Sister ship Truculent, Yarrow Later M- class destroyer©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Preceded by Yarrow M-class. Despite lacking geared steam turbines sometime described as Yarrow R-class destroyers. Ordered in July 1915, laid down by Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotland in November 1915, launched on 24 July 1916, completed in September 1916 and sold to be broken up on 5 November 1926.
Diary note dated Saturday 9 September 1939. An item reported that admiral Saalwachter (1) recently assigned as Gruppen Befehlshaber West. Saalwachter was responsible for all naval and coast defence operations in the North Sea comparable to the duties of admiral Albrecht Gruppen Befelhlshaber Ost.(2) The Commander in Chief of the Fleet could be placed under his command for certain tasks. Admiral Raeder which was Chief of Naval Operations was to decide.
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1. Alfred Saalwächter (10 January 1883 Neusalz an der Oder, German Empire-6 December 1945 Moscow, Soviet Union), served in the navy 1901-1942 ending as generaladmiral, replaced as Gruppen Befehlshaber West on 20 September 1942 and resigned from active service on 30 November 1942.
2. Conrad Albrecht (7 October 1880 Bremen, Germany-18 August 1969 Hamburg, Germany), served in the navy between 1899-1939 ending as general admiral, retired on 31 December 1939.
3. Erich Johann Albert Raeder (24 April 1876 Wandsbek, Germany 6 November 1960 Kiel, Germany), head of the German Naval Command 1 October 1928-1 June 1935 and chief of the German Navy High Command 1 June 1935-30 January 1943
Source
National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)
Call sign DIRS/PCZC (as Noor Catharina and Maarten Senior). Casco built at the Malbo Yard Wroclaw, Poland and completed at the Scheepswerf Welgelegen, Lauwersoog in 2003 . Bought by Yske Nienhuis and to be commissioned as the ZK3, registered as the SC58 Thor of Ahnfelft&Kock OHG, Büsum, Germany in 2005 and since 2014 as Noor Catharina (YE06) of VOF van der Endt, Yerseke, Netherlands. MMSI 244615490.
An item reported that at Honolulu, Hawaii on 3 January was cleared the American whaler Ohio master Norton for cruising and back home
An item reported that at Laihana, Hawaii on 6 December was cleared the American whaler Phoenix master Bellows for cruising
Netherlands-flagged, IMO 8432730, MMSI 244328000 and call sign PFOW. Ex-Limanda renamed 2009 Benoni. Built at Scheepswerf De Klerk, Walsoorden, Netherlands in 1973. Sold by Kobus Post, Urk, Netherlands in October 2016 to A., M. en N. Sinke, Yerseke, Netherlands.
Auction at the Nieuwezyds Heeren Loogement, Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 22 October 1759 at 18:00 o’clock of the Dutch whaler De Pieter, extra ordinary well sailing fluyt, commandeur Jacob Teunisz Root, built in 1722 and as dimensions 116 1/3 x 30.10 x 12.8½, verdeck 6.9½ and stuurplecht 8.9½ Amsterdam feet. Sold for 6.200 Dutch guilders to Nicolaas Anthony van Hoorn representing Nicolaes de Mijn.
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Archief van de Burgemeesters: scheepsverkopingen door makelaars. Archive 5071 Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, Netherlands archive No. 5071, inventory number 22.
England-flagged, homeport Plymouth, IMO 8816041, MMSI 235002830 and call sign MHRP6. Built by Scheepswerf Friesland, Lemmer, Netherlands in 1989.
An item referred to a list of arivals and departured at the Bay of Islands between 26 February-2 May reporting the arrival of the Australian whaler Nimrod, Bennett of Sydney, sundries on 10 March. Departed for the River Thames on 1 April.
Netherlands-flagged, homeport Scheveningen, IMO 8318180, MMSI 244767000 and call sign PBXD. Built by Damen Shipyard Hardinxveld, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Netherlands in 1983. Also called a fish farm support vessel. Owned by Rijksrederij/Rijkswaterstaat.
An item referred to a list of arivals and departured at the Bay of Islands between 26 February-2 May reporting the arrival of the Australian whaler Proteus, Fowler of Sydney, Fowler, 11 months, 1,100 barrels sperm oil on 5 March. Departed for cruising on 30 March.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by St. Pieter, Hemixen [Hemiksem]/Antwerpen, Belgium. Yard number 50. Date building ordered3 October 1942. Date completion unknown depends on delivery propulsion allowing a future maximum completion of 5-7 Kriegsfischkutters possible.
