Belgian Navy Minesweeper Lobelia M921 Walk Around. -
During September 2009
New York City
celebrated the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in what
is now
New York
Harbor
.
Hudson
’s ship, the Half Moon, sailed
north along what the river that would bear his name in search of a northeast
passage only to arrive at what is present day
Albany
before he turned around. His voyage
was used to establish Dutch claims to the region and to the fur trade that
prospered there when a trading post was established at
Albany
in 1614. New Amsterdam in
Manhattan
became the capital of
New Netherlands
in 1625.
As part of this celebration a flotilla of NATO vessels
visited
New York City
. These vessels, mostly mine countermeasure ships and some destroyers were
participating in Standing NATO Mine Counter Measure Group 1 (SNMCMG1) exercises.
One of the ships was the Belgian Lobelia M921,
which is a Tripartite class mine
hunter. I took a series of
photos that I hope will be useful to anyone wishing to build the 1/350 or 1/400
scale kit from L’Arsenal which contains decals for ships of this
class serving in the French, Belgian and Dutch navies.
Felix Bustelo
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