Step 61/140: Navigation lights are now installed, with internal LEDs and optical fibers guiding the light. The air wing also welcomes its ninth Ju 87 Stuka.

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A sailor aboard the Kriegsmarine battleship Gneisenau takes a snapshot of the rough seas. In front of him, a portside amidship 10.5cm AA mount.

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Step 60/140: Hull complete! The 130 cm all-metal hull now weighs 4.8 kg. Glad to leave endless metal panels and hard-to-reach screws behind.

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Aboard the German Panzerschiff Deutschland, a Heinkel He 60 float plane is being moved by the ship’s port-side crane.

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In Kiel, Germany in the early 1941, a sailor gets snapshot of the ice surrounding the battleship Scharnhorst. It does provided a closeup view of the top of the armor belt.

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Step 59/140: Starboard hull complete. Once the next section is installed, the build can finally move on to the more exciting stages.

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From very late in WW2, a pair of snapshots from the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer. A likely photo of Captain Ernst Ludwig Thienemann, and the funnel with a search light & the mast.

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Step 58/140: Port-side stern hull section installed. Tightening screws in the cramped stern is challenging, but only two hull sections remain until completion.

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Mergulhadores encontram raro barco da Segunda Guerra após 13 anos de buscas - Aventuras na História - https://www.rfr.bz/b9f7a4778

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On or after May 30th, 1937, crew of the Panzerschiff Deutschland assess the damage of the upper deck space from a Spanish Republican aerial bomb. 31 sailors would die in the attack.

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Encontrados destroços de submarinos alemães no Mar Báltico: um túmulo marítimo para 80 marinheiros | Euronews - https://www.rfr.bz/bde153bd2

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