Maling

This article covers the painting of ships and boats. For further meanings, see Maling (disambiguation) .

In nautical sociolect, a maling describes a painting or drawing attached to ships or boats. For example, malings have the function of mascots on surface units of the navies, on the tower of a submarine or occasionally on merchant ships .

One example is the snorting bull at U 47 of Günther Prien .

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  Tower maling from U 47

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  Tower maling from U 96

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  Uboot-Maling catch the hat of U 995

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0826-9 , p. 55.