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.
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.
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Operated by the Maritime Safety Board. Length about 121.6 feet
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.
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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 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
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.
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.
Arrived on 1 December, ship , name master Dennis, tonnage - tons, belonged to USA, active in the sperm oil fishery, cargo 1,500 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.
Destroyer of the DD 75-347 type. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Wickes-class light minelayer. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Wickes-class preceded by Caldwell-classs succeeded by Clemson-class divided into Little-subclass, Lamberton-subclass and Tattnall-subclasses. Laid down by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, USA on 20 April 1918, launched on 10 August 1918, commissioned on 12 July 1919, reclassified as minelayer DM-13 on 17 July 1920, decommissioned at Pearl Harbor, Hawaiion 15 August 1922, stricken on 1 December 1936 and sunk as a target on 20 July 1937.
Engaged by the British government for the new expedition to the Sudan. Gross tonnage 1,870 tons. Transported stores for Bombay. 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.
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HDML type. Formerly known as Harbour Defence Motor Launch, renumbered in 1951. Displacement 46 (standard)-54 (full load) tons and as dimensions 72 (over all) x 15 5/6 x 5 1/3 feet. Diesel propulsion with 2 shafts, horsepower 320 bhp and a speed if 12 knots. Crew numbered 14 men. Armament consisted of 1-3pd gun, 1-2cm anti aircraft gun.
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 Yugoslavian cargo ship Niko Matkowic on 3 February 1940 with a full load boards from Constanta, Romania for Tripoli, Libya.
Source
Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché for , Greece, Romania and Bulgaria 1939-1941. RM 12-II/459.
Netherlands-flagged, IMO 5209699, MMSI 244875000 and call sign PCFB. Gross tonnage 321 tons, summer deadweight 457 tons and as dimensions 59 x 7,01 x 3,49 metres. Sail area 1.050 square metres. Speed 7 (engine)-9 (sail) knots. One 550hp caterpillar with bow thruster Built in 1926 at the Nylands Verksted, Oslo, Norway for whale fishery in the Arctic and Antartic. In the 50’s of the 20th century converted into a cargo ship operated between Asia and South-America. In 2001 bought by the Bruinsma brothers and rebuilt.
Caught 21 whales resulting in 142 tons oil. Homeport Peterhead.
Source
Annals of Peterhead from the foundation to the present time. P. Buchan, Peterhead, 1819.
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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?
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 Palmyra of the Cunard Line.
Source
The Nautical Magazine. Fifty-first year. Volume VII. July 1882.
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Length 48.6 feet.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by Gusto, Schiedam, Netherlands. Yard number 153. 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.
Antwerpen, Belgium 10 April 2026
Netherlands-flagged, ENI 03021271, MMSI 244630162. Originally built by Haak, Zaandam, Netherlands in 1961 as inland cargo ship and converted into a fleet cleaner by TB-Shiprepair, Meppel, Netherlands between 2020-2021. Baptized on 16 July 2021 at Rotterdam. Owner Fleet Cleaner, Delft, Netherlands.
Deed of authority dated 19 March 1660 by which merchant Hugo Grootvelt authorized his brother in law Leonard Crijser to convert what had been verbally upon into written deeds of chartering for the ships De Jonge Glasemaker en de De Kous and the ship of master Pronck to serve as Greenland whalers.
Source
Stadsarchief Rotterdam. Notary Vitus Mustelius Woutersz 18-511-123
Part of Flower-class corvettes succeeded by Castle-class. Ordered on 25 July 1939, laid down by Fleming&Ferguson Ltd., Paisly, Scotland on 29 July 1940, launched on 30 January 1941, commissioned on 13 May 1941, sold to merchant shipping on 17 May 1947, renamed ss Cloverlock, later sold to People’s Republic of China. Stricken in 1989?
Length 180 feet. Signed by Robert Spencer Robinson controller of the navy 1861-1871, chief constructor 1840-1863 Isaac Watts, constructor 1862 Joseph Large acting constructor Richard Abethell 1862.
Source
Website Royals Museums Greenwich Collection search. ID NPC 90-759081
Ersatz Yorck-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Design P-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
O-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Preceded by Ersatz Yorck-class. Aim was to modify the P-class heavy cruisers design by fitting out with 3x2-38cm/15” instead of 28.3cm/11.1” calibre for the main armament. Displacement 29,364 (standard)-35,968 (full load) tons and as dimensiuons 248.2 (waterline)-256 (over all) x 30 x 8.02 metres or 814.4-839.111 x 98.5 x26.4 feet. Speed 35 knots. To be realized under the Plan Z. The project drawings were by 1940 complete and approved by Hitler and Raeder yet building finally cancelled. Ordered from the Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany on 8 August 1939 and contract refined in September 1939.
