Hinrik

Eduardo,

Did you not get the E-bay Germany link that I e-mailed to you?

Hinrik

I am on a roll....here is it as Hela, showing the Imperial flag, and painted in dark colors:

Eduardo,

Here you go my friend:

Flottentender Gazelle Photo from a postcard.

I will e-mail you where you can buy it for 25 euros.

Regards

Hinrik

Eduardo,

Very nice shells. They dont look recovered from the sea like mine. What 15cm are you talking about? Is that from a KM ship?

Regards

Hinrik

After that was dry I used fiberglas repair mats to fill in the damaged areas on the inside. You can see the holes where I am shining the flashlight through.

Next I need to make a decision if I want to restore the round on the outside, but that would mean I woul have to paint it...and I am not sure about that. What do you guys think?

The case is made from steel and was so pitted that it had holes through it. I beadblasted all rust from inside, then cold galvanized it on inside.

Next step is to put white compound in the letters to make them stick out.

Since this round comes from a sunk U-boat, it needed some work to preserve it. Here I have cold gunblued the base.

Base after beadblasting

10,5 before photo

My 10,5 cm round

C28 Fuze, like fitted on my 10,5cm round.

Old manual page on the stensiling on the projectiles

Hi guys,

My latest find, an original KM marked U-boat 8,8cm projectile,

still with a little of the yellow paint remaining.

Does anyone have good photos of the ammo rounds and the cannisters they were carried in?

I now have 10,5cm / 3,7cm and 2cm ammo from U-boats. Just need the 8,8cm casing! Anyone know of a good one for sale, please let me know.

Regards

Hinrik

Eduardo,

Another beautiful item in your KM collection. What have you found out about the name?

Regards

Hinrik

Chris,

He was a double agent. The Germans thought he was working faithfully for them...but he was not.

I dont think he has the award documents anymore, but will ask. Upon reading his autobiograhpy (Icelandic only) it seams he thought that the British Intelligence had him send the location of the PQ-17 convoy, which was attacked by a U-boat "wolf pack" with great destruction. He thinks that this was done so that the Germans would give more credibility to his reports.

Later he was instructed to send a report related a fictional convoy near Norway, that was suposed to be without any armed escort ships. This he thinks was to trick the Germans to send the battleship Sharnhorst after the "convoy" but insted there were cruisers waiting for it and sank it.

I need to read his book again to get the facts straight, but apperently the Germans valued his reports and thought he was the real deal. All the other spies sent to Iceland were captured. Ib Riis had a though time in Iceland, because some of the locals found out about his U-boat arrival and thought him to be a real German spy. He was sometimes verbally attacked in the street. He was under orders from the British not to tell anyone anything, so his cover as a double agent would not be blown.

Regards

Hinrik

Story:

A number of men where landed from U-boats to spy for the Nazi?s warmachine in WWII. One of them was named Ib Riis and was Icelandic / Danish. He was contacted by the Abwehr in Dannmark and forced to work for them. He was a ships captain and radioman before the war. He was unhappy with this arrangement and promised to give himself up to the British in Iceland, first thing he would arrive.

He was sent on U-252 to Norway and then on to Iceland. He landed in the remote peninsula of Langanes, 6 April, 1942. He burried his gun and radio, in seperate holes and started a long hike in bad weather, finally 17 hours later making to a local farm for shelter. He was interogated by the British in Reykjavik and then flown back to the landing site to find the raido, but he did not tell them about the gun.

Mr. Riis was given the cover of a Royal Navy officer and spent the next 3 years sending fake massages to his German handlers. He was involved in historically important events like the destruction of the PQ-17 convoy and battleship Sharnhorst. It seams the Germans never suspected him being a double agent. Ironically, for his "service" to the Germans, he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class.

3 monrhs ago I was sucessful in contacting Mr. Riis, aged 91! After some correspondance and phonecalls, he has aggred to donate his Iron Crosses to my museum project! The reason the crosses survived the war, was because they were sent to his parents in Dennmark, along with his pay which keept his parents alive throughout the war.

Once I have the crosses in hand, I will post photos of them. To the best of my knowladge, Ib Riis is the only Icelander in history to be officially awarded both the Iron Cross 1. and 2. class. A truely remarkable find for my collection. Next summer I am taking a map which Mr. Riis has marked in the location of his burried gun, and I will attempt to find it, using a metal detector and GPS. He says he burried in in the leather holster wrapped in an oil cloth and shirt.

Regards

Hinrik

Thanks guys

Hinrik

"FLL" badge needle

"FLL" makers mark

Costal Artillery Badge by "FLL"

Needle

Makers mark

Hi guys,

Just wanted to ask your opinion on these 2 KM badges that I recently got. First is a nice looking High Seas badge, made by "Fec Adolf Bock, Ausf Schwerin-Berlin"

Second is a Costal Artillery badge, by maker "FLL"

Both badges are in really nice condition with ca 99% gilt.

Regards

Hinrik

On a friendlier note, I would like to say that my 12 day visit to Rio de Janeiro was great fun. I was lucky enough to enjoy the hospitality of our member Rendersburg (Otto) and we went to a nice Aiviaiton museum together and I had a nice dinner in his home, with his family.

I encourage other members to meet up like this.

Obrigado amigo

Hinrik