British battle cruiser design I3 1920

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Design I3. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Preceded by Admiral-class. Legend displacement51,570 tons and as dimensions 915 x 108 x 33 feet. Equipment 1,000-fuel 12,000-margen 260 tons. Armament 8,670 tons. Machinery etc. 6,430 tons. Armour&protection 14,600 tons. Hull 19,590 tos. Armament 3x3-18” cal 45 guns, 16-6” guns, 5-4.7” anti aircraft guns, 4 multiple pom-poms and 2 torpedo tubes. Horsepoower 180,000 shhp. Speed 32.5 knots.

Armour belt 12” inclined at 25°, bulkheads 11” (forward)-10” (aft) inclined at 25°, turrets 15” (face)-12” (sides)-9” (rear)-8” (roof). Barbettes 12” and 10”. Conning towe 12”-6” (roof). Torpedo bulkhead 1 3/4”. Armour deck 7” with 8”slope from ‘A’ to X’, 4” with 5” slope over machinery spaces, 6” with 7” slope over after 6” magazines and 4” with 5” slope aft and 7”, 5”,4” forward but not stem.

Sources

Brown, D.K. Nelson to Vanguard.

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Papers Sir Eustace Tennyson D'Eyncourt, Royal Museums Greenwich.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G3_battlecruiser checked 27-2-2026

British transport England hired for the Abyssinian expedition in 1867

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 England hired. Number transport 3. Tonnage 3,307 tons. Horsepower 350 hp. Rate per ton per month. If discharged at home 35s0d and aAbroad three months additional pay. Date of acceptance 2 September. Likely to sail early next week. 

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.

Source

Accounts and papers: thirty-five volumes. Army. Abyssinian expedition. Session 19 November 1867-31 July 1868. Vol. XLIII., p. 115.

German minesweeper M 20 1939-1944

Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany. Model made by Günther Seherr. 

Type 1935 minesweeper, built by Flender Werft, Lübeck, Germany in 1939, sank with the M 413 in the Narwa Bay during a Soviet air attack on 21 July 1944. 

German minesweepers active in the North and Baltic Sea according to a report of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

Diary note dated Friday 8 September 1939. An item reported that the German navy was sweeping mines in the North and Baltic Seas and that a Polish coastal battery, presumably at Gdynia, was shooting at the minesweepers although with no success.

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)

British destroyer HMS Wolverine 1909-1917

Sister ship HMS Rattlesnake. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Beagle- or G-class preceded by Tribal or F-class succeeded by Acorn- or H-class. This class was built by several shipyards on base of a loose specification leaving the details to the builder. Laid down by Cammell Laird&Company, Birkenhead, England on 26 April 1909, launched on 15 January 1910, completed in September 1910 and sunk when she collided with the sloop HMS Rosemary in Lough Foyle on 12 December 1917. 

American whaling bark Bayard visited Honolulu, Hawaii according to the newspaper The Polynesian dated 16 November 1850

Biodiversity Heritage Library

An item reported the arrival at Honolulu, Hawaii on 11 November of the American whaling bark Bayard master Graham 14 months out 30 barrels sperm oil 1,000 barrels whale oil 12,000 lbs bone

German torpedo fast patrol boat of the Libelle-class project 131 20th Century

Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Project 131.4. Of this class were between 1974-1977 30 built at Rachlin and fitted out by Peenewerft of which 14 were still in service between1989-1990. Lacking names but numbered 131.401 to 131.430.

Germany claims sinking fourth Polish submarine according to a report of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

Diary note dated Friday 8 September 1939. An item referred to German naval news received that afternoon claiming the sinking of a fourth Polish submarine.(1)

Note

1. With the outbreak of the Second World War the Polish navy possessed four submarine namely the Dutch built Orzel and Sep belonging to the Orzel-class and the French built Wilk, Rys and Zbik belonging to the Wilk-class. The Orzel and Wilk escaped to England, the Sep was damaged on 2 September by the German destroyer Friedrich Ihn, but survived torpedo attacks by German submarines U-18 and U-14 on 3 September although the Germans claimed she was sunk, she escaped to Sweden and was there interned and returned to Polish control in September 1945. The Zbik and Ryw ere also interned at Sweden during the war and returning to Poland in 1945. In the month September were none Polish submarines destroyed as the Germans claimed. 

