Blohm and Voss Ha 139 floatplane - photo

Blohm and Voss Ha 139 floatplane from the late 1930s. Only three were built.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...555#post174069
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...197#post157801
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...910#post179454
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...182#post157720
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...806#post175135

So - that ship on the left is labeled Swabenland. That relates to Swabia, one of the Duchies in Germany.

The boat is a seaplane launch ship. This ship was part of the 1938-1939 Third German Antarctic Expedition. They were on an expedition to establish Neu-Schwabenland. The Germans were looking for sources of oils (they didn’t want to depend on Norway) and wanted to set up a whaling base so they could supplement oil/fat production for the war effort.