Cristiano

No, not Bragadin and neither its class.

It remains only one class and its related submarines...

No, not Pietro Micca.

But:

-Same duty;

-different class.

But since the classes were not so crowded, the solution is at hand.

I think that the photo alone is too difficult, so it is better to start to reduce the class range to be evaluated.

below there is a photo of the stern of the submarines of the class of the unnamed one.

Someone with some nautical and historical knowledge can recognize the purpouse of such stern and "dig" in the Italian submarines list and find the answer (internet contains all the answers!)

No, sorry,

none of the mentioned classes.

It was Italian, yes.

But not of the mentioned class.

A bit tricky I must admit since the configuration in the photo was after an "upgrade"

It seems that the submarines are not so appreciated...

Well, so another tip: it was an Axis one.

If a "cimiterial" silence will persist for a couple of days, I will propose something more classic and that FLOATS!!

Usually submarines are not so easy to recognize, since are very similar each others.

But I think that internet will help a lot.

I focused in the most distinctive part of the ship, which was the turret, and the camouflage pattern.

A starting tip: WW2.

Well, to be honest it appears almost identical to the "Adventure Galley", dated 1698, which was on of the ships of the (unlucky) pirate William Kidd...

...but since you say that no pirates are involved, I say "Charles Galley", dated 1688

Great!

finally a mistery more new than the usual "Mary Celeste" one!!

Hi David,

 

I have been looking quite a long time for the French ship.

I can't find any French Iphigenie's from the steam era. Can you give some more info please?

 

Hello Jan,

probably the informations regarding this ship were taken from this website:

http://kaiser-wilhelm-ii.over-blog.com/article-18-104248139.html

While you are waiting for answer, if you are bored, try this:

-It is a promotional photo of a passenger room;

-it was really a black-white photo;

-the photo is not mirrored;

-the ship was USA made.

Which was the ship name?

the sub-section of the game is called "Cristiano raised the bar level to a new definition of pain"

Almost all of my thoughs are already included in previous other answers, so I will not repeat something that has been already said.

In anycase, if someone want to approach the wooden ships world for the first time, should start absolutely with simple small kits and with a lot of humbleness, since wood sometimes is not so a "smart material" to be managed.

The world is full (and ebay too!!) of big (and costly) ships started by newbies and never finished, due to their willingness collapsed in front of contructions problems never seen before.

Of course I understood (really? it was a challenge in anycase! ), but probably I used not enough smiling emoticons in the answer 

Are you joking???

is it really a question??

do you need really the name of the "thing" on the left??

Ok!

it is called "Rubber Duck" and it is a floating sculpture of the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman.

The photo was taken in Hong Kong.

But please, I refuse to win with such a "ship", so please make another question...   and consider null the present question!

USS Congress (year 1799)?

I found something improved: three funnels instead of two: "City of Rome"

but I suppose cannot be accepted...

but maybe had a sister...

the wood ships modelling allows you to improve a standard kit greatly.

you can add more rigging, accessories, and so on.

but the best results are obtained when you work with a reasonable scale.

that because there is a physical limit on reducing the space occupied by all the rigging involved in a sailing ship.

so when possible, it should be chosed a scale from 1:60 and lower.

a ship with at least 98 guns, possibly royal navy...

Hms Boyne?

Interesting...

I try to "think different":

it is rather similar to the Italian steam ship "Italo Platense"

I don't want to make a list of all the ships launched and sinked this day thorugh the history, but a notable one:

1945:

Nazi Prison ships Cap Arcona and Thielbek were bombed and sinked by RAF fighters and bombers.

7000 to 8000 POW died.

The POW where prisoners of lagers and the nazis project was to send the ships in the open sea and sink them, in order to "hide" living proofs of their athrocities.

The RAF though where enemy troop carriers and bombed them.

The high number of people died was because the nazis sealed each opening and blocked the safety boats.

Ah, yes:

1494:

Cristoforo Colombo discovered Jamaica. He has done it on a ship, I suppose....

2 may + sea = 2 may 1933: this was the date when was reported for the first time the Loch Ness monster!

Not enough naval, I suppose.

Ok: 2 may 1973 was launched the biggest turbine powered container ship ever built in Italy: the "Lloydiana".

It was a milestone for Italy 40 years ago, but now biggest monsters navigate across the oceans...

The Conway book of the Victory has a very very detailed rigging table.

Since the ship still exist, the informations provided are hystorically very correct.

What kind of strange and mysterious drugs are taken by the people that answer to that game???

Their brains works at the speed of light! :D

Or maybe I am just too lazy....

If you are good on scratch building, I can send you by PM the drawings of a Pinco Genovese.

There are enough informations for building the ship model.

The drawing is a table from "Souvenir de Marine" of Admiral Paris, dated 1882.

There is no copyright problem, since the edition was the original one let available by a museum.

Many kit manufacturers take inspirations from this collection...

The model is not expensive if compared to its size and quantity of fittings and wood that compose it.

As for I saw in other forums, the main bad things about this kit are the level of the decorations (only decorations) which are of cheap level.

All the stern windows and stern decorations are made with photoetched sheets, so the final result is rather ugly.

The figurehead is made by fusion, so it is of good quality.

The Superbe belonged to the sunset period of these kind of warships (Hope you understood my english). So they where rather standardised and with a minimal level of decorations.

If you consider to modify and improve the photoetched decorations, it can become a very impressive model.

Note:

Mantua has purchased many years ago some wood plantations in Papua New Guinea.

So the wood for them is cheaper than other kit manufacturers.

Since the Superbe has a lot of wood and few decorations, the final result is a low price kit.