Netherlands-flagged, homeport Delfzijl, IMO 921824, MMSI 246498000 and call sign PECH. Built by Tille Scheepsbouw, Kootstertille, Netherlands in 2000. Owner/manager Amasus Shipping, Farmsum, Netherlands.
An item reported that the USA and Spain signed on 30 April an agreement to modernize the navy of the last country. For the first phase was maximum 25,252,465,00 US dollars avaible and which budget was not to be exceeded and 24 ships to be modernized. Second phase of the programme was yet not decided. The involved ships were 2 Alava-class destroyers (to be equipped with Squid/Asdic and 3-3” Mk 34 guns, (Jane’s 1958-9 mentioned the Alava and Liniers laid down on 21 December 1944, respectively 1 January 1945), 4 Churruca-class destroyers (Jane’s 1958-9 reports dating from the 1930s), 4 Audaz-class corvettes (to be fitted out with 2-3” Mk34 guns, (Jane’s 1958-9 called anti submarine frigates, laid down in 1945), 5 Tambre-class minesweepers, 2 Descubierta-class corvettes, 2 Pizarro-class corvettes (Jane’s 1958-9 called frigates since 1958, laid down in 1944), 2 Jupiter-class minelayers (Jane’s 1958-9 called frigate minelayers, dating from the 1903s), 2 D-class submarines and 1 training ship.
Source
Website Royal Australian Navy, Sea Power Centre.
Clemson-class type. Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
USS Aylwin, Farragut-class. Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
USS Porter, Porter-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Farragut-class preceded by Clemson-class succeeded by Porter-class. Together with the Portland-class authorized by the Congress on 29 April 1916 although without the necessary funding, causing a seriously delay in actual building. Laid down by Philadelphia Navy Yard on 23 September 1933, launched on 10 July 1934, commissioned on 1 March 1935, decommissioned on 16 October 1945, stricken on 1 Noveber 1945 and sold to be broken up on 20 December 1946.
An item reported that at Lahaina, Hawaii on 30 October the American whaling barque S. Wheaton master Green was cleared for cruising.
Seymour, Parker-class flotilla leader. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Sistership Veteran. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
HMS Amazon D39 (1925-1927). ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
An Admiralty modified W-class destroyer ordered under the 14th War Programme . Of the 38 ships ordered were just 7 completed, the other 31 were cancelled. Preceded by S-and Parker-classes and succeeded by Thornycroft type destroyer leaders Ambuscade and Amazon. To be built by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland. Order cancelled on 26 November 1918.
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 103, present position Varna, Bulgaria, remarks sent to bring over military stores etc. The Crimean War found place between 16 October 8153-30 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.
An item reported that the French Navy 1955 shipbuilding programm included 1-22,000 tons aircraft carrier (same tonnage as the Clemenceau already laid down and to be completed in 1958)(1), 1-16,50 ton escort vessel, 3-750 tons submarine chasers of an improved design and 3-1,700 tons Le Corse-class escorts (originally 15 were laid down of which 4 were to completed) (2).
1. Jane’s Fighting Ships 1959-1959 mentioned the Clemenceau PA54 laid down in November 1955 and the Foch PA55 laid down on 15 November 1957 both of 22,000 (standard)-27,307 (full load) tons, both Clemenceau-class preceded by planned Joffre-class and realized Béarn and succeeded by Charles de Gaulle.
2. Jane’s Fighting Ships 1959-1959 mentioned the Le Corse-class E50 type consisting of the Le Bordelais, Le Brestois, Le Boulonnais and Le Corse with a displacement of 1,290-1,528 (trials)-1,702 (full load) tons, designed as seagoing convoy vessels (Escorteurs Rapides Antisubmarins), rerated as Escorteurs de Deuxiène Class in 1951, Escorteurs in 1953 and as Escorteurs Rapides in 1955.
Source
Website Royal Australian Navy, Sea Power Centre.
An item reported the arrival at Honolulu, Hawaii on 31 October of the Hansa. [Hanseatic?] whaling brig Reners coming from the Artic 70 barrels whale oil 2.000 lbs bone.
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 mule transport Parana for service in the Mediterranean. Number transport 15. Tonnage 1,320 tons. Horsepower 180hp. Rate per ton per month. If discharged at home 25s0d and abroad 25s0d. Date of acceptance 4 September. Likely to sail not yet known. Now being prepared for service with the Abyssinian expedition at. Victoria Docks, London, England. Engaged for three 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.
