Former British corvette HMS Clover serving as Communist Chinese warship in the 1950s

Kai Feng©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Flower-clas corvetteWarshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Sketch dated October 1953

Part of Flower-class corvettes succeeded by Castle-class. Ordered on 25 July 1939, laid down by Fleming&Ferguson Ltd., Paisly, Scotland on 29 July 1940, launched on 30 January 1941, commissioned on 13 May 1941, sold to merchant shipping on 17 May 1947, renamed ss Cloverlock, later sold to People’s Republic of China and renamed as frigate Kai Feng. Stricken in 1989?

Senator McCarthy supplies some background informate about her fate after the Second World War: “I do not intend to take the time of the Senate except for another minute or two togive the Senate a picture of the viciousness of these deals. I should like to recite the facts in one instance. There is a British company in Hong Kong called the Wheelock-Marden Co. That company obtained a British corvette. The name of it was the Clover. The Wheelock-MardenCo.removed the guns and transformed the ship into a transport vessel. After the war with Korea started Britain had a rule tot he effect that British firms could not sell any ship to the Communists. They found a good way to get around that, not only in this case but in many others. They chartered the boat to the Communists. They charged them the first year the value of the ship. It still carried the British flag, but was owned by Red China. What happened in th ecase of this corvette? It was chartered to the Communists, and the name was changed to Cloverlock. This has been proved by the Defense Department. The ship was reconverted to a gunboat, so that all during the Communist war and as of today, the Cloverlock, a ship under British registry, is a gunboat, a fighting ship of the Communists, and, being under British registry, it of necessity carries the British flag. I merely mention it to show the viciousness of this dealing in blood money.”

McCarthy referred in his speach to the Defense Department. There is at leat one CIA document which reverred to this ship. On 19 October 1953 were Communist Chinese warships described at Tsingtao. One was one vessel, believed to be the former Cloverlock arrived at Tsingtao and even supplying a sketch of her.

Sources

Congressional Record. Proceedings and debates of the 83rd Congress First Session-volume 99-part 8-Senate 29 July 1953, pages 10323-10324.

Jane’s Fighting ships several editions.

CIA-rdp80-00810a002600100005-7 dated 19 October 1953. 

German submarine (ex-U2540 1944-1960) Wilhelm Bauer 1960-

Bremerhaven, Germany 7 May 2026

Type XXI. Laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 29 October 1944, launched on 13 January 1945, commissioned on 24 February 1945, scuttled near the light ship off Flensburg on 4 May 1945, salvaged in June 1957, repaired by Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany, as Wilhelm Bauer resreach vessel between 1 September 1960-28 August 1968, test vessel voor technical developing of the new Type 206 submarines, involved in a collision on 6 May 1970, laid up and decommissioned on 15 March 1982, sold and since 27 April 1984 museum ship. 

British soldiers transported from Greece to Egypt according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 4 August 1917

An item reported that two Turkish Egyptians stated that until 8 June about 30,000 British soldiers coming from Saloniki, Greece arrived at Alexandria, Egypt.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

British anti-submarine frigate HMS Loch Vanavie 1945

River-class ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Loch-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Bay-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Modified River-class hull and improved armament. Of this class were 28 ships built and 54 cancelled. To be built by Harland & Wolff. Cancelled in 1945.

Sources

Jane’s Fighting Ships 1944-1945

David K. Brown. Nelson to Vanguard. Warship design and development 1923-1945.

David K. Brown. Atlantic Escorts. Ships, Weapons and Tactics in World War II.

J.J.. Colledge/Ben Warlow. Ships of the Royal Navy. The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present.

Norman Friedman. British Destroyers&Frigates/ The Second World War and After.

Leo Marriott. Royal Navy Frigates since 1945. 2nd edition.

G.M. Stephen. British warship designs since 1906.

A.W. Watson. ‘Corvettes and frigates’ in: Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, 1947, p. 165-185

Transports arriving at Genoa, Italy according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 4 August 1917

An item referred to an agent reporting that mid July some steam transports arrived at Genoa, Italy.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

Torpedo net protection for German Moltke-class battle cruisers dated August 1912

SMS Von der Tann. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Moltke-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Torpedo net sketch dated August 1912. Bundesarchiv RM-3-322

SMS Seydlitz. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.co

Molte-class consisted of the Moltke and Goeben preceded by SMS Von der Tann and succceeded by SMS Seydlitz.

SMS Moltke, contract awarded under conaarct name “Cruiser G”on 17 September 1908, laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 23 January 1909, launched on 7 April 1910, commissioned on 30 September 1911, scuttled at Scape Flow on 21 June 1919, raised in 1927 and broken up between 1927-1929.

