Ciao all,
ok first of all I need to provide you a legenda to read thru the yearly evolution of Gneisenau.
The Gneisenau had 8 major refit works done on her, so starting from the base drawing, it will be 8 more so a total of 9 base drawings for ship technical modifications.
Each base drawing scheme as been consequently indentified with a number fron 1 to 9, so GU1, GU2, etc etc till GU 9 which is the last one.
On
of those 9 base drawings there have been various camouflages applyed, that I have identified with alphabetical letters, from A to V proggresively.
Those ship evolution plans basically explain the whole ship modification and hopefully provide you a clear way to read the attached schemes.
Please keep in mind that this is a never ending research work, as by putting out my work I hope to stimulate more discussion, have persons with addittional informations contacting me, maybe survivors looking at them and gave som einputs and so on.... so our future knowledge will hopefully grow more.
This is my final goal, learning more and preventing the memoy of those beautiful ships to disappear, while helping everybody to learn and know them.
Enjoy the ship
Ciao Antonio