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)

Auction of 1/16 share in the Dutch whaler De Drie Gebroeders in 1759

Auction at the Nieuwezyds Heeren Loogement, Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 2 July 1759 of 1/16 share in the Dutch whaler De Drie Gebroeders, commandeur Cornelis Backer, built in 1736, dimensions 115¼ x 29 x 12 5/11, deck 7 feet, bound for Greenland, 6-7 boats and bookkeeper Joan Muysken.

Source

Archief van de Burgemeesters: scheepsverkopingen door makelaars. Archive 5071 Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, Netherlands archive No. 5071, inventory number 22.

German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin 1935-1947

Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Contracted as the Flugzeugträger A on 16 November 1935, laid down by Deutsche Werke on 28 December 1936 as part of the Graf Zeppelin-class, launched on 8 December 1938, never completed, scuttled at Stettin in March 1945, salvaged by the Soviet Union in March 1946 and finally sunk during weapon tests north of Poland on 16 August 1947. Her wreck was found back on 12 July 2006.

Sinking of British ships by German submarines according to a report of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

Diary note dated Friday 8 September 1939. The American Naval Attaché asked the the German liason officer what he knew about the losses of the British shipping caused by German submarines as broadcasted by the British radio. Het got as answer that a report the same morning mentioned one ship and the day before the figure for sunk tonnage was 50,000 tons and which he called a bagatelle.

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940

Design “G’” of a battleship by Italian general naval engineer Ferrati dated 1915

Italian battleship design-G'. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

French Normandie-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

French Lyon-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Edgardo Ferrati (Turin, Italy 26 August 1862-Rome, Italy 18 December 1919) was in charge for the never completed Francesco Caracciolo-class battleships (8-38.1cm/15” guns). In 1899 director off naval construction at Castellammare and built the battleships Benedetto Brin, Vittorio Emanuele and Naples. Promoted in 1913 to the rank of lieutenant general and president of the committee for ship projects.Stationed in 1915 at La Spezia Arsenal. His design was to be an Italian answer on the French designs of the never realized Normandie (12-34cm guns) and Lyon (16-34cm guns)-classes and other battleship designs. Displacement 37,200 tons and length 225 metres. Armament 4x4-38.1cm cal 24 guns, 8x2-17cm cal 24 guns and 24x1-10.2cm cal 50 guns. Armour was 27cm and 17 cm just like previous desighns with an additional 310 tons for armour cm added. Design “F” had as armour 27cm for 66% of the ship length and with a reduced height up to her bow and the first rudder.

Sources

Bollettino d’Archivio, Dic. 1988, A Rastrelli.

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Italian Navy Historic Office

British whaler Harmony arrived at Hull, England in 1834

Returning from the northern fishery. Named in the list for 1820. Tonnage 300 tuns. Crew 45 men. tuns of oil 104. tuns of bone 5. Number of whales caught 11. Owner or agent T. Bell.

Source

The Trade and Commerce of Hull and its ships&shipowners. Past and present. Hull, 1878, p. 82-83. 

