File talk:Rigel sinking, V-boat burning 1944.jpg

The burning ship on the right is unlikely to be the 260 foot, 1741 GRT Korsnes and is more likely one of the two much smaller V-boat escorts. --Cosal (talk) 04:50, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

@Manxruler: Did you have any source when uploading the file or was it just your assumption? I'd like to move the file to File:Rigel sinking 1944.jpg or similar. Any objections? --тнояsтеn ⇔ 12:18, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

The description of this foto on the website of the Imperial War Museum (http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205016159) does not identify the ship on the right by any name. (However, it also erroneously states that the attacking planes were Fairey Barracudas; the Barracudas had in fact been replaced on 8 November 1944 by the Seafires of No. 30 Naval Fighter Wing.) --Cosal (talk) 18:58, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

I'd guess that I've seen the image in question used in books, with a description that suggests Korsnes is in the image. Will need to check that. As for alternatives to Korsnes, the convoy consisted of Rigel, Korsnes, a Norwegian merchant vessel named Graakallen, a German ship called Spree, and two escorts. Manxruler (talk) 23:08, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

A bit of additional information: Graakallen was a 35 GRT motorvessel confiscated by the Germans and put into service as a harbor protection boat with the Sandnessjøen Hafenschutz flotilla; Spree (ex Vorwärts) was a submarine chaser, initially with the U-Boot-Abwehrschule in Bergen, then with 17. U-bootjagdsflottille and finally with 55. Vorpostenflottille (http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/vboote/vfl51-61.htm). --Cosal (talk) 20:54, 16 November 2015 (UTC)