An item reported that on 22 March was lost due to bombs thrown by enemy aircraft the British steam trawler St. Fistan, tonnage 495 tons, loaded with -, underway from Drogheda, Ireland to Cardiff, Wales, part of convoy not, on the position 7 miles west north west of Smalls. All crew members missing.
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National Archive UK. CAB-66-16-1.
An item reported the loss on 17 November of the British cargo ship St. Germain, tonnage 1,044 tons, loaded with pit props, underway from Portugal to Port Talbot, Wales sunk by a submarine on the position 35 miles north west of the Bloody Foreland.(1) Not part of a convoy.
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1. The Bloody Foreland or Cnoc Fola is a red colored headland in County Donegal along the Atlantic Ocean, Ireland near the Parish of Gweedore.
Source
National Archive UK. CAB-66-13-37.
Harlingen, Netherlands 29 April 2026
Netherlands-flagged, IMO 9269611, ENI 02720228, MMSI 244296000, call sign PBJN. NB-234. Ordered in October 2001, laid down by ASB Aluminium&Steel Boats, Harwood, New South Wales, launched on 10 June 2002 and delivered to Rederij Doeksen, Terschelling on 12 June 2002. Ferry between Harlingen and Terschelling.
Gross tonnage 3,480 tons. Underway from Penarth to Sasebo. Type cargo coal. Seized in the Red Sea on 19 February 1904, released on 28 February. ty. The war between the Russian and Japanese empires was between 8 February 1904-5 September1905.
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Official history (Naval and Military) of the Russo-Japanese War. Vol. II. Liao Yang, the Sha Ho, Port Arthur. Prepared by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. London, 1912.
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Call sign JKUB. Launched by W. Dobson&Co., Walker yard, Newcastle, England with yard number 132 on 16 February 1904, completed in March 1904 and broken up in 1951. Owner Hungarian Levavnt Steamship Co. Ltd., Fiume 1904-1913, Chine Steamship Co. Ltd. (HG Harper&Co.), Cardiff, Wales 1913-1918, Thordis Shipping Co. Ltd. (J. Slater,), London, England 1918-1919, John Slater Ltd., London 1919, Penmark Shipping Co. Ltd., (D.E. Radcliffe), Cardiff, Wales 1919-1921, L. Chantrier et E. Dubi, Dieppe, France 1921-1924, Morihei Kisen KK, Amagasaki, Japan 1924-1945, Yamamoto Kisen KK, Osaka, Japan 1945-1950 and Japanese government 1950-1951. Homeport Nagasaki, Japan. Gross tonnage 2,515 tons, under 2,158 deck tons, net tonnage 1,856 tons, deadweight 4,100 tons and as dimensions 300.5 x 45.0 x 19.6 x 9’6” (light)-19 (loaded) feet. Reciprocating propulsion, single screw, 150 nhp, speed 8 (cruising)-10.5 (maximum) knots.
An item reported that in the week 7-14 December 1939 in the Western Approaches just two merchant ships were lost despite the presumed presence of 2 or more German submarines. The British merchant ship ss Brandon was part of a convoy when she was torpedoed and sunk. (1) From the air and by a destroyer escort was the submarine attacked although with unknown results.
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1. The Dutch newspaper Het volksdagblad dated 11 December 1939 reported that the 6,668 tons Brandon sunk off the British west coast after she was torpedoed. The Limburger koerier dated 11 December wrote that her crew numbered 43 men of which 9 were killed. Torpedoed by the German submarine U-48 on 8 December 1939 around 120 miles west of Lands End underway from Cardiff to Port Everglades, Florida, USA.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-66-4-13 Weekly Résumé (No. 15) of the naval, military and air situation from 0700 7 December to 0700 14 December 1939.
An item dated London 1 October reported that 5 German colliers left the day before Cardiff and Newport with as destination Porto Praga. It was believed that the ships loaded coal for the Russian squadron bound for the Far East.
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1. Russo-Japanese War 8 February 1904-5 September 1905
An item dated The Hague, Netherlands 1 March reported that the day before the Japanese steam ship Sado Maru loaded with coal left Cardiff, Wales probably via the Cape.(1)
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1. Russo-Japanese War 8 February 1904-5 September 1905.
Call sign JBJA. Launched by Russell&Co., Kingston Yard, Port Glasgow, Scotland with yard number 409 on 8 November 1897, completed in January 1898, captured by the Japanese auxiliary cruiser Nippon Maru off the Etofuru Strait underway from Cardiff to Vladivostok loaded with coal, on 4 March 1905, condemned in a prize court and sunk after striking a mine off Fukushima on 6 March 1945. Gross tonnage 3,945 tons, under deck 3,648 tons, net tonage 2,849 tons, deadweight 6,250 tons and as dimensions 344.9 x 49.8 x 17.8 x 10.5 (light)-22.7 (loaded) feet. Reciprocating propulsion, 46 nhp horsepower, single screw, coal bunker capacity 799 tons, range 6,200 miles/8.5 knots and speed 8.5 (normal cruising)-9.5 (maximum) knots.
An item reported that a shipyard in Wales, United Kingdom built six stern trawlers for the state owned Ghana Fishing Corporation. Three would be fitted out with 6 cylinder diesels with more as 2,000 bhp horsepower.
