DANISH BRAVES

It would be a good idea if we could record the where abouts of the Danish Braves as we already knowthat BRAVE STALLION is on the market, it may be that this ties in with another section in the forum.

For a starter I have the following images of the boats in service.

P510  Soloven

P511 Soridderen

P512 Sobjornen

P513 ?

P514 Sohunden

P515  Soulven

Here is the link for BRAVE STALLION

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/pl_boat_detail.jsp?&a mp;units=Feet&checked_boats=1288475&slim=broker& &hosturl=jbyachts&&ywo=jbyachts

Hello D-Zine,

The name of Danish Brave P513 was 'Sohesten'. The first 2 (P510 -511) were built by Messrs Vosper at Portsmouth UK the remainder by 'The Royal Dockyard' Copenhagen. 'Christian's' Link above shows a great shot of their first build, P512 'Sobjornen' slipped. Beautiful lines I'm sure you will agree

Regards

Hello d-zine

Both of the Federal German Naval boats -then named 'Strahl' and 'Pfiel' - (the 'Brave' and 'Ferocity' types) - were sold to the Hellenic Navy. These were later purchased as a 'spares pool' for Brave Challenger (the ex-Fast Yacht 'Mercury') which at July 2006 can be occasionally seen at Gun Wharf Portsmouth UK.(see 'Brave Challenger' under Brave Class 'previous six months') Both Hulls were 'broken' I am informed.

Regarding the different Superstructure profiles - Brave Swordsman has the 'square' profile while Brave Borderer has the larger 'rounded' profile later adopted for the export versions and Scimitar class. These were the developing 'prototypes' of a class that were to be exported to several Nations as you rightly state

Here is Vosper built P-510 Soloven;

http://www.boatquest.com/Commercial/Day-Passenger/Category/L ength/46663/Feet/USD/1/boats.aspx

An update re P-510 Soloven, from Ionian-Cruises (who also operate ex-RN Ham Class IMS Sandringham as Sotirakis);