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Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
Deed of chartering dated 1 March 1662 by Adryaen Solderwaeghe with master Isbrant Cornelis Gort for the ship Prins Frederick for a waling voyage to Greenland and to return afterwards at Rotterdam to be unloaded payment 2,050 guilders and 6 guilders each whale.
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Stadsarchief Rotterdam. Notary Vitus Mustelius Woutersz 18-515-121
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Malaysia-flagged, MMSI 533000026 and call sign 9MOT. Part of Kasturi-class based on the FS 1500 design preceded by Laksamana-class. Ordered in February 1981 or on 10 June 1981, laid down by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Kiel, Germany on 31 January 1983, launched on 14 May 1983 and commissioned on 15 August 1984.
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Revenge-class battleships. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Queen Elizabeth-class battleships. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
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Sketch of Vice Admiral Sir Roger Keyes (1872–1945), KCB, CMG, CVO, DSO, by the British painter Glyn Warren Philpot, 1918.
Courtesy of the collection of the Imperial War Museums.
The American consulate at Valetta, Malta wrote on 18 August 1927 to the US Secretary of State that the same day at Malta ships of the British Mediterranean Fleet namely: the battleships HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth-class), flagship of admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Barham (Queen Elizbath-class) flagship of vice-admiral John D. Kelly, Royal Sovereign (Revenge-class), flagship of rear admiral D.T. Morris, Malaya and Valiant (both Queen Elizabeth-class), cruisers Cardiff (C-class Ceres subclass), flagship of rear admiral L.G. Preston, Concord (C-class Centaur subclass) and Ceres (C-class Ceres subclass), the aircraft carrier Eagle, the repair ship Assistance, the depot ships Sandhurst and Cyclops, the cruiser Conquest (C-class Caroline sub-class) with the Captain (S) and 1st Submarine Flotillas (less L 21 already here); the cruiser Coventry (C-class Ceres subclass)with rear admiral Hon. H. Meade, and the First, Second and Fourth Destroyer Flotillas (less Wakeful), the drifters Eddy, Sunset, Crescent Moon, Landfall, the despatch vessel Bryony and the monitor Medusa.
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National Archives. Record Group 64: Records of the National Archives and Records Administration Series: Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Great Britain. Naval Affairs, Navy, Navy Vessels: 841.315 THRU 841.31553 THRU Naval Affairs, Navy, Navy Vessels: Movement of Naval Vessels: 841.33 - 841.3311/64. Microcopy 580 roll 92.
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Samoa-flagged, homeport Apia, IMO 4734271, MMSI 561006007 and call sign 5WDI. Of the Samoa Police Service. Promised in June 2022, ordered on 2 November 2022, acquired on 22 November 2023 and commissioned in 2024. Built by Austal Australia with yard number 542 as a Guardian-class patrol boat under the Pacific Maritime Security Program
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by Kerstholt, Groningen, Netherlands. Yard number 425. Date building ordered3 October 1942. Date completion unknown depends on delivery propulsion allowing a future maximum completion of 5-7 Kriegsfischkutters possible.
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Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
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Australia-flagged, homeport Brisbane, IMO 9752254, MMSI 503000206 and call sign VMNC. Auxiliary ship operated for the Royal Australian Navy‘s National Support Squadron by Teekay Shipping, purchased in February 2022. Launched by Kleven Verft, Norway in 2015, served as offshore supply vessel Horizon Star owned by Horizon Maritime, homeport St. John’s, Canada between 2017-2022.
Diary note dated Saturday 9 September 1939. An item reported that admiral Raeder (1) wanted to speak the American Naval Attaché personally in the matter of the suppression by American newspapers- except for the Hearst papers- of the German side of what was going on. The Attaché replied that he was ready at any time to meet Raeder.
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1. Erich Johann Albert Raeder (24 April 1876 Wandsbek, Germany 6 November 1960 Kiel, Germany), head of the German Naval Command 1 October 1928-1 June 1935 and chief of the German Navy High Command 1 June 1935-30 January 1943
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National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)
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Fiji-flagged, IMO 4736516, MMSI 520465000 and call sign 3DPX. Built by Austal Australia, Henderson Shipyard in 2024 as the 22nd Guardian-class patrol boat under the Pacific Maritime Security Program.
According to a letter dated Admiralty, Somerset House 6th September of the Director of Transport Services W.R. Mends to the Under Secretary of State for India was the iron screw steam transport Peruvian hired. Number transport 5. Tonnage 2,245 tons. Horsepower 300 hp. Rate per ton per month. If discharged at home 32s3d. and abroad 50s0d. Date of acceptance 30 August. Likely to sail early next week. Now being prepared for service with the Abyssinian expedition at Liverpoo. Engaged for six months certain.