German East German coast defence ship Rostock 141 (ex-Nerpa 1974-1989) 1978-1991

Model Klaus Irmscher Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Project 1159 Del'fin anti submarine warfare frigate. Koni I -class called by NATO. Built by USSR Shipbuilder Sudnoye Zaod Krasniy Metallist, Zeledolsk, Volga river, Taristan, Soviet Union as export ship. Especially for anti submarine warfare. Pennant became F 224 on 3 October 1990 and commissioned in East German navy on 25 July 1978. After she was used for explosion tests, sold and sunk in the North Sea. Laid down on 22 October 1974, launched on 4 June 1977, commissioned on 31 December 1977 and decommissioned on 31 December 1991 

Construction status of the German submarine U 2457 in July 1944

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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 137. Date building ordered 289 October 1943. Date completion -. Remarks construction by decision of Ob.d.M. for the time being postponed.

Source

Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 147. 

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

A list dealing dated 23 June 1918 reported the status of work on the submarines expected on 23 June. Work started on 1 June. Planned completion on 13 June. Description of the work stern damage. Remarks replaced on 16 June 1918.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM 3-11254. 

Kutter yacht near light ship Swantewitz in the harbour of Stettin, Germany [nowadays Poland]

Painted in 1895 by Robert Parlow (26 February 1835 Stepnica, Poland-1901). 

Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

British merchant steamship Deccan hired for the Sudan campaign in 1885

Engaged by the British government for the new expedition to the Soudan. Gross tonnage 3,429 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.

Source

The Steamship dated 16 February 1885, p. 64. 

British anti-submarine frigate HMS Loch Eye 1945

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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.

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

German Navy denied British broadcast about Geman unrestricted submarine warfare according to a report of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

Diary note dated Saturday 9 September 1939. An item reported that he was called on the phone around 19.30 o’clock by captain Mirow (1) who was head of the Attache Group in the German Navy department. Mirow stated that the British radio broadcast that Germany was waging unrestricted submarine warfare was enterily false and that the Kriegsmarine emphatically denied this broadcast. The Attaché immediately informed the Chargé and after dinner the US Navy Department.

Note

1. Hans Mirow (30 August 1895 Wandsbek-9 June 1986 Bremen, Germany), promoted in 1943 to the rank of rear admiral?

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)

Nationalist Chinese Navy District patrol vessel YP 412 1950s

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British whaler Truelove arrived at Hull, England in 1834

Returning from the northern fishery. Named in the list for 1820. Tonnage 296 tuns. Crew 43 men. tuns of oil 60. tuns of bone 3. Number of whales caught 9. Owner or agent T. Ward.

Source

The Trade and Commerce of Hull and its ships&shipowners. Past and present. Hull, 1878, p. 82-83. 

Japanese patrol vessel PS 45 1950s

PS 44. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Operated by the Maritime Safety Board. Length about 147.6 feet

No daily conference at German Navy Department according to a report of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

Diary note dated Sunday 10 September 1939. An item reported that there was no conference at the German Nay Department that day. The newspapers and radio repeated the news of the day before.

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)

Portugese fishery patrol boat No. 6 anno 1942

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First two boats laid down by Arsenal d’Alfeite, Portugal in September 1938, launched summer 1941. Diesel propulsion, range 850 nautical miles/11 knots, two screws, horsepower 2,600 hp speed 19 knots and fuel oil bunker capacity 25 ton. Armaament 2x2-25mm anti aircraft guns.

American whaler Almira visited Lahaina, Hawaii according to the newspaper The Polynesian dated 19 November 1853

An item reported the arrival at Lahaina, Hawaii on 4 November of the American whaler Almira master Jenks of Edgartown coming fron the Arctic 500 barrels whale oil 5,000 lbs bone

Italian ocean going diesel-electric submarine Reginaldo Giuliani 1939-1943 and German U.I.T. 1943-1944

Brin-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Liuzzi-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Liuzzi-class of which totally 4 four were built preceded by Brin-class. Laid down by Cantieri NavaleTosi, Taranto, Italy on 13 March 1939, launched on 3 December 1939, commissioned on 3 February 1940, converted into a cargo submarine with a cargo capacity of 130-160 ton in early 1943, arrived at Singapore coming from Bordeaux, France on 26 July 1943, seized by the German forces due to the Italian armistice and became the U.I.T. 23, active on shipping line Singapore Singapore-Batavia, Dutch East Indies, torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine HMS Tally-Ho south of Penaning in the Malacca Strait on 14 February 1944 and stricken on 29 February 1947

British cargo ship Fu-Ping seized by Russia in 1904

Gross tonnage 1,393 tons. Seized at Port Arthur on previous 10 February 1904, relased on 10 February, fired on when departing te harbor and afterwards visiting Wei-hai-wei to be repaired. 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. 