An item reported that an Axis convoy consisting of 8 merchant ships and protected by a strong escort were sighted 270 miles north east of Misurata, Italian Libya going to the south
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. MR0423. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 76 dated 24 February 1942
Antwerpen, Belgium 10 April 2026
Malta-flagged, homeport Valletta, IMO 9246683, MMSI 229635000 and call sign 9HA5542. Owner/manager CMA CGM, Marseille, France. Built by New Szczecin Shipyard, Szczecin, Poland in 2005. Germany-flagged 2005, Liberia-flagged 2005-2021.
Deed of chartering dated 14 February 1660 between former elderman Lieven van Coulster and Jan Pietersen Hedts master of the St. Pieter of 170 lasten to serve as Greenland whaler.
Source
Stadsarchief Rotterdam. Notary Vitus Mustelius Woutersz 18-511-69
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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?
Lenghth 360 feet. Wooden sheathing. Measured 6,169 tons. Bo. 19 2nd class sea-going monitor
Source
Website Royals Museums Greenwich Collection search. ID NPC 9217-9218
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Similar Kamogawa Maru (1938), Keiyo Maru (1937), Sinko Maru (1935), Tamagawa Maru (1938), Yamagiri Maru (1938), Yamazuki Maru (1937), Yodogawa Maru (1938) and Zenyo Maru (1937). Call sign JWPL. Owner in 1939 Toyo Kisen K.K., Tokyo, Japan. Laid down by Mitsubishi Jukoygo K.K., Yokohama, Japan on 14 April 1937, launched on 23 August 1937, completed on 15 November 1937, requistioned by navy on 12 August 1941, converted into an armed auxiliary aircraft transport between 12 August-21 October 1941, converted into a general transport by Yokosuka Navy Yard between 21 January-5 February 1944, damaged in an American air attack about 100 nautical miles West of Alamagan Island, Northern Marianas and beached on12 June 1944, next day destroyed in air air attack. Gross tonnage 6,442 tons, under deck 5,757 tons, net tonnage 4,835 tons and as dimensions 549.4 x 58.3 x 32.0 x 9.6 (light)-26 (loaded) feet. Horsepower 1,165nhp/4,700 bhp, one screw, 110rpm=14 knots, 1333rpm=17 knots, fuel oil bunker capacity including deep tanks 2,700 tons, range 47,000 nautical miles/14 knots and speed 14/15(normal cruising)-17-19 (maximum) knots.
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. Elbe. Loaded with circa 4,000 ton rubber. Left Dairen on 20 April 1941 and on 6 June 1941 bombed by 5 British aircraft on the Atlantic and sunk.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 7/223
Antwerpen, Belgium 10 April 2026
Madeira/Portugal-flagged, IMO 9254848, MMSI 255802360 and call sign CQOR. Built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Ulsan, South Korea in 2003. Panama-flagged 2003-2014, Korea-flagged 2014-200, Liberia-flagged 2020-2021 and Marshall Islands-flagged 2021-2023. Owner MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co., Geneva, Switzerland, manager MSC Shipmanagement Ltd., Limassol, Cyprus.
Deed of chartering dated 13 February 1660 between burgomaster of Maassluis Franchois Denick and Gerrit Maertsen, living at Medemblik, master of the ship De Twee Pellegroms of 150 lasten voor a whaling voyage to Greenland.
Source
Stadsarchief Rotterdam. Notary Vitus Mustelius Woutersz 18-511-67
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Similar Kikukawa Maru (1936), Kirikawa Maru (1937), Matukawa Maru/Matsukawa Maru (1938), Momokawa Maru (1939), Nippo Maru (1936), Toei Maru (1936) and Toho Maru (1937). Call sign JGPL. Owner Okazaki Honten K.K., Kobe. Launched by Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Kobe, Japan on 16 September 1936, taken into service on 9 November 1936, requistioned by the army as transport between 1938-1939, requisitioned by the navy in August 1941, registered as auxiliary tanker in September 1941 and sunk during the American attack on Truk on 17 February 1944. Gross tonnage 3,764 tons, under deck ? tons, net tonnage 2,252 and as dimensions 353.6 x 50 x 27.9 x 8’6” (light)-23” (loaded) feet. Steam turbine propulsion, horsepower 333 nhp, one screw, coal bunker capacity 1,000 tons and range 10,000 nautical miles/12 knots and speed 12-14 (normal cruising)-16 (maximum) knots.
Iron armoured. Length 345 feet. Horsepower 1,200 hp. No. 3 Design. First class monitor.
Source
Website Royals Museums Greenwich Collection search. ID NPC 1919-9220-9221
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by Kater, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Yard number 22. 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.
