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Tuesday, 22 April 2025

German naval auxiliary supply ship ms Elsa Esberger in 1940-1941

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. Supply ship to the auxiliary cruiser H.S.K. 36, left Kobe, Japan on 2 December 1940, returned at Kobe on 25 December 1940. Idem for the South America ships Oscorno, Rhakotis, Quito and Bogota. Left Kobe on 7 May 1941, arrived at Yokohama on 9 July 1941.

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Bundesarchiv RM 7/223 

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