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My next model will be a wine tanker I used to see in my town Sete. I found it funny. In the fities and sixties the wine produced in south of France was low in degree alcohol and quality, Sicilian and Algerian wines were imported and mixed with local wine to get a higher degree of alcohol. And Alvin (ex Augusta, ex Marie des fleurs, ex M20) arrived once a week loaded with sicilian wine.
On the first pic you can see Alvin Sicily bound passing in fron of my house around 1966.

Did you know it was an ex-monitor back then?

I was around 15, but I had heard dockers say that she was an ex warship and that she had concrete reinforcement in the bows. I learned her origin 15 years ago only

Interesting ... and the reason that these wines had a bad reputation for many years - good for export to Britain

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Eberhard

Former chairman Arbeitskreis historischer Schiffbau e.V. (German Association for Shipbuilding History)

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Now they make good quality wine instead of quantity

JSC makes an 1/400 model of another tanker conversion, Delapan (ex M19). Getting that model may help in makiing this one. https://jsc.pl/en/jsc-models/297-britis ... c-407.html

Thank you, I did not know that