Bremerhaven, Germany 18 April 2026
Antigua&Barbuda-flagged, IMO 9623219, MMSI 305204000 and call sign V2RI9. Built by STX Offshore&Shipbuilding Johnae Shipyard, Jinhae, Soutj Korea in 2012. Marshall Islands-flagged 2012-2022, South Korea-flagged 2022-2026 and Germany and Antigua&Barbuda-flagged in 2026. As Sunrise/Sun Rise South Korea-flagged, homeport Jesu, MMSI 440032000, call sign D7GU an downer/manager Pan Ocean Co. Ltd., Seoul, South Korea.
Antwerpen, Belgium 10 April 2026
Madeira/Portugal-flagged, IMO 9702261, MMSI 255806499 and call sign CQEV8. Built by Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd., Dalian, China in 2015. Owner MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co., Geneva, Switzerland, manager MSC Shipmanagement Ltd., Limassol, Cyprus. Panama-flagged between 2015-2017.
An item dated Lahaina 21 August 1852 reported that when the American whaler Chas. Phelps master Birch arrived returning from the Sea of Okhotsk he mentioned that he had on 22 May heard from the whaler Massachusetts 5 whales
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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 Tokushima. Completed on 23 June 1945, handed over to the Japan Maritime Safety Agency and renamed mS 28 on 1 May 1948.
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 Citu of New York of the Inman Line.
Source
The Nautical Magazine. Fifty-first year. Volume VII. July 1882.
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 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.
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
List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships by German shipyards in July 1944. Type XXI. Yard Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany. Yard number Date building ordered 6 November 1943. Date completion 8 September 1944. Remarks due to air attack in end July was it impossible to predict new deadlines.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 147.
Liberia-flagged, homeport Monrovia, IMO 9231250, MMSI 636018240 and call sign A8JX9. Liberia-flagged 2002, Germany-flagged 2002-2003, Singapore-flagged 2003-2006, Liberia-flagged 2006, Germany-flagged 2006-2017, Liberia-flagged 2017 and Germany-flagged 2017-? Owner MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co., Geneva, Switzerland, manager MSC Shipmanagement Ltd., Limassol, Cyprus. Built by Samsung Shipbuilding&Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Geoje, South Korea in 2002.
An item dated Lahaina 21 August 1852 reported that when the American whaler Chas. Phelps master Birch arrived returning from the Sea of Okhotsk he mentioned that he had on 23 June heard from the whaler Jefferson, New London 14 whales
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Similar Daisin Maru (1919) and Miti Maru (1919). Call sign JCCM. Built by Lithgow’s Ltd., Port Glasgow, Scotland in 1919 and sunk after striking a mine off Susami, Japan on 12 July 1945. Gross tonnage 5,682 tons, netto tonnage 3,550 tons and as dimensions 400.3x 52.2 x 28.4 x 8 (light)-25’6” (loaded) feet. Reciprocating propulsion, single screw, horsepower 517 nhp, oil bunker capacity 820 tons, range 8,600 nautical miles/10 knots and speed 10 (normal cruising)-12 (maximum) knots. Carried petrolen in bulk 60,000 barrels.
Engaged by the British government for the new expedition to the Sudan. Gross tonnage 2,141 tons. Mule 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.
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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 Hayashikane. Completed on 2 March 1945, run aground on 30 May 1945 and afterwards broken up.
A list dealing dated 28 June 1918 reported the status of work on the submarines expected on 30 June. Work started on 24 June 1918. Planned completion on 18 July. Description of the work remaining work. Remarks none.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 3-11254.
Antwerpen, Belgium 10 April 2026
Singapore-flagged, IMO 9630420, MMSI 563287300 and call sign 9VDR5. Owner/manager Seaspan Ship Management Ltd., Vancouver BC, Canada. Built by Jiangsu New Yangzijang Shipbuilding, Jingjiang, China in 2015. Hong Kong-flagged 2015-2025, since then Singapore.
An item dated Lahaina 21 August 1852 reported that when the American whaler Chas. Phelps master Birch arrived returning from the Sea of Okhotsk he mentioned that he had on 1 June heard from American whaler Newbury Port 3 whales
Flower-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Castle-class preceded by Flower-class. Built for the British Royal Navy but handed over to the Royal Canadian Navy before completion. Laid down by Ferguson Brothers Ltd., Port Glasgow, Scotland on 3 Juen 1943, launched on 12 February 1944, transferred to Canada in 1943, commissioned on 29 June 1944, decommissioned on 8 March 1946, sold to become a merchant ship in 1946, taken into service by the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company in 1946, out of service on 1 June 1950, taken over by the Nationalist Chinese Navy in 1950, renamed Kao An in 1950 and Shuai Zhen in 1963.
