German inland passenger vessel Hansa 2003-

Bremerhaven, Germany 19 April 2026

Germany-flagged, ENI 05306990, MMSI 211112160 and call sign DEPR. According to a brochure titled Salondampfer Hansa Das Restaurantschiff is the hull is of the former East German navy tug Hai completed after the Second World War using an uncompleted hull dating from the 1930s. Launched by VEB Edgar Andre as icebreaker Pu,a M-9-464 for account of Poland in 1954, order councelled and handed over to the Wasserstrassenhauptamt Magdeburg, Germany and received No. 2673. Modernized by VEB Schiffswerft at Rosslay, launched in 1959, as Hai (A13 later A11). commissioned in the East German Nay , modernized by VEB Peenewerft, Wolgast between 1977-1978, decommissioned on 3 August 1990, decided to be sold in 1991. Between 2000-2003 converted into the Hansa.

Sources

Breyer, Siegfried, Die Volksmarine in der DDR.

Schäfer , Knut and Peter Seemann. DDR-Marine 1949-1990.

Mehl, Hans, Knut Schäfer and Ulrich Israel. Vom Küstenschutzboot zum Raketenschiff.

Brochure Salondampfer Hansa Das Restaurantschiff

Navyworld dated 20 April 1990

Forum Marinearchiv dated 20 April 1990

German blockade runner ms Regensburg 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. Regensburg. Loaded with 3,600 ton rubber. Left Dairen on 5 May 1941 and arrived at Bordeaux, France on 27 June 1941.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM 7/223

German screw steam tug Welle 1914-

Bremerhafen, Germany 19 April 2026

Orderred at Atlas-Werke, Brem, Germany in July 1914, launched on 11 April 1915. Originally also to be used as icebreaker. Double screw steamship. Dimensions 37.36 x 7.20 x 2.80 metres. 

Huge number of mines swept in Norwegian areas in 1945

An item reported that in the Norwegian Oslo, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Tromso areas 711,000 mines were swept and destroyed which was just little over 50% of the total laid mines in these areas.

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. 

British anti-submarine frigate HMS Loch Lyon (K 635) 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 Swan Hunter. 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 merchant steamship Gamecock hired for the Sudan campaign in 1885

Engaged by the British government for the new expedition to the Sudan. Gross tonnage 370 tons. Towing purposes. 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. 

American destroyer USS Dunlap DD-384 1935-1947

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 United Shipyards Inc., Staten Island, New York, City, USA on 10 April 1935, launched on 18 April 1936, commissioned on12 June 1937, decommissioned on 14 December 1945 and sold on 31 December 1974. 

Construction status of the German kriegsfischkutter KFK 456 in 1944

©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by Gusto, Schiedam, Netherlands. Yard number 155. Date building ordered3 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. 

Japanese cargo ship (ex-Fukusei Maru 1918-1938) Hukusei Maru 1938-

Heiryo Maru. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Similar Heiryo Maru (1918)-Hukusei Maru (1918), Teikai Maru (1918), Tosyo Maru (1918) and Toyo Maru (1918). Call sign JRDE. Built by Osaka Zosensho K.K., Osaka, Japan in 1918. Gross tonnage 1,223 tons, under deck 1,039 tons, netto tonnage 722 tons, deadweight 1,950 tons and as dimensions 225.0 x 33.0 x 18/7 x 5’6” (light)-16 (loaded) feet. Reciprocating propulsion, single screw, horsepower 97 nhp, bunker capacity 160 ton coal, range 2,000 nautical miles/7 knots and speed 7(normal cruising)-8 (maximum) knots. 

Allied forces attacking Japanese island outposts in the western Halmaheras, Dutch East Indies in July 1945

An item reported that an Allied shore raiding party transported with light craft by daylight attacked Japanese island outposts in the western Halmaheras, Dutch East Indies. Supported by Allied aircraft were several warehouses and small craft destroyed.

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. 

Argentinian destroyer ARA Corrientes 1895-1930

Sister ship Entre Rios, Corrientes-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Catamarca-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Corrientes-class succeeded by Catamarca-class. Laid down by Yarrow, Popla

Part of Corrientes-class succeeded by Catamarca-class. Laid down by Yarrow, Poplar, England with yard number 1021 in 1895, launched on 10 October 1896, completed in January 1898 and stricken in October 1903. 

British screw steam transport Hydaspes 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 87, present position Constantinople, Turkey, remarks under orders of rear admiral Boxer. 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. 

German whale catcher RAU IX 1939-

Bremerhafen, Germany 19 April 2026

Built by Deschimag, Werk Seebeck, Wesermünde [Bremerhaven], Germany in 1939 for Walter Rau Lebensmittelwerke GmbH, taken over by the navy and became a submarine chaser , after1945 used as minehunter, handed over as reparation to Norway in 1948, renamed as whale catcher Krutt, laid up late 1960s and became a museumship at Bremerhaven.

British minesweeping trawler Kurd sunk in 1945

An item reported that the minesweeping trawler Kurd sunk after striking a mine off the Lizard on 10 July. Of her crew of 27 men 11 survived.(1)

Note

1. FY 639. British trawler built by Cochrane&Sons Shipbuilders Ltd., Selby, England in 1930, requisitioned by the British Royal Navy in 1939

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. 