The British Abyssinian Expedition found place between 4 December 1867-13 May 1868 against the Ethiopian Empire or Abyssinia to release the imprisoned missionaries and representatives of the British government.
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Accounts and papers: thirty-five volumes. Army. Abyssinian expedition. Session 19 November 1867-31 July 1868. Vol. XLIII., p. 115.
Sistership Malcolm. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Admiralty-type or Scott-class destroyer leader preceded by Thornycroft type leader and succeeded by A- and B-class leaders. Ordered in December 1916, laid down by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England on 12 May 1917, launched on 26 February 1918, commissioned on 29 May 1918 and sunk as a target off the Isle of Wight on 2 November 1939.
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.
Source
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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Length 48.6 feet. Maritime Safety Board.
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. Ankara. Not loaded. Left Trieste, Italy on 27 March 1940, Arrived at Ragusa on 29 March 1940 to pick up a cargo of bauxite. Left Ragusa on 4 April 1940. Arrived at Trieste on 7 April 1940 and handed over to the OKM/A VI on 21 October 1940.
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Bundesarchive RM 7-223.
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Admiral Hipper-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Planned D-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Deutschland-class consisted of the Deutschland (Panzerschiff A, replacement of the Preussen) renamed Lützow in January 1940), Admiral Graf Scheer Panzerschiff B replacement of the Lotharingen) and Admiral Graf Spee (Panzerschiff C, replacement of the Braunschweig, lost in 1939). Succeeded by Admiral Hiper-class and planned D-class cruiser. Original called Panzerschiffe (armored ships), reclassifed as heavy cruisers in February 1940. The press called her pocket battleships while she were more competent then the pre-dreadnought battleships, able to outrun every ship more heavier armed or to out gun every existing (heavy) cruiser due to her armament of 2x3-28cm/11” guns. Plans to convert the two existing units in 1943 into aircraft carriers was not executed. Dimensions 126 x 21 x 7.20 metres. Diesel propulsion, 2 shafts, 16,000 hp and speed 19 knots. Armour sides 30cm-deck 3cm-turrets 35cm. Armament 1x3-35cm quick firing guns, 2x2-15cm quik firing giuns, 4-8.8cm anti aircraft guns and 4 submerged 53cm torpedo tubes.
Sources
Gerhard Koop and Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Die Panzerschiffe der Deutschland-klasse.
Mike J. Whitley. Deutsche Kreuzer im Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Gert Sandhofer. Das Panzerschiff “A” und die vorentwürfe von 1920 bis 1928.
Jane’s Fighting Ships several editions.
Flottes de combat several editions.
Bundesarchiv several files. German pre design for the Deutschland-class pocket battleships design
Engaged by the British government for the new expedition to the Soudan. Gross tonnage 3,170 tons. Troop transport.
Due to the despressed state of the shipping trade was the Admiralty able to hire troop transports towards Suakin, Sudan for just 17s 6 ton/month in contrary to the 28s ton/month in the 1882 campaign. The first Suakim expedition was in February 1884, the second one in March 1885. The campaigns were part of the Mahdist War (1881-189) between the Mahdist Sudanese and the Khedivate Egypt later the United Kingdom resulting in the condominium Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1899-1956 and then succeeded by the Protectorate of Uganda, Italian Libya and the Republic of Sudan, nowadays Egypt, Libya, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. On 26 January 1885 fell Khartoum and the British garrison was massacred. In March was a British expeditionary force sent to Suakin but lacking success and finally withdrawn.
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The Steamship dated 16 February 1885, p. 64.
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Operated by the Maritime Safety Board. Length about 121.6 feet
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships by German shipyards in July 1944. Type XXIII. Yard Deutsche Werft, Hamburg (Schiffswerft Linz). Yard number 139. Date building ordered 289 October 1943. Date completion -. Remarks construction by decision of Ob.d.M. for the time being postponed.
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Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 147.
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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. Built by Murakami. Completed on 27 April 1945 and sunk in rough weather on 18 September 1945. Broken up in 1947?
Diary note dated Friday 8 September 1939. An item reported that the first fully accredited report of sinking a merchant ship by a German submarine was published by the German press. The British cargo ship Oliver Grove (1) was loaded with sugar underway from Cuba to England and sunk under the prize rules.
