Tuossa Guernseyn patterin nimeämisessä taittaa tuossa olla pieni väärinkäsitys:Komendantti wrote:The last cargo vessel the Nina, after which the Guernsey battery would be named, sailed for Genoa on the 26th February, calling at Gibraltar and an English port en route. Arriving in Norwegian waters on 11th March, the guns were still on board the Nina when the German Army overran Norway the following month. The cargo was unloaded at Bergen, and the four guns taken to Friedrich Krupp A.G. at Essen.
Three Finnish freighters arrived in Tunisia to transport the weapons. Two of the ships made it through dangerous wartime waters to reach the port of Pestamo and the Finns received eight of the large 12 inch guns but none of the smaller 130 mm guns from these ships. Two of the 12 inch guns were emplaced at Fort Isosaari where they still reside today as museum pieces and two were at Fort Makiluoto but were uncompleted.The Finns used the weapons as coastal defense artillery and railway guns during world war two and kept some of them in working order as late as 1970.
The third ship Finnish ship, the Nina, was captured by the Germans in the port of Bergen when they occupied Norway in April 1940. They released the ship back to the Finns but impounded its cargo of four 12 inch guns and 18 of the smaller 130mm’s. The quartet of Russian 12 inch guns were sent to fortify the captured British Channel Island of Guernsey. The battery was spread out in four separate sites along the island’s west coast. The ground was broken on the site in November 1941, and by April of 1942 the guns were ready. They were collectively known as Battery Mirus.
The 18 smaller 130 mm guns captured by the Germans in Norway remained there through the war. These guns were mounted throughout the Atlantic Wall and referred to as ”Nina”-Geschütze (Nina Guns).
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