gun forward, and a heavy close-in anti-aircraft armament of one 3.7 cm SK C/30 gun and ten 2 cm guns. Barbara served with the Naval Anti-Aircraft and Coastal Artillery School from January 1942, and from June 1943, served with the Navy anti-aircraft school at the port of Swinemünde, in addition to acting as a support ship for a flotilla of R boats (motor minesweepers). The ship was recaptured in October 1945 by the British, and was returned to Belgium at the port of Ostend by a crew of the Royal Navy Belgian Section. It was reassigned to the Belgian Navy and the 105 mm gun was removed. In 1946, when the Belgian Navy was reformed, the ship was renamed Breydel and resumed its activity as a fishery protection vessel in 1947. Too dilapidated to carry out the new tasks of the Belgian Navy, it was retired in 1949 and scrapped in 1950. Notes References External links Zinnia/Breydel sur site Belgian Navy site battleships-cruisers.co.uk Zinnia sur site marinebelge.be 1915 ships Ships of the Kriegsmarine Sloops of the Royal Navy Naval ships of Belgium Ship names