SMS Goeben, ordered under contract name “H” on 8 April 1909, laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 12 August 1909, launched on 28 March 1911, commissioned on 2 July 1912, transferred to the Ottoman Empire on 16 August 1914, renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim, renamed TCG Yavuz in 1936, decommissioned on 20 December 1950, stricken on 14 November 1954 and broken up between 1973-1976. 

Allied troop transport underway from French Algeria to France according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 4 August 1917

An item referred to an agent reporting that on 16 July a larger fully occupied troop transport the Spanish waters passed underway from Oran, Algeria towards Marseille, France.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

German ocean going tug Seefalke 1924-

Bremerhaven, Germany 7 May 2026

Built by Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Germany for account of W. Schuchmann, later Bugsier Reederei und Bergungs A.G., Bremerhaven. Became a musuem ship. 

Allied troop transports planned from France for Greece according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 4 August 1917

An item referred to an agent dated 3 August reporting that in mid August troop transports would be sent from Marseille, France to Saloniki, Greece.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

Torpedo net protection for German battle cruiser SMS Von der Tann dated August 1912

SMS Von der Tann. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Torpedo net sketch dated August 1912. Bundesarchiv RM-3-322

Moltke-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Nassau-class battleships. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Preceded by Moltke-class. Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered on 17 May 1906 a design competition for a fast battleship with a minimum of4-28cm/11” guns using the Nassau-class battleships design as basis, laid down at the shipyard of Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 21 March 1908, launched on 20 March 1909, commissioned on 1 September 1910, interned after the First World War at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland but scuttled by her own crew to prevent that she fell into British hands on 21 June 1919 and in the 1930s raised and broken up at Rosyth between 1931-1934. Her homeport was Kiel, Germany.

German plane attacked Greek air force base Thasos according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 4 August 1917

An item reported that in the night of 2-3 August a plane of the seaplane station Xanti attacked the air force base Thasos with bombs causing fire and several explosions which could be seen from Xanthi. Probably was a gasoline storage hit. The next morning sighted other planes from Xanthi that the building in the middle on Thasos completely was destroyed by fire. South of it were heavily smoking heaps of rubble lying.(1)

Note

1. The German seaplane station (Seeflugstation) at Xanti [Bulgaria, nowadays Greece) was located near the Aegean Sean operated by the Imperial Navy, especially active in the region of Porto Lagos

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

German light ship Elbe 3 1908-

Bremerhaven, Germany 7 May 2026

Built by Eiderwerft AG, Tönning, Germany for account of the Königliche Wasserbau-Inspektion as Eider for the Eider estuary between 1908-1909, light in the North Sea during the First World War, as the Bürgermeister Anbendroth owned by the Cuxhaven Water and Shipping Authority stationed during the Second World War in the Baltic Sea, as beacon and Pilot station Elbe 3 positioned in the German Bight until 1966, finally decommissioned and became a museum ship. 

Italian steamship Carlo sunk according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 4 August 1917

An item reported that according to newspapers the Italian steamship Carlo (8,000 tons, not mentioned in Lloyds Register) loaded with coal underway from England towards Italy was sunk off Kap Spartel (perhaps 5,572 tons, Carlos). The survivors that the sighted another ship nearby sinking.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

The armament of the Dutch merchant ship Zaanland in the Second World War

According to the list and supplements 1-2 on 13 September 1945 BDZ No. 673 sent by the office of armament the Royal Netherlands Navy located at 41 East 42nd Street, New York 17, USA. There were no complete records available, so there were several sources used to compile the list. Sometimes the kind of guns gave indirect information regarding the origin such as 4”/BL and 12 pounder guns were British mostly supplied in the United Kingdom, Canada or Curacao. The 4.7” guns were old Japanese guns placed on some vessels in the begin of the war at Singapore and some 4” guns in the same period at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. The trade in which the ship was used gave also an indication were the guns were supplied, for example involved in the Pacific trade means supplied at the West Coast.

Armed with 1-2cm gun supplied at New York on 5 March 1943

General cargo single screw steam turbine ship launched by Barclay, Curle&co, Cydeholm Shipyard, Glasgow, Scotland on 25 March 1921, G-standard ship ordered by the British cabinet, bought during the completition, delivered to the N.V. Koninklijke Hollansche Lloyd, Amsterdam, Netherlands on 11 June 1921 and sunk on the Atlantic Ocean by the German submarine U. 758 on 16 March 1943 while underway from Port Lincoln/New, York , USA part of a convoy towards Belfast, Ireland and Avonmouth, England. Call sign QCVT, 1934 PIVS. Gross tonnage 6,821,77 tons, net tonnage 4,131.04 tons, deadweight 10,92.00 tons and as dimensions 140.31 x 18.34 x 8.46 meters. Grain capacity 621,000 cubic feet and bale capacity 573,000 cubic feet. 

