history! |
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| Mistral class LHD 1:200. |
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| Mistral class LHD. Note that in the armament it is included Simbad-RC automatic twin launcher. Today they have the old Simbad launcher. |
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| Another view of a Mistral class amphibious assault ship |
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| Now that was an interesting model! Seaplane tender (converted cruiser) SMS Stuttgart (1908-1920. The ship could carry three aircraft. |
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| Two 8.8 cm SK L/45 anti-aircraft guns were installed forward while she retained her submerged torpedo tubes |
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| German Bussard catapult vessel, equipped with heavy catapult for
launching of Dp15/18 heavy flying boats. |
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The Bussard was transferred to the US and in 1948 she was sold to the Netherlands and converted to dredger |
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| Independence class littoral combat ship |
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| Various warships at the same scale including Japanese cruisers, seaplane tender/midget submarine carrier Chiyoda, US cruisers (Ticonderoga, Portland), North Carolina-class battleship |
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| WWII and modern aircraft carriers |
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| Baku. modified Kiev class (today INS Vikramaditya), Admiral Kuznetsov and an Tarawa class helicopter carrier. |
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| Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers alongside modern Soviet and American designs |
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| Extraordinary model of German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin! |
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| The carrier would have had a complement of 42 fighters and dive bombers (Stuka) |
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| A Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber in the foreqround |
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| The ship would had have a very impressive anti-aircraft armament as well as 16 x 15cm SK C/28 guns for her protection against enemy warships. |
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| Note the three of the total six twin 10.5 cm SK C/33 guns. |
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| Lifeboats and anti-aircraft armament visible |
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| View of the German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, the ship that never was |
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| American Essex class aircraft carrier. It constituted the 20th century's most numerous class of capital ships. |
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| Note the variety of numerous anti-aircraft guns |
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| Kondor-class (project 89) minesweeper that was designed in the German Democratic Republic and a heavily armed Frosch class medium tank landing ship |
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| East German Frosch class medium tank landing ship. Some of them still serve with the Indonesian Navy today after modifications |
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| Details of its characteristics and armament |
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| Polish Navy hydrographic vessel Lech and German A14 |
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| Peter the Great, Kirov class nuclear-powered battlecruiser |
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| Pyotr Velikiy battlecruiser, the largest surface combatant in the world today |
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| Details of Pyotr Velikiy battlecruiser. Note that the modellers correctly did notinclude the forward launchers as they have not been installed |
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| Note the SA-N-9 SAM launchers |
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| Details of the superstructure |
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| Kashin class destroyer |
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| Kashin class destroyer Smelyi, later on Polish Navy ORP Warszawa |
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| ORP Warszawa, one of the last ships of the modified Kashin class. In the 1970s was fitted among others with four SS-N-2C Styx anti-ship missiles |
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| Russian KIL-926 (later Aleksandr Pushkin) class mooring/buoy tender |
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| A whole floor with numerous such huge WWII warships, simply amazing! |
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| Yamato, the King of Battleships! |
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| Yamato and her sister ship, Musashi,
were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 in) Type 94 main guns, which were the largest guns ever mounted on a warship! |
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| The impressive anti-aircraft armament all over the decks |
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| Another view of the impressive anti-aircraft armament |
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| The rear armament. Note the giant triple 18.1in gun turret. |
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| The battleship was equipped with two catapults and could carry seven aircraft |
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| View of the stern with the catapults and the aircraft |
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| The increased anti-aircraft armament after the removal of two triple 15.5 cm (6.1 in) guns |
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| Yamato's bridge and superstructure |
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| Details of the armament |
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| Numerous (162!) 2.5 cm AA guns everywhere on Yamato |
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| View from above |
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| Another view from above of one of the most impressive battleships ever built |
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| Tirpitz, a German Navy Bismarck class battleship |
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| There are quadruple 20mm guns even on the upper part of the superstructure. |
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| Ar196 aircraft on a double-ended catapult |
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| This model includes also human figures |
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| The German battleship was armed to the teeth |
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| The rear twin 15in gun turrets |
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| View from above |
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| The characteristics of Tirpitz |
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| The older sister of Tirpitz and more famous than her, Bismarck. |
