1. Internet user: Please let me know your source of information about ALTMARK that you have shown with FRANKEN images. Are they one series vessels?
Both Altmark and Franken were same Dithmarschen class vessels specially designed for Kriegsmarine. Altmark was damaged but she has not sunk in 1940 in Norway. After torpedo attack she has been towed to Germany and after reparation renamed to UCKERMARK. She has sunk after explosion nearby Yokohama, Japan in 1942. 53 men lost thier lives. It goes with out saying that vessels in some part were diferent but no that much so we can't think of different constructions.
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