Source

Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands

Unknown sailing vessel

Before the Second World War. Possible German

Torpedo net protection for German armoured cruiser Blücher

German Scharnhorst-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

German SMS Blücher. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Torpedo net sketch Bundesarchiv RM-3-322

British Invincible-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Preceded by Scharnhorst-class. Designed as an answer to the British battle cruisers of the Invincible-class but in fact no match for the successors of the armoured cruisers. It became just after the building was ordered clear that these British battle cruisers were armed with 8-30,5 cm guns and not as earlier was believed 6/8-23cm guns. Ordered as the ‘E’ after the authorisation by the Reichstag on 26 May 1906 of the needed budget, was she laid down on 21 February 1907 at the Kaiserliche Werft at Kiel, Germany, launched on 11 April 1908 and commissioned on 1 October 1909 and sunk during the battle of Dogger Bank against British naval forces on 24 January 1915.

German submarine UC 20 bombarded Homs according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 4 August 1917

An item reported that the German submarine UC 20 commanded by overleutnant von der Lühe fired 44 shots at barracks and military objects ar Homs [Syria?] sighting one flawless hit.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

Dutch navy dive vessel Zr.Ms. Hydra A854 1992-

Scheveningen, Netherlands 28 April 2026

Laid down at the Scheepswerf Visser, Den Helder, Netherlands on 11 June 1992, launched on 11 September 1992 and commissioned on 20 November 1992. IMO 9034171, MMSI 245990000 and call sign PD2231. 

Passing ships keeping larger distance to French coast off Villefrance according to the Kriegsnachrichten No. 60 of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated 28 June 1918

An item referring to a reliable agent reported that the last days of May several steamships passed Villefrance towards the west maintaining a larger distance to the coast.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

Shipping traffic along the Spanish Mediterranean coast increasing according to the Kriegsnachrichten No. 60 of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated 28 June 1918

An item referring to a reliable source reported that the since mid April reported suddenly decrease of the shipping traffic along the Spanish Mediterranean coast gradually increased. Recently was sighted that here too the convoys became larger/stronger.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

Japanese auxiliary patrol boat No. 123 1945

©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Type B ordered under the 1943-1944 Programme to be part of the coastal forces. Of the 280 ordered were just 56 laid down and even a less number finally completed when the Second World War ended. To serve as convoy escorts were the boats also fitted out with minesweeping gears. Based on a traditional wood built fishing boat. With a displacement of 238 tons and as dimensions 93.5 (between perpendiculars)-105. 3/4 (over all) x 20.2 x 7.75 feet. Geared diesel propulsion with 400bhp via one shaft and speed 9 knots. Crew numbered 26 men. Armament consisted of 2/4x1-2.5cm guns and 8-12 depth charges. Launched by Goriki on 14 May 1945. When the war ended still incomplete.

German blockade runner ms Erlangen in 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. Ms. Erlangen. Not loaded. Left Puerto Montt, Chile on 17 May 1941. Arrived at Mar del Plata on 3 June 1941. Transfer. Voyage full of adventures from Australia towards Puert Montt.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM 7/223

Construction status of the German kriegsfischkutter KFK 576 in 1944

©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built at Varna, Bulgaria. Date building ordered 24 June 1943. Date completion unknown due to transport and labour problems allowing a future maximum completion of 1-2 Kriegsfischkutters possible.

Source

Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152. 

British anti-submarine frigate HMS Loch Shiel 1945

River-class ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Loch-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Bay-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Modified River-class hull and improved armament. Of this class were 28 ships built and 54 cancelled. To be built by Harland & Wolff. Cancelled in 1945.

Sources

Jane’s Fighting Ships 1944-1945

David K. Brown. Nelson to Vanguard. Warship design and development 1923-1945.

David K. Brown. Atlantic Escorts. Ships, Weapons and Tactics in World War II.

J.J.. Colledge/Ben Warlow. Ships of the Royal Navy. The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present.

Norman Friedman. British Destroyers&Frigates/ The Second World War and After.

Leo Marriott. Royal Navy Frigates since 1945. 2nd edition.

G.M. Stephen. British warship designs since 1906.