Source
Accounts and papers: thirty-five volumes. Army. Abyssinian expedition. Session 19 November 1867-31 July 1868. Vol. XLIII., p. 115.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 28 April 2026
Cayman Islands-flagged, IMO 9414058, MMSI 319963000 and call sign ZCXG7. Owner/manager Stolt Island BV, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Built by STX Norway Floro AS, Floro, Norway in 2009
An item referred to a list of whalers spoken or heard from in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Straits and vicinity mentioned the whaler Mary Ann master Dallmann of Fairhaven 1 killer this season.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Yard Deutsche Werke, Skaramangas, Greece. Date building ordered 6 May 1943. Date completion February 1945.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
Engaged by the British government for the new expedition to the Sudan. Gross tonnage 1,840 tons. tons. Transported ordnance stores. 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.
Project 705 Lira/NATO: Alfa-I class©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Project 945 Barrakuda/NATO: Sierra-class I©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Project 971 Shchuka-B/NATO: /Akula ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of the Project 705 Lira/NATO: Alfa-I class, preceded by Victor-class succeeded by Project 945 Barrakuda and Project 945A Kondor/NATO: Sierra-class I and II and Akula-class. Laid down by Admiralty (Sudomekh), Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Russia on 26 June 1972, launched on 19 April 1978, commissioned on29 December 1979 and decommissioned on 10 April 1990.
Sources
Breyer, S. and N. Polmar. Guide to the Soviet Navy, 2nd edition.
Jordan, J. Soviet submarines 1945 to the present.
Kouznetsov, N. La Marine sovietique en guerre 1941-1945.
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.
Schulz-Troge, U. Die sowjetische Kriegsmarine.
Jane’s Fighting Ships several editions.
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Oscar-classdated 11 April 2026 15:53 o’clock
Russian ships info dated 12 April 2026 19:46 o’clock.
An item reported that during recent patrols in the Malacca Strait the British submarine HMS Trident shelled a Japanese airfield south east of Sabang, Dutch East Indies and further sunk a junk and a landing craft.(1)
Note
1. N52. Part of T-class preceded by Grampus-class succeeded by U-class. Laid down by Cammell Liard&Co. Limited, Birkenhead, England on 12 January 1937, launched on 7 December 1938, commissioned on 1 October 1939 and sold to be broken up on 17 February 1946.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-66-67-28 Weekly Résumé (No. 306) of the naval, military and air situation from 0700 5th July to 0700 12th July 1945.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 28 April 2026
Denmark-flagged, IMO 9808821, MMSI 219770000 and call sign OXLX2. Built in 2016. Owner Northern Offshore Services A/S.
An item reported that on 11 July 24 Hellcats attacked Japanese installations at Kota Radja, Northern Sumatra, Dutch East Indies loosing one Hellcat (pilot saved) and destroying one enemy aircraft.(1)
Note
1. The Grumman F6F was an American carrier-based fighter.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-66-67-28 Weekly Résumé (No. 306) of the naval, military and air situation from 0700 5th July to 0700 12th July 1945.
Deed of chartering dated 9 March 1660 between alderman of Delft Pieter van Lodensteijn and Joost Wittert for himself and other owners of the St. Pauls of 130 lasten to depart from Delfshaven with the other fishing vessels towards Greenland on whaling. Master Cornelis Jansen Harel.
Source
Stadsarchief Rotterdam. Notary Vitus Mustelius Wouters 18-511-96
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 Austrian of the Allan Line.
Source
The Nautical Magazine. Fifty-first year. Volume VII. July 1882.
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Sister ships Tonegawa Maru and Yamayuri Maru identical similar Ryunan Maru. Call sign JQKM, Owner in 1939 Koun Kisen K.K. (managers Yamashito Kisen K.K.), Kobe, Japan. Launched by J.L. Thompson&Sons Ld., Sunderland, England on 30 December 1910, completed in February 1911, owner Wilh. Wilhelmsen, Tonsberg, Norway, transferred to Far Eastern S.C. Co. Ltd. A/S in 1934 and torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Drum at Owase, Honshu, Japan on 20 October 1942. Gross tonnage 5,106 tons, under deck 4,717 tons, net tonnage 3,753 tons, deadweight 8,130 tons and as dimensions 400.0 x 52.0 x 27.4 x 7.9 (light)-24.9 (loaded) feet. Reciprocating propulsion, one screw, horsepower 458 nhp, coal bunker capacity 1,334 ton, range 10,500 nautical miles/10.5 knots and speed 10.5 (normal cruising)-12 (maximum) knots.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Yard Deutsche Werke, Skaramangas, Greece. Date building ordered 6 May 1943. Date completion January 1945.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 28 April 2026
Netherlands-flagged, hoemport Rotterdam, Netherlands, IMO 9153654, MMSI 245021000 and call sign PBFW. Owner/manager Jumbo Shipping, Schiedma, Netherlands. Built by Madenci Marine Industry, Karadeniz Eregli, Turkey in 2001.