Japanese cargo ship (ex-Hallfried 1921-1927, Taijin Maru 1927-1938) Taizin Maru 1938-1944

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Call sign JCMC. Ordered in 1917, launched by the shipyard N.V.en Rijkeee&Co., Rotterdam, Netherlands and machinery from Werkspoor, Amsterdam, Netherlands for A/S Dampskibet, Bergen, Norway on 28 October 1921, completed in April 1922, sold to Japan in 1927. Owner in 1939 Shimomura Kisen K.K and managers Taryo Kaiun K.K. Homeport Hutyu, Japan. Gross tonnage 5,155 tons, under deck 4,885 tons, net tonnage 3,642, deadweight 7,500 tons and as dimensions 375.0 x 51.2 x 34.1 x 8.7 (light)-25.11 (loaded) feet. Diesel propulsion, oil bunker capacity 1,011 tons, range 31,000 nautical miles/9 knots, horsepower 563 nhp and speed 9 (normal cruising)-11 (maximum) knots. Torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Pogy (SS-266) northeast of Formosa/Taiwan om 20 February 1944.

Deed of chartering for Dutch Greenland whaler St. Jan in 1662

Deed of chartering dated 15 March 1662 by merchant Symon Gijblant with master Heyndrick Jansz Buyser for the ship St. Jan of 130 last for a whaling voyage to Greenland commandeur Glijblant and to return afterwards to Rotterdam to be unloaded payment 2,800 guilders and 6 guilders each caught whale.

Source

Stadsarchief Rotterdam. Notary Vitus Mustelius Woutersz 18-515-126

British mine countermeasure vessel HMS Bicester M 36 1985-2001 and Greek Europa M62 2001-

Part of Hunt-class mine counter measures vessels. Laid down by Vosper Thornycroft, launched on 4 June 1985, commissioned in 1988, decommissioned in 2000, sold to Greece in 2001. 

British cargo ship Manaar torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-38 according to a report of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

Diary note dated Sunday 10 September 1939. An item reported that the British radio reported that the British cargo ship Manaar was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic on 7 September without any warning. The German press reported that after the landing survivors were questioned and stated that she was armed with 10cm/5.94” guns served by gun crews and that they started the hostilities by opening fire on the German submarine.(1)

Note

1. The British steamship Manaar, completed by C. Connell&Co. Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland in 1917, after gunfire torpedoed and sunk by the U-38 on 6 September 1939 around 70 miles south west of Cape da Roca. Survivors were rescued by Dutch, Portuguese and Italian ships respecttively Mars, Carvalho Araujo and Castelbiano.

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)

German floating battery Medusa (1900) 1940-1945

Model made by Günther Seherr. Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Gazelle-class cruisers. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Gazelle-class light cruisers preceded by SMS Hela succeeded by Bremen-class. Ordered under the contract name “E”. Laid down by AG Weser shipyard, Bremen on 22 January 1900, launched on 5 December 1900, first time commissioned on 26 July 1901, stricken on 27 March 1929, converted into a floating anti aircraft battery in July 1940, scuttled on 3 May 1945 and broken up between 1948-1950. Served in the Vareler Deep as part of the Marine-Flak-Abteiling 222

British and French passengers ships Queen Mary and Normandie laid up at New York, USA according to a report of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

Diary note dated Sunday 10 September 1939. An item reported that the French passenger ship Normandie (1) and the British passenger ship Queen Mary (2) were laid up at New York, USA with skelton crews. The main part of their crews returned home with other ships. The German press reported fighting between the French and British sailors, the first accusing the latter of dragging them into the war.