A.W. Watson. ‘Corvettes and frigates’ in: Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, 1947, p. 165-185

British screw steam transport Cottingham in the Crimean War on 28-10-1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport -, present position Balaklava, Crimea, remarks coaling the “Andes”. The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

British merchant ship Greece chartered for the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882

Between July-September 1882 was the United Kingdom in war with Egyptian and Sudanese troops ending in the British occupation of Egypt. The British government chartered between July-August a lot of merchant steamships for transporting troops, stores etc. from the United Kingdom to Egypt including the Greece of the National Line.

Source

The Nautical Magazine. Fifty-first year. Volume VII. July 1882. 

Dutch slaver or so-called lorredraaier De Witte Bijle 1715

 

Roadstead Vlissingen. Cornelis Low, 1715. muZEEum, Vlissingen, Netherlands

Smuggler. 

Dutch East Indiaman Goes 1653-

E.I.C.-chamber Zealand, on stocks by Cornelis Speldernieuw sr. at E.I.C-yard at Middelburg, Netherlands 1653, launched l7 March 1654.

Sources

Kort gevat Jaarboek van de Edele Geoctroyeerde oost-indische compagnie der vereenigde Nederlanden ter kamer van Zeeland. Middelburg, 1759.

Archive V.O.C. 1602-1811 inv.no. 11048. Kort gevat Jaarboek van de Edele Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie tec. Christiaan Sigismund Matthaeus, Jan Dane, Middelburg, 1759.

Portuguese transport Nossa Senhora da Gloria e Sao Joaquim 1772-1772

Mentioned between 1772-1776, charrua.

Source

A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.

Dutch workboat (ex-Jumbo 1953-2002, Jumbo II 2002-2014) HEBO-Cat 15 2014-

Harlingen, Netherlands 29 April 2026

Netherlands-flagged, homeport Rotterdam, ENI 02509162, MMSI 244045000 and call sign PFFL. Built by Kraaijeveld, Sliedrecht, Netherlands in 1953 as a sheerleg, converted into a multi purpose vessel in 1990. 

British destroyer HMS Nestor visited the Azores in September 1941

In his letter No. 1200dated Lisbon 5 September 1941 reported the German naval attaché in Portugal to the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine at Berlin referring to an Italian source at Ponta Delgada that the British destroyer HMS Ebotor [misspelling] after loading 220 ton nafta on 2 September departed towards Freetown [Sierra Leone].(1)

Note

1. The British destroyer HMS Nestor G02. Part of N-class preceded by Tribal-class succeeded by L- and M-classes. Laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, Scotland in 1939, launched on 9 July 1940, commissioned on 3 February 1941 and scuttled on 16 June 1942 after being damaged in an air attack on 15 June 1942 while underway from Haifa towards Malta but the convoy changed course to Malta with the attack off Greece.

Source

Bundesarchive. RM 11-17. German naval attaché in Portugal. 

Russian submarine L-17 1935-1949, B-17 1949-1959 and UTS-84 1959-1990s

©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of L Series XIII-class. In 1938 intended to be christened in Ezhovets. Laid down by A. Marti, Nikolaev, Ukraine with yard number 307 on 30 November 1935, disassembled and sent to 202 (Dalzavod), Vladivostok and assembled, launched on 5 November 1937, completed on 5 June 1939, commissioned on 1 August 1939 and stricken in the 1990s to be scrapped. Pacific Fleet.

Sources

Breyer, S. and N. Polmar. Guide to the Soviet Navy, 2nd edition.

Huan, Cl. La Flotte rouge.

Budzbon, P., J. Radziemski, and M. Twardowski. Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939-1945, volume I.

Jordan, J. Soviet submarines 1945 to the present.

Kouznetsov, N. La Marine sovietique en guerre 1941-1945.

Meister, J. Soviet Warships of the Second World War.

Pavlov, A.S. Warships of the USSR and Russia 1945-1995.

Polmar N. and J. Noot. Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies 1718-1990.

Rohwer, J. and M.S. Monakov. Stalin’s Ocean-going Fleet. Soviet naval strategy and shipbuilding programmes 1935-1953.

Schulz-Troge, U. Die sowjetische Kriegsmarine.

Far Eastern Sighting Guide (ONI-F-31-FE).

Jane’s Fighting Ships several editions.

Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

British merchant ship Italy chartered for the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882

Between July-September 1882 was the United Kingdom in war with Egyptian and Sudanese troops ending in the British occupation of Egypt. The British government chartered between July-August a lot of merchant steamships for transporting troops, stores etc. from the United Kingdom to Egypt including the Italy of the National Line.

Source

The Nautical Magazine. Fifty-first year. Volume VII. July 1882. 