According to the list and supplements 1-2 on 13 September 1945 BDZ No. 67 3sent 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 2-2cm guns supplied at New York on 26 March 1942.
Cargo ship, launched by Deutsche Schiff- & Machinenbau A.G., Werk Joh. C. Tecklenborg A.G., Wesermünde, Germany with yard number 425 in 1928, delivered in April 1928 as Lindenfels owner/manager Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft 'Hansa' A.G., Bremen, Germany, laid up at Sabang, Dutch East Indies in September 1939, seized by Dutch governement in May 1940, sold to manager N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Nederland', Amsterdam, Netherlands, owner N.V. Nederlandsch-Indische Maatschappij voor Zeevaart II, Batavia, Dutch East Indies and renamed Mangkalihat on 10 May 1940 and torpedoed by German submarine U 198 underway from Suez, Egypt via Cape Town, South Africa to the United Kingdom as part of convoy B.C.2 east of Lourence Marques on 1 August 1943 and sunk on 3 August despite salvage efforts.Source
Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands.
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Length 68.6 feet. The Chiyozuru-class with as dimensions 95 4/5 (overall) x 18 2/3 x 6 1/2 feeet and a displacement of 130 tons, wood-built between 1943-1945 as auxiliary sub chasers named after birds but which were before known as MS+number?
Transport/charrua, of the Companhia Geral de Pernambuco e Pariba, mentioned between 1775-1799, armanen t of28 guns.
Source
A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.
Mentioned between 1775-1795, charrua.
Source
A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 28 April 2026
Singapore-flagged, IMO 9969209, MMSI 563196400 and call sign 9V8452. Owner Goodwill Maritime Pte Ltd., Singapore, manager Cleanseas Shipmanagement Inc., Manila, Philippines. Built by Shin Kasado Dockyard Co. Ltd., Kudamatsu, Japan in 2023.
In a memorandum dated Berlin, Germany 24 November 1942 of the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine 3. Abteilung Seekriegsleistung was the Soviet merchant fleet in the Black Sea described. The majour source used for the memorandum were interrogations of prisoners of war. It became clear that in the Russian Black Sea harbours just 26 cargo ships with a total tonnage of 69,656 gross registers tons and 9 tankers with a total gross register tonnage of 45,790 ton were lying. Of this ships were however no more as 7 cargo ships (totally 18,998 BRT) and 3 tankers (14,45 BRT) available for tasks, the other ships were too damaged and regarded the present time not expected to be repaired on short notice.
Kreml, 7,661 tonsgross register tonnage, lying at Batum, Georgia, Damaged. (1)
Note
1. Call sign UOWD, gross tonnage 7,761, under deck 6,784 ton, net tonnage 4,111 ton, built by States Shipbuilding Yard Marti, Nikolaev, Ukraine, dimensions 446.0 x 56.1 x 34.2 feet. Homeport Tuapse.
Sources
Bundesarchiv RM45-V-85.
Lloyds Register 1939.
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Part of Okean-class consisting of the Murman, Okean and Okhotsk. Laid down by No. 194/A. Marti, Leningrad/St. Petersburg, Russia with yard number 201 on 28 May 1935, launched on 28 May 1935, commissioned on 3 March 1937, minelayer between 8 May 1939-8 December 1945 and stricken in the 1960s.
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-3.
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.
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.
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An item reported that at Honolulu, Hawaii on 15 November the American whaler Cowper master Cole was cleared for New Bedford.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 28 April 2026
Antigua&Barbuda-flagged, homeport St. John’s, IMO 9675080, MMSI 304067000 and call sign V2GS2. Owner MT Taugas Schiffahrts Gmbh&Co. Kg, manager Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts Gmbh&Co Kg., both at Bremen, Germany. Built by Stx Offshore&Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Jinhae, South Korea.