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| The characteristics of Bismarck battleship |
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| The armament amidships. Notice the absence of the quad torpedo launchers |
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| Note the much lighter AA armament than her younger sister and the different FCS |
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| Another view of the batltleship |
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| The double-ended aircraft catapult |
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| The huge rear 15in gun turrets |
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| Nelson-class battleship HMS Rodney, the fearsome enemy of Bismarck |
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| The Nelson class battleships were the only British battleships with 16in gun turrets, all carried forward of the bridge |
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| The characteristics of HMS Rodney battleship |
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| View of HMS Rodney |
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| View of the boxy superstructure of HMS Rodney |
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| Notice the multiple machine guns and anti-aircraft guns |
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| Close-up photo |
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| Königsberg class light cruiser Karlsruhe |
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| The forward triple 15 cm SK C/25 gun turret |
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| The rear triple 15 cm SK C/25 gun turrets |
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| Anti-aircraft armament |
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| One of the four triple torpedo tube mounts located amidships |
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| The bridge of Karlsruhe |
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| Deutschland class cruiser ("pocket battleship") Lutzow (former Deutschland) |
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| Description of Lutzow cruiser |
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| I was really not aware that German WWII warships had so many AA guns. There is even a gun on the mast! |
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| Multiple AA guns of Lutzow |
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| The rear 11in gun turret and the quad 21in torpedo launchers. There are even more AA guns at the stern. |
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| 5.9in single gun turrets |
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| Another view of the foremast (tower) |
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| HMS Hood, the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy |
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| The 262-meter "Mighty Hood" sank within 3 minutes during the Battle of the Denmark Strait with the loss of all but three of her crew! |
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| The Tone-class cruisers were the last heavy cruisers completed for the Imperial Japanese Navy. |
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| The Tones were equipped with 8 x 8in guns in four twin gun turrets all of them installed forward of the bridge (forecastle). |
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| The unusual arrangement of the gun turrets in order to leave space for aircraft facilities at the aft section. |
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| Secondary armament amidships. |
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| A maximum of eight floatplanes could be carried! |
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| The last British battleship, the elegant and powerful HMS Vanguard |
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| Vanguard was the biggest and fastest of the Royal Navy's battleships, the last battleship to be launched in the world, and the only ship of her class. |
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| Note the MkVI sextuple 40mm Bofors gun mountings as well as the single MkVII 40mm Bofors gun mountings. |
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| The two forward 15in gun turrets. The turret in B position has atop a STAAG MkII twin 40mm Bofors gun mounting with 262 FCS |
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| Details of the various FCS and AA weapons amidships |
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| The stern with an MkVI sextuple 40mm Bofors gun mounting and three single MkVII 40mm Bofors gun mountings. |
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| Scharnhorst battlecruiser (just large cruiser for some) |
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| Her two of the total three triple 11in gun turrets |
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| The weapon arrangement amidships. Note the quadruple Flak gun atop the forward twin 15 cm/55 (5.9") SK C/28 gun turret |
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| Scharnhorst was equipped with two triple 21in torpedo launchers |
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| Check the AA guns around the funnel! |
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| Characteristics of Scharnhorst |
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| The aft triple gun turret and numerous single 2 cm/65 (0.79") C/30/38 guns |
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| View from above |
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| Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser |
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| Bow view of an Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser |
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| Nürnberg light cruiser |
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| Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser, probably Admiral Hipper herself |
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| Nürnberg light cruiser |
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| Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser Blucher |
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| French battleship Richelieu with her unusual armament of two forward quad 15in gun turrets |
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| Battleship Richelieu. Note the numerous 40mm and 20mm anti-aircraft guns she received after being sent to the United States for repairs and an extensive modernization (1943). |
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| Richelieu class battleships, one of the best battleship designs |
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| In the US, two groups of nine 20mm single mountings were installed, the first atop the former aviation hangar (nicknamed «the cemetery»), the second abaft the wavebreaker on the fore castle (nicknamed «the trench»). |
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| Lifeboats amidships. Note that there were almost everywhere installed 20mm guns |
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| At least four 20mm single guns on the superstructure, higher than the conning tower |
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| Details of the conning tower and mast |
