MLU FORUM  

Go Back   MLU FORUM > MILITARY VEHICLES > The Armour Forum

Notices

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 09-11-24, 23:03
David Dunlop David Dunlop is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Posts: 3,488
Default Postwar Hamburg Germany

I ran across this photo yesterday on line. No idea of the original source.

What surprised me was the surplus was not German, but Allied. Quite a variety of Sherman’s sitting there and it looks as if they have all lost their turrets by this point. Interesting the pile has been topped off with Stuart surplus.

I wonder if this was a private scrap yard, or government disposal site?


David
Attached Thumbnails
4E1B42FB-0C5B-4A47-88C3-E35085219504.jpeg  
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 10-11-24, 12:39
Jakko Westerbeke Jakko Westerbeke is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: Apr 2020
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 325
Default

They look like ex-American tanks to me, I don’t see any British features like spare track racks on the hull fronts.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 11-11-24, 00:01
Hanno Spoelstra's Avatar
Hanno Spoelstra Hanno Spoelstra is offline
MLU Administrator
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 14,697
Default Deutsche Werft shipyard, Hamburg, Germany

This is what I found about about it a while ago and posted on the Sherman Register page:

Sherman and Stuart tank hulls stacked up high, ready for scrapping shortly after WW2 at "Deutsche Werft" shipyard, Hamburg, Germany.
This shipyard was established in 1918 and built 113 submarines during WW2. Next to German labourers, the yard used several thousand forced labourers from countries including the Soviet Union, Poland, Belgium, France and Denmark. It could well be these labourers were set to work to dismantle the victor's tools of war.
Source: from a file held at the Kew Archives found by Craig Moore. Added three more photos via TankHistoria


The location of the former shipyard is known today as the Rüsch Park.

Click image for larger version

Name:	282022487_5134902926588650_6235899037331806323_n.jpg
Views:	0
Size:	157.8 KB
ID:	139051

Click image for larger version

Name:	404507806_661754009279507_8607138030933585607_n.jpg
Views:	4
Size:	69.2 KB
ID:	139053

Click image for larger version

Name:	404526595_661754045946170_975843509136400462_n.jpg
Views:	5
Size:	170.0 KB
ID:	139054

Click image for larger version

Name:	404536178_661753999279508_540865143024302409_n.jpg
Views:	6
Size:	137.9 KB
ID:	139055
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 11-11-24, 11:11
David Herbert David Herbert is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland - previously Suffolk
Posts: 557
Default

The pile of engines is I think largely aircraft engines. I can not see any that I can identify as Sherman or Stuart and there are a number that are twin row radials (DC3?).

I have seen the first photo before of the pile of Shermans topped off with Stuarts and I still find it very sad.

David
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 11-11-24, 12:16
Jakko Westerbeke Jakko Westerbeke is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: Apr 2020
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 325
Default

Interesting too how many different ages of tanks are in there. In the photo where they’re cutting up the Sherman hull, it’s a fairly late one with outboard lifting eyes (meaning late 1944 or so production), while the lower hull in the foreground is an rivetted one, which means it must have been made in 1942 by Pressed Steel Car Company.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Wanted: Postwar Mk. iI chinstraps Clint Tauber For Sale Or Wanted 0 02-08-23 08:35
CMPs from all over postwar mike mckinley The Softskin Forum 94 19-02-23 15:22
Dodge postwar David_Hayward (RIP) The Softskin Forum 20 27-01-11 18:54
Postwar Loyd Users ajmac The Carrier Forum 6 12-07-10 19:39
Postwar CMP Kuno Post-war Military Vehicles 3 08-05-07 17:48


All times are GMT +2. The time now is 22:36.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © Maple Leaf Up, 2003-2016