Seeking Plans of Cargo/Military Transport Ship SS Alicante

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Hi there,

I�m trying to track down some plans for SS Alicante (sister ship SS Castellon).

Alicante was a cargo ship built in 1934 by Deutsche Werft A. G., Betrieb Finkenw�rder, Hamburg. She was part of the convoy that transported AFVs of Panzer Regiment 5 from Naples, Italy to Tripoli, Libya in March 1941. She was sunk in Piraeus Harbour, Greece two months later. (https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?134639)

So far I�ve contacted the Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg (https://www.imm-hamburg.de/) in an effort to get a hold of plans but no dice.

Although I�m not new to model making by any stretch I am a total newb when it comes to scratch building ships and the search for plans etc. On that note, I would be really grateful for any suggestions on how I might be able to track down the plans I�m after as I�m pretty much flying blind right now!

Thanks for reading!

Alex

[Alex_D]

Sorry the question above is from me (it seemed to post without logging me in)

[Guest]

Alex,

You may need to think little more "vertically/laterally" with this one. The builders of ALICANTE merged with Howaldtswerke to become Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in 1968. The yard at Finkenwerder was closed in 1985. The company operates from Kiel and is now a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. Provided that the drawings of the ship survived allied action during WW2, the company at Kiel might have them in its archive. I suggest that you write/e-mail them: in German if you are able to.

Details of the ship can be found in Volume 7 of Gr�ner's "Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815 - 1945" (German language book) but there is no small scale drawing in the book.

[Alex_D]

Alex,

You may need to think little more "vertically/laterally" with this one. The builders of ALICANTE merged with Howaldtswerke to become Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in 1968. The yard at Finkenwerder was closed in 1985. The company operates from Kiel and is now a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. Provided that the drawings of the ship survived allied action during WW2, the company at Kiel might have them in its archive. I suggest that you write/e-mail them: in German if you are able to.

Details of the ship can be found in Volume 7 of Gr�ner's "Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815 - 1945" (German language book) but there is no small scale drawing in the book.

Thanks so much for the help - Much appreciated!

The Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft website (http://www.hdw.de/) seems unresponsive so I'll try the ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems one instead (https://www.thyssenkrupp-marinesystems.com/en). My good friend and business partner is a German native so I'll ask her to kindly translate my email request into German

Thanks for the heads up on the book too - I managed to find a copy.

Cheers,

Alex