Pick the ship

[SchwarzKatze]

Regele-Ferdinand, ordered by Romania, built by Italy with a British design, armed with Swedish guns and German FC, and was captured by the USSR.

 

[05060403]

I think we have a winner

 

[Wyrm]

Regele-Ferdinand, ordered by Romania, built by Italy with a British design, armed with Swedish guns and German FC, and was captured by the USSR.

The pic of this ship from the same class would suggest you are fairly correct.

 

[SchwarzKatze]

I think we have a winner

Thanks to you putting me on the Balkan trail I thought the situation was that the buyer couldn't pay and the builder ended up selling it to the highest bidder.

 

[05060403]

Maybe when Axe is offline the winner should be able to post the next picture. It's just an idea floating in my head. What do you guys think?

 

[SchwarzKatze]

Will do in a moment, the photos of the one I have in mind have crappy quality, lemme see if I can sharpen them up.
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Edit: freak ship incoming

 

[SchwarzKatze]

It seems that editing doesn't bump so here it is.

 

[05060403]

Well this is a... weird ship.

 

[05060403]

Any clues?

Also I think we should really start asking questions.

Did it serve in the Pacific?

 

[SchwarzKatze]

The two pictures are taken from a bomber attacking it. It survived the encounter but was finally scuttled after running aground.

 

[05060403]

The armament on the plan looks very Japanese to me. Is it a Japanese ship?

 

[SchwarzKatze]

Yes.

 

[Swinds]

looks like they forgot the front of the ship

 

[PanosB3]

The Greek destroyer Andrias?

 

[SchwarzKatze]

looks like they forgot the front of the ship

Yes

The Greek destroyer Andrias?

It's Japanese, see above.

 

[Wyrm]

Hm, from the looks of it it is some sort of river-going craft. Almost looks like a barge.

Been looking through both Japanese naval and army craft and still have not found a match... This is a tricky one

 

[SchwarzKatze]

It's not supposed to be like that, but rather ended up like that.

 

[Sun_Killer]

Maybe a Akizuki or a Yügumo with a huge part missing in front.

 

[naisel]

Amatsukaze, "remodelled" after surviving a torpedo attack.

 

[Axe99]

Regele-Ferdinand, ordered by Romania, built by Italy with a British design, armed with Swedish guns and German FC, and was captured by the USSR.

Great work SchwarzKatze, and great (awesome, indeed!) ship pic posted afterwards . Nice guessing everyone else as well .

I deffo agree people should feel free to post up new pics when the last one has been guessed. That said, as I'd say Naisel is on the money (very impressive work ), here's the best ship I could come up with, with a Christmas reference in one of the ship names in the class, Merry Christmas all .

Edit: For a second clue, I had to expand the scope to ships that served in the timespan of HoI4, not just those there at the start - apologies for any confusion.