Note
1. Built by Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow, Scotland in 1929, torpedoed and sunk by the U-33 on 7 September 1939 around 420 miles west-southwest of Lands End, England.
Source
National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)
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Part of Lahore-class also indicated as Basset-class patrol coastal boats (PCS). Former British Isles type minesweeping trawlers. Displacement 545 (standard)-770 (full load) tons and as dimensions 164 (over all) x 27 1/2 x 13 1/2 feet. Triple expansion propulsion, horsepower of 850 ihp and a speed of 11.5 knots. Coal bunker capacity 181 ton. Crew numbered 48 men. Armament consisted of 1-12pd gun, 30-2cm anti aicraft guns when mounted. Launched at Calcutta, India on 19 July 1941. Transferred from India in 1948
List of planning with deadlines for new construction of submarines by foreign shipyards dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Type XXVII. Yard Simmering (Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico), Monfalcone, Italy. Date building ordered 28 March 1944. Date completion July 1944.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 201253-file 152.
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Australia-flagged, homeport HMAS Cairns, IMO 9151773, MMSI 503177000 and call sign VLSE. Part of Leeuwin-class. Ordered on 2 April 1996, launched by North Queensland Engineers&Agents, Cairns, Australia on 1 June 1997, commissioned on 27 May 2000
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Modified River-class hull and improved armament. Of this class were 28 ships built and 54 cancelled. To be built by Smith’s Dock Company, Limited. 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.
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Norman Friedman. British Destroyers&Frigates/ The Second World War and After.
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Dr. John Collis Browne (18 June 1819 Maidstone, Kent, England-30 August 1884 Mount Albion House, Ramsgate, England) was a surgeon serving in the British Army and who invented Chlorodyna to be used against cholera. Furthermore he was inventor of items to be used for yachts. What Wikpedia not mentioned was his proposal for an ironclad.
Huët referred in 1879 to Iron. The Journal of Science, Metals and Manufacturer No. 148 Vol. VY. New Series dated 13 November 1875, page 612 where a fast ship for ocean routes was described. The ship was presented at the Paris Maritime Exposition, the merit of the invention claimed by M. Bazin. Dr. J. Collis Browne however forwared documents and dreawing that the merit of inventing and applying the principle so far as the hull was concerned, was his. His schooner yacht Kala-Fishbuilt on this principle in 1872was exhibited to the French authorities at Boulogne in 1873. At the Paris exhibition could a working steam model of the invention be seen. In the Kensington Museum were the past two years models presented. Browne showed an engraving of a proposed ironclad on the same plan. The ironclad was to be fitted out with a beak 60 feet long at each end and with a deck long 224 feet. Hetr decks sloped outwards at an angle of around 40 degrees. Flat in her bilge and with a keel. Displacement calculated at 15,000 tons and with a freeboard of nearly 16 feet. Before the ship wnet into action was she water ballasted in tanks constructed for that purpose “so as to expose no more of her hull than is duly protected with armour. The depth occupied by the latter (measured on the slope) will be 12 feet and the vertical depth of the hull 40 feet. Herbuoyancy, it is estimated, will be such taht the 12 feet of freeboard may be plated with armour three feet thick! This vessels swells mout both laterally and longitudinally below the water line. The principle which governs this design is that of gaining the power of carrying an enormous weight by immersing as great a bulk a possible.”
Sources
Browne, Dr.J. Collis. “Wave lines: a short description of their true form, and how ships ought to be constructed to meet them”, in Marine Engineering News, London 1 January 1876.
Huët, A. La Locomotive marine. Etude sur le Transport Maritime a grande vitesse. La Haye, Pays Bas, 1879.
John Collis Browne. Wikepedia 22-3-2026 14:22.
Diary note dated Friday 8 September 1939. An item reported that the Dutch minelayer Hr.Ms. Willem van der Zaan hit a British mine and sunk off Den Helder, Netherlands. Of her crew 25 men died and 8 were seriously wounded.
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1. Part of Willem van der Zaan-class. Laid down by Nederlandsche Droogdok Maatschappij, Amsterdam, Netherlands on 18 January 1938, launched on 15 December 1938, commissioned on 21 August 1939, escaped on 13 May 1940 towards England, arrived on 16 May 1940, decommissioned on 27 February 1970 and sold to be broken up on 6 October 1970. It was the Hr.Ms. Willem van Ewijck part of Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers which sunk on 8 September 1939, laid down by P. Smit, Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1936, launched on 22 February 1937, commissioned on 19 July 1937.
Source
National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)