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| Amidships there were 12 x 100mm (3.9 inch) twin AA gun turrets |
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| Characteristics of Richelieu |
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| Quad Bofors 40mm (1.6 in) guns installed on the stern |
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| 20 mm battery atop the triple 152mm (6in) gun turret on the quarter deck |
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| The Oerlikons abaft the wavebreaker on the fore castle, nicknamed «the trench» |
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| View from above. The Richelieus were some of the few battleships without torpedo launchers. |
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| Another view of (perhaps my favorite..) battleship Richelieu |
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| The Bayern class was a class of four super-dreadnought battleships built by the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). Only two were completed, Bayern and Baden |
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| Along with her sister Bayern, Baden was the largest and most powerfully armed battleship built by the Imperial Navy. They were 180m long and armed with four twin 15in gun turrets. |
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| Note the absence of anti-aircraft armament |
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| The general characteristics of Baden |
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| Derfflinger class battlecruiser, Hindenburg |
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| The general characteristics of battlecruiser Hindenburg |
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| Battlecruiser Seydlitz |
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| Battlecruiser Seydlitz |
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| There were not only surface warships but dozens of submarines. However, I am not a big fan of submariens so you will enjoy very few photos |
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| Cutaway of a Type 212 submarine |
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| SSBN Le Redoutable |
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| Agosta submarine |
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| Agosta submarine |
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| Agosta submarine |
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| A German naval base in WWII |
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| Israeli Dolphin class submarine |
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| Russian Akula II submarine |
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| Dozens of other submarines |
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| Surcouf was the largest French cruiser submarine (and quite unusual one..) |
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| The Americans with the mighty Iowas |
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| Iowa class battleship, view from above |
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| The sister ship of HMS Rodney, HMS Nelson |
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| HMS Nelson |
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| Close-up photo of the armament of HMS Nelson |
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| Austro-Hungarian Navy Tegetthoff class battleship |
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| The main armament consisted of four triple 12in guns |
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| Austro-Hungarian Radetzky class battleship |
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| The Royal Navy in 1896 |
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| The Royal Navy in 1896 |
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| "Our First Line of Defence" in 1896 |
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| A US Monitor gun turret |
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| Thousands of ship miniatures in display! |
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| Thousands of ship miniatures in display! |
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| Thousands of ship miniatures in display of every possible type of the past and today's |
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| Miniatures of warships from almost every navy in the world! |
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| The Kiel Naval Base during the occasion of the centenary of Kiel Canal in 1995 |
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| Description of this marvelous diorama |
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| The Kiel Naval Base in 1995 |
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| The foreign warships which visited the base to celebrate the centenary of Kiel Canal |
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| Various foreign warships which visited the base to celebrate the centenary of Kiel Canal |
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| Various foreign warships which visited the base to celebrate the centenary of Kiel Canal |
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| Diorama of Nelson's victory at Cape Trafalgar! |
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| "England expects that every man will do his duty" became legendary |
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| Another view of the diorama |
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| Ship miniatures of Tiger class, Andrea DOria and Vittorio Veneto cruisers |
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| Novgorod was a monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1870s. She was one of the most unusual warships ever constructed |
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| Popov's circular design. It still survives in popular naval myth as one of the worst warships ever built. |
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| Details of Novgorod |
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| An armed river boat |
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| 18cm Armstrong cannon |
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| Information about the cutaway |
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| Russian Gangut class battleship |
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| The characteristics of a Gangut class battleship. |
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| Gangut in her final configuration and after several upgrades |
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| Gangut (1915-1956) , one of the fery few battleships of Russia in WWs |
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| The Gangut battleship was renamed later Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya |
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| Gangut was named after the Russian victory over the Swedish Navy in the Battle of Gangut in 1714 |
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| Her main armament consisted of four triple 12in (305mm) guns and 16 single 4.7in (120mm) guns |
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| Gangut battleship profile |
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| Other ships |
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