British destroyer HMS Westphal 1919

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 Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend,England, transferred to J. Samuel White & Company, Cowes, Wight, order cancelled on 12 April 1919. 

France hired transport Cachemire 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 1 April with an Algerian regiment 100 Lefevre carts for mule transport.

Source

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

Japanese minesweeper MS 11 1950s

©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

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? 

Construction status of the German submarine U 2289 in 1944

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. 

French civil training ship Almak 2012-

Scheveningen, Netherlands 17 April 2026

France-flagged, homeport Concarneau, IMO 9682033, MMSI 228037900 and call sign FIIA. Laid down by Chantier Piriou Freres, Concarneau, France in September 2012, launched on 11 July 2013 and commissioned on 27 September 2012. Preceded by Léopard-class. Based on the P43 design developed by her builders. Owner Defense Council International (DCI), manager Navocean, Paris, France. Used for training cadets of foreign navies of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya and Quatar.

The estimated material and personnel strength of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force in 1960 according to the Australia Station Intelligence Summary dated 1 June 1955

An item reported that under the present 6-year programme the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force would have in 1960 totally 120,700 tons naval shipping, 179 aircraft including jets and a personnel strength of 33,600 men.

Source

Website Royal Australian Navy, Sea Power Centre.

American battleship preliminary design for a hypothetical 63,500 tons battleship dated 13-12-1916

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Dimensions 975.0 (water line)-998’0” (over all) x 103.0 (extreme on waterline)-105’6” (molded on water line) x 32.9 feet. Freeboard maximum at stem 29’6”, at A.P. 29’6” feet and at side 28’6”.

Total normal displacement: 63,500 tons.

Hull 30,150

Hull fittings 3,065

Protection 13,300

Steam engineering 6,250

Reserve feed 1,200

Battery 2,850

Ammunition 2,000

Equipment 775

Outfit and 2/3 stores 1,050

Fuel oil 2/3 full supply 2,850

Margin 10

 

Length boiler room 24, engine room 120, motor rooms 56, total machinespace 264.

Main side belt armor 19.8 1/2 extreme width 9’0”below water line-thickness 13”-13”-7”.

Barbettes thickness 12.5” (heavy part)-4’ (light part).

Turrets thickness 18’(port)-10-9” (sides)-5” (top)-9”(rear).

Conning tower proper thickness 16”and top 8”.

Conning tower tube thickness 16” (heavy part)-6” (light part).

Uptake protection thickness 10-7-5”.

Protective deck total thickness middle 3”after 4”.

Speed 30 knots with 90,000 shp. Electric drive propulsion. Cruising radius 10 knots/12,000 nautical miles. 24 Boiler rooms.

Armament 4x3-16” 50 cal guns, 21-5” quick firing guns, 3” high powered anti aircraft guns and 4-21” submerged torpedo tubes.

Note

1. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (11 August 1847-3 July 1918), Democratic Party plotician, governor of South Carolina 1890-1894 and senator 1895-1918. See for instance: Construction of battleships. Remarks of Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman,... relative to the construction of 60,000-ton battleships; also copy of a Senate resolution instructing the Committee on Naval Affairs to make an investigation of the matter, together with an article entitled "Build the Limit," by Commander W.A. Moffett, United States Navy. Presented by Mr. Tillman. June 20, 1916. It deals with the maximum size of a battleship still able to pass the Panama Canal.

Source

S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Bureau of Ships Spring Styles Book 1 1911-1925. S-584-104. 

France hired transport Canton 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] on 1 April with Algerian regiment.

Source

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

Russian survey vessel Okhotsk 1934-1960s

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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 203 on 27 June 1934, launched on 1 November 1935, commissioned on 20 April 1937 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, volumes 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.

Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

British whaler Narwhul visited Bay of Islands, New Zealand in 1836

Fishermen in boats have been attacking a whale but one boat is upset and a man is falling out. Coloured engraving by F. Duncan after W.J. Huggins 1834

Arrived on 15 December, barque, name master Brind, tonnage 350 tons, belonged to London, England, active in the sperm oil fishery, cargo 1,000 barrels oil

Source

Accounts and papers of the House of Commons: seventeen volumes. Colonies; Emigration; Australia; Prisons, West Indies;etc. Session 15 November 1837-16 August 1838. Vol. XL. 

German cargo ship (ex-Analena 2006, MSC Portugal 2006-2008, Analena 2008-2020, NCL Averoy 2020-2025) Elbia 20225-

Bremerhaven, Germany 19 April 2026

Antigua&Barbuda-flagge , homeport St. John's, IMO 9326990, MMSI 305573000 and call sign V2IE4. Owner/manager Danz&Tietjens Schiffahrtsgruppe, Burg, Germany. Built by JJ Sietas Schifsswerft, Hamburg, Germany in 2006. Germany-flagged, 2006, United KIngdom-flagged 2006-2008, Germany-flagged 2008-2009, United Kingdom-flagged 2009-2014, Portugal-flagged 2014-2025). 