Notes

1. Laid down by Chantiers de Penhoet, Saint-Nazaire, France on 26 January 1931, launched on 29 October 1932, completed in 1933, maiden voyage started on 29 May 1935, taken over by the USA on 20 December 1941, was to become a troop transport (earlier proposed conversion into an aircraft carrier) and renamed USS Lafayette, caught fire on 9 February and capsized on 10 February 1942 and broken up between October 1946-31 December 1948.

2. Ordred on 3 April 1929, laid down by John Brow&Company, Clydebank, Scotland with yard number 534 on 1 December 1930, launched on 26 September 1934, maiden voyage started on 27 May 1936, converted at Sydeny, Australia into a trop transport in 1940, out of service on 9 December 1967 and became floating hotel/museum ship.

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)

Construction status of the German kriegsfischkutter KFK 424 in 1944

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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 424. Date building ordered 3 October 1942. Date completion unknown depends on delivery propulsion allowing a future maximum completion of 5-7 Kriegsfischkutters possible.

Source

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

Deed of chartering for Dutch Greenland whaler de Vier Heemskinderen in 1662

Deed of chartering dated 21 March 1662 by merchant Jean Weymans with merchant and owner Elcken Reynders of Harlingen for the ship de Vier Heemskinderen of 150 last for a whaling voyage to Greenland afterwards to return to Rotterdam to be unloaded payment 3,200 guilders.

Source

Stadsarchief Rotterdam. Notary Vitus Mustelius Woutersz 18-515-135

Construction status of the German submarine U 2456 in July 1944

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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 136. Date building ordered 289 October 1943. Date completion -. Remarks construction by decision of Ob.d.M. for the time being postponed.

Source

Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 147.

German chemical/oil products tanker Liselotte Essberger 2023-

Vlissingen, Netherlands 15-3-2026

Portugal/Madeira-flagged, IMO 9939785, MMSI 255890000 and call sign CQWR. Built by China Merchants Jinling Sy (Yangzhou) Dingheng Co. Ltd., Yangzhou, China in 2023. In 2023 Germany-flagged. Owner Liselotte Essberger Tankreederei Gmbh&Co Kg, manager John T. Essberger Gmbh&Co Kg, both at Hamburg, Germany. 

British merchant steamship Geelong hired for the Sudan campaign in 1885

Engaged by the British government for the new expedition to the Soudan. Gross tonnage 1,835 tons. Service in Red Sea. 

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.

Source

The Steamship dated 16 February 1885, p. 64. 

German container ship (ex-Frisian Cruiser 2008, Polarico 2008, Ice Crystal 2008-2009, Mell Senang 2009-2011, Ice Crystal 2011-2018, Sunset X 2018, Samkip Skalafell 2018-2020, Pluto 2020-2022, Vento di Ponente 2022-2024) Sunset X 2024-

Vlissingen, Netherlands 15-3-2026

Antigua&Barbuda-flagged, homeport St. John’s, IMO 9440590, MMSI 305412000 and call sign V2EF4. Built by Sainty Yangzhou Shipbuilding, Yangzhou, China. Owner/manager Kontor 17 Mpm Gmbh, Hamburg, Germany. Built in 2008. Gibraltar-flagged 2008-2009, Antigua&Barbuda-flagged 2009, Germany-flagged 2009-?

American whaling barque Newton visited Lahaina, Hawaii according to the newspaper The Polynesian dated 19 November 1853

An item reported the arrival at Lahaina, Hawaii on 3 November of the American whaling barque Newton master Sherman of New Bedford coming from the Arctic 7-0 barrels whale oil 11,000 lbs bone

Italian chemical/oil products tanker Lisca Nera M 2009-

Vlissingen, Netherlands 15-3-2026

Italy-flagged, homeport Catania, IMO 9536692, MMSI 247273700 and call sign IBGM. Built by Santierul Naval Constanta Sa, Constanta, Romania in 2009. Italy-flagged 2009-, temporarily Portugal-flagged in 2024. Owner/manager Augusta Due Srl, Roma, Italy. 