Spanish tug VB Fantastic 2025-

Entrance Nieuwe Waterweg, Netherlands 30 March 2026

St. Vincent and Grenadines-flagged, IMO 1061831, MMSI 375433000 and call sign J8B6824. Damen Song CAM 515049. Type Damen RSD 2513. Owner Boluda Towage. Built by Damen Song Cam Shipyard Ltd., Haiphong, Vietnam in 2025. 

German submarine UB 122 under repair at the Kaiserliche Werft, Kiel, Germany in 1918

A list dealing dated 28 June 1918 reported the status of work on the submarines expected on 30 June. Work started on 27 June 1918. Planned completion unknown. Description of the work depth rudder damage. Remarks none.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM 3-11254. 

France hired transport Entre Rios for French expedition to Madagascar in 1895

With the First Madagascar Expedition (May 1883-December 1885) started the Franco-Hova War. In December 1885 was a Treaty signed which the French interpreted as being a Protectorate Treaty which was denied by Queen Ranavalona III. The result was the Second Madagascar Expedition December 1894-1 October 1895) ending in Madagascar becoming a French colony (1897-1958). The Malagasy Republic was an autonomous French territory until she became independent as the Democatric Republic of Madagascar in 1975. Left Philippeville [nowadays Skikda, Algeria] [nowadays Skikda, Algeria] on 9 April loaded with mules and ammunition and Port Said, Egypt on 17 April.

Source

Captain Pasfield Oliver, “The Madagascar expedition”: The United Service Magazine, volume XI. New Series. April 1895 to September 1895, p. 136-137. 

British anti-submarine frigate HMS Loch Enoch 1945

River-class ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Loch-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Bay-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Modified River-class hull and improved armament. Of this class were 28 ships built and 54 cancelled. To be built by Harland & Wolff. Cancelled in 1945.

Sources

Jane’s Fighting Ships 1944-1945

David K. Brown. Nelson to Vanguard. Warship design and development 1923-1945.

David K. Brown. Atlantic Escorts. Ships, Weapons and Tactics in World War II.

J.J.. Colledge/Ben Warlow. Ships of the Royal Navy. The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present.

Norman Friedman. British Destroyers&Frigates/ The Second World War and After.

Leo Marriott. Royal Navy Frigates since 1945. 2nd edition.

G.M. Stephen. British warship designs since 1906.

A.W. Watson. ‘Corvettes and frigates’ in: Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, 1947, p. 165-185

American whaler Maria Theresa spoken according to the newspaper The Polynesian dated 27 August 1852

An item dated Lahaina 21 August 1852 reported that when the American whaler Chas. Phelps master Birch arrived returning from the Sea of Okhotsk he mentioned that he had heard on 2 July from whaler Maria Theresa 7 whales

Construction status of the German kriegsfischkutter KFK 575 in 1944

©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built at Varna, Bulgaria. Date building ordered 24 June 1943. Date completion unknown due to transport and labour problems allowing a future maximum completion of 1-2 Kriegsfischkutters possible.

Source

Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152. 

American whaler Franklin spoken according to the newspaper The Polynesian dated 27 August 1852

An item dated Lahaina 21 August 1852 reported that when the American whaler Chas. Phelps master Birch arrived returning from the Sea of Okhotsk he mentioned that he had heard on 2 July from whaler Franklin 7 whales

American destroyer USS Preston DD-379 1934-1942

USS Porter. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

USS Aylwin of the Farragut-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

USS Mahan. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Mahan-class (18 completed) preceded by Porter-class succeeded by Gridley-class. Improved version of the Farragut-class. Laid down by Mare Island Navy Yard, USA on 27 October 1934, launched on 22 April 1936, commissioned on 27 October 1936 and sunk by the Japanese cruiser Nagra in the Third Battle of Savo Island on 14 November 1942

Spanish West Africa 1946-1958

Formed on 20 July 1946 by the so-called Cape Juby Strip which was the Southern zone of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco with the colonies of Ifni, Saguia-el-Hamra and Rio de Oro. As a result of the Ifni War (23 November 1975-30 June 1958) was under the Treaty of Angra de Cinta de Cape Juby Strip handed over to Morocco and became Ifni and the Spanish Sahara in 1957 separate provinces.

Bulk carrier (ex-Sukura Kobe 2011-2021, Handy Heidi 2021-2025) Right Course 2025-

Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 28 April 2026

Panama-flagged, IMO 9473688, MMSI 352005681 and call sign 3E8901. Built by Shin Kochi Jyuko, Kochi, Japan in 2011. As Sakura Kobe owner/manager Nitta Marine Services, Kobe, Japan. Panama-flagged 2011-2021, MMSI 538009691 and call sign H8QN. Marshall Islands-flagged 2021-2025 and Panama-flagged since 2025.