Russian submarine L-19 1935-1944

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Part of L Series XIII-class. In 1938 intended to be christened in Gor’kovets. Laid down by Baltic Works, Leningrad, Soviet Union with yard number 276 on 26 December 1935, disassembled and sent to 202 (Dalzavod), Vladivostok and assembled, launched on 25 May 1938, completed on 4 November 1939, commissioned on 4 November 1939 and sunk after 23 August 1945 probably striking a mine in the La Pérouse Strait. 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

Construction status of the German kriegsfischkutter KFK 455 in 1944

©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by Gusto, Schiedam, Netherlands. Yard number 154. Date building ordered3 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. 

British anti-submarine frigate HMS Loch Eyenort 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 mule transport Empress 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 mule transport Empress for service in the Mediterranean. Number transport 14. Tonnage 780 tons. Horsepower 140hp. Rate per ton per month. If discharged at home 30s10d and abroad 30s0d. Date of acceptance 6 September. Likely to sail not yet known. On passage to Deptford. 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.

Australian whaler Wolf visited Bay of Islands, New Zealand in 1836

Fishermen in boats have been attacking a whale but one boat is upset and a man is falling out. Coloured engraving by F. Duncan after W.J. Huggins 1834

Arrived on15 December, barque, name master Evans, tonnage 265 tons, belonged to New South Wales, active in the sperm oil fishery, cargo 800 barrels oil

Source

Accounts and papers of the House of Commons: seventeen volumes. Colonies; Emigration; Australia; Prisons, West Indies;etc. Session 15 November 1837-16 August 1838. Vol. XL. 

German sail training schip Deutschland 1927-

Bremerhaven, Germany 19 April 2026

Launched by Joh. C. Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Germany on 14 June 1927, delivered late 1927, at the end of the Second World War used as hospital ship, nowadays museum ship. 

Construction status of the German submarine U 2288 in 1944

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. 

British destroyer HMS White Bear 1918

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 Fairfield Shipbuilding&Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland. Order cancelled on 26 November 1918.

British merchant ship Batavia 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 Batavia of the Cunard Line.

Source

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

Japanese auxiliary patrol boat No. 84 1945-1948 and MS 19 1948-

©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. Built by Yonago. Completed on 7 June 1945, handed over to the Japan Maritime Safety Agency and renamed MS 19 on 1 May 1948.

Australian whaler Genii visited Bay of Islands, New Zealand in 1836

Fishermen in boats have been attacking a whale but one boat is upset and a man is falling out. Coloured engraving by F. Duncan after W.J. Huggins 1834

Arrived on 15 December, brig , name master Banks, tonnage 164 tons, belonged to New South Wales, active in the sperm oil fishery, cargo 500 barrels oil

Source

Accounts and papers of the House of Commons: seventeen volumes. Colonies; Emigration; Australia; Prisons, West Indies;etc. Session 15 November 1837-16 August 1838. Vol. XL. 

Dutch sailing passenger vessel (ex-Marie 1903-1945, Sea Explorer 1945-1965, Ruth 1965-1985, Elektra 1985-2008) Oban 2008-

Scheveningen, Netherlands 17 April 2026

Netherlands-flagged, homeport Kampen, Netherlands, IMO 9096650, MMSI 246085000 and call sign PDWJ. Built at Emden, Germany as herring lugger Marie AE95 by Cassens Werft in 1903, sold to Denmark in 1930 active between the Danish islands and Sweden, since 1985 passenger ship. 2-Mast schooner. 

Australian whaler Mary visited Bay of Islands, New Zealand in 1836

Fishermen in boats have been attacking a whale but one boat is upset and a man is falling out. Coloured engraving by F. Duncan after W.J. Huggins 1834

Arrived on 11 December, barque , name master Dryborough, tonnage - tons, belonged to New South Wales, active in the sperm oil fishery, cargo 1,600 barrels oil

Source

Accounts and papers of the House of Commons: seventeen volumes. Colonies; Emigration; Australia; Prisons, West Indies;etc. Session 15 November 1837-16 August 1838. Vol. XL. 

Japanese patrol vessel PS 73 1950s

PS 66. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Operated by the Maritime Safety Board. Length about 121.6 feet

British screw steam transport Harbinger 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 86, present position Constantinople, Turkey, remarks sent for vegetables for the army. 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 anti-submarine frigate HMS Loch Linnhe (K 632) 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 William Pickersgill. 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

Construction status of the German submarine U 2287 in 1944

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.

German sailing passenger ship (ex-Vilm 1952-1992) Roald Amundsen 1992-

Scheveningen, Netherlands 17 April 2026

Germany-flagged, homeport Eckernförde, IMO 8994489, MMSI 211215170 and call sign DARG. Built as a fish- annex tank lugger, homeport Peenemünde by Rosslau shipyard, Wolgast, DDR in 1952. Part of the East German navy Project RL 235 tanker, derived from tank luggers as built by Matthias Thesen Werft, Wismar? Converted into a brig in 1992 and maiden vyoage in 1993. Ex-Vilm renamed January 1992.