British cargo ship Foxton Hall seized by Russia 1904

Gross tonnage 4,247 tons. Type cargo coal. Seized at Port Arthur on 8 February 1904, released around 12 March. Undamaged but all loose articles like food, stores etc. and certain machinery parts were taken. Stayed at Chefoo in view of claim against the Russian government. 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. 

British destroyer HMS Radiant 1916-1920 and Thai destroyer HTMS Pha Ruang 1920-1959

Pra Ruang. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of R-class destroyers preceded by Admiralty M-class succeeded by Admiralty V- and S-classes. Ordered in July 1915, launched by John I., Thornycroft&Comapny, Woolston, England on 25 November 1916, commissioned in February 1917, sold to her builder on 21 June 1920, sold to Thailand in September 1920, training ship decommissioned in 1957 and stricken in 1959. 

German submarine UB 113 under repair at the Kaiserliche Werft, Kiel, Germany in 1918

A list dealing dated 23 June 1918 reported the status of work on the submarines expected on 23 June. Work started on 17 June 1918. Planned completion on 30 June. Description of the work remaining work. Remarks none.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM 3-11254. 

British mine countermeasure vessel HMS Quorn M 41 1986-2020 and Lithuanian Suduvis M42

Part of Hunt-class mine counter measures vessels. Laid down by 2 June 1986on 2 June 1986, launched on 23 January 1986, commissioned on 21 April 1989, decommissioned on 14 December 2017, sold to Lithiania in 2020, undergoing modernization.

Italian long range submarine Guglielmotti 1936-1942

Brin-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Liuzzi-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Brin-class preceded by Archimede-class succeeded by Liuzzi-class. Laid down by Tosi, Taranto, Italy on 3 December 1936, launched on 11 September 1938, commissioned on 12 October 1938, torpedoed and sunk by British submarine HMS Unbeaten around 15 miles south of Cape Spartivento on 17 March 1942 and stricken on 18 October 1946. 

German battleship Schleswig-Holstein forced muniton dump at Westerplatte, Poland to surrender according to a report of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

Stockholm, Sweden, 1929

Diary note dated Friday 8 September 1939. An item reported that to the noon call of the German Department of Navy hardly offered any naval news. The landing force of the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein assisted by an Engineer Battalion and with support of the ship’s guns captured the munition dump at the Westerplatte at 09.50 o’clock. What was left of her garrizon surrendered. The city Gdynia, Poland was still not fallen.(1)

Note

1. Part of Deutschland-class preceded by Braunschweig-class succeeded by Nassau-class, ordered on 11 June 1904, laid down by Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany on 18 August 1905, launched on 17 December 1906, commissioned on 6 July 1908, decommissioned between 2 May 1917 and 31 January 1926, sunk in a British air attack at Gotenhafen [Gdynia, Poland] in December 1944, scuttled on 21 March 1945, salvaged and beached and used as a target between 1948-1966. Remains nowadays submerged.

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)

Norwegian chemical/oil products tanker (ex-Nosi 2010-2013, Gazela 2023-2025) Key Stream 2025-

Vlissingen, Netherlands 15-3-2026

Cyprus-flagged, homeport Limassol, IMO 9525572, MMSI 212878000 and call sign 5BYC3. Owner Freyja AS, Maaloy and manager Sea Tank Chartering AS, Bergen, both Norway. Built by Desan Shipyard, Istanbul, Turkey in 2010. Malta-flagged 2010-2013, Netherlands-flagged 2010, since 2013 Cyprus-flagged.