as promised here another photo for everybody to evaluate.
This time it is Nh 69729 and it shows Bismarck firing to port side while the photo shows a piece of Prinz Eugen railing.
You can clearly see that the railing is a foldable one, I mean one of the railing were the post can be taken down to the deck and the chain passes thru the holes on the post.Question : were was the photographer Lagemann when this photo was taken ?
Prinz Eugen had 2 main types of railings, those foldable ones and on some area there were fixed structured ones not foldable, like for example on the 105 mm A/A gun platforms.
Another input is that Prinz Eugen during the Denmark Strait battle and Op. Rheinubung in general had most of the main deck and upper deck foldable railings closed down.
So they were placed down on the deck and consequently they cannot be taken into a photo obviously.
The one showed in this photo is on the opened up position.
Many inputs on other photos showing Prinz Eugen stern area with all the railings folded down are available on the Nh 69722 post.
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On that post you can also find a very important reference to Prinz Eugen drawings as well ( large files but very detailed ).
http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/plans ... ugen_1940/
Here the photo :
Again,... were was Lagemann with his 35 mm photo camera ?
... and which direction was Prinz Eugen sailing ?
This photo is part of a sequence of many similar photos, and of course this is only a part of the entire photo that is much larger been taken with a 35 mm film and 50 mm lens.
Let me take the occasion to thank again my friend Wadinga ( Sean ) for having explained at first the logic of this photo's to me .
Now I am only trying to have you realizing same things he explained me by yourself .
Ciao Antonio