In a letter dated 13 April 1942 No. 1329 to the O.K.M./1 Abteilung Skl. was the so-called ‘Etappen’-organisation of the navy described. In the attachment were the blockade runners decribed used for this purpose. [Norwegian] Motor tanker Ole Jacob renamed Benno. Captured by H.S.K. 16 and brought in to KObe on 11 November 1940, on 5 December 1940 her cargo of aircraft petrol at a U-point delivered and became an escort tanker for the auxiliary cruisers H.S.K. 33 and 36, left Kobe, Japan on 6 December 1940, arrived at Bordeaux, France on 19 July 1941
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Bundesarchiv RM 7/223
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