A list dealing dated 28 June 1918 reported the status of work on the submarines expected on 30 June. Work started on 22 April 1918. Planned completion on 17 June. Description of the work overhaul. Remarks replaced on 26 June 1918.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 3-11254.
Seymour, Parker-class flotilla leader. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Sistership Veteran. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
HMS Amazon D39 (1925-1927). ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
An Admiralty modified W-class destroyer ordered under the 14th War Programme . Of the 38 ships ordered were just 7 completed, the other 31 were cancelled. Preceded by S-and Parker-classes and succeeded by Thornycroft type destroyer leaders Ambuscade and Amazon. To be built by James Brown&Company Shipyard, Clydebank, Scotland. Order cancelled on 26 November 1918.
In his letter dated Istanbul, Turkey 12 February 1940 No. 729 g. reported the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Ausland the neutral ships passing Istanbul coming out of the Black Sea and loaded with contraband for or chartered by the enemy. An item reported the British tanker British Renown on 7 February 1940 underway from Constanta, Romania with 10,300 ton gasoline towards Gibraltar for orders. Reported passing FT on 9 February 1940. On the stern one gun, amidships 1 flak and mine protection device. Over all dark grey painted.
Source
Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché for , Greece, Romania and Bulgaria 1939-1941. RM 12-II/459.
Norway-flagged, IMO 9005754, MMSI 259179000 and call sign LAYI8. Built by Estaleiros Navais Do Mondego, Figueira Da Foz, Portugal in 1993. Germany-flagged 2005, Antigua&Barbuda-flagged 2005-2007, Barbados-flagged, homeport Bridgetown, MMSI 314251000 in 2007, Germany-flagged 2007 and Norway-flagged since 2024. Owner Wilson Shipowning AS, manager Wilson Ship Management AS, Bergen, Norway.
An item reported that at Honolulu, Hawaii on 15 November the American whaler Covington master Devoll was cleared for cruising.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Yard Deutsche Werke, Skaramangas, Greece. Date building ordered 6 May 1943. Date completion December 1944.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
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. Quito. Not loaded. Left Coquimbo, Chile on 17 Mei 1941. Arrived at Yokohama, Japan on 27 June 1941.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 7/223
River-class ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Loch-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 Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Company Ltdk, Blyth, England. 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
Engaged by the British government for the new expedition to the Soudan. Gross tonnage 2,966 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.
Clemson-class type. Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
USS Aylwin, Farragut-class. Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
USS Porter, Porter-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Farragut-class preceded by Clemson-class succeeded by Porter-class. Together with the Portland-class authorized by the Congress on 29 April 1916 although without the necessary funding, causing a seriously delay in actual building. Laid down by Boston Navy Yard on 21 November 1933, launched on 9 January 1935, commissioned on 19 April 1935 and lost in the Typhoon Cobra while underway from Hawaii towards Ulithi, Caroline Islands on 18 December 1944.
An item reported increased activities in refitting or even newbuilding of L.C.V.P.’s and L.C.M.’s at Shanghai, China. Most of the work was probably refitting. The figure of 30 L.C.V.P.’s and 20 L.C.M.’s was mentioned and which landing craft were possible to be used for occupying the Off-Shore Islands.
Source
Website Royal Australian Navy, Sea Power Centre.
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Pennant 13. Part of Trad-class preceded by Number 1-class succeeded by Kantang-class. Italians design, in fact a smaller Italian Spica-class. Laid down by Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy on 31 March 1935, launched on 16 October 1936, commissioned in later 1936, sunk as a target.
An item reported that at Honolulu, Hawaii on 13 November the American whaling bark Cherokee master Cleaveland was cleared for New Bedford.
Sistership Kempenfelt Marksman-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Seymour, Parker-class flotilla leader. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Built under the Six Emergency War Construction Programme. Ordered in July 1915. Part of Parker-class flotilla leaders preceded by Marksman-class and succeeded by Admiralty V-class. Laid down by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England on 2 March 1916, launched on 14 October 1916, commissioned on 21 December 1916 and sold to be broken up in January 1931.
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 103, present position Constantinople, Turkey, remarks commissariat stores. 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.
River-class ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Loch-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 Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Company Ltdk, Blyth, England. Cancelled in 1945. Loch-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
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
