Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Netherlands-flagged, ENI 03370010, MMSI 244740651 and call sign PI3550. Type stevenaak. Sources op several websites supplying different details like built in 1876 at Roodevaart (rederij-vooruit.nl) or as the Daarom in 1882 at Kinderdijk, renamed Grevelingen rond 1914, after 1933 Vios II and later Victoria. Netherlands(www.binnenvaarttaal.nl).
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 Irthington.
Source
The Nautical Magazine. Fifty-first year. Volume VII. July 1882.
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Netherlands-flagged, homeport Amsterdam, Netherlands, ENI 02102373, MMSI 244615815 and call sign PE4347. Built by shipyard Van Duyvendijk, Lekkerkerk, Netherlands in 1892.
According to a list of the Italian Department for transport over sea and by rail was she lost on 17 May due to submarine attack on the location 9 miles of Verna (Spagna). Tonnage 230 tons.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 20/728.
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Casco built using a steel construction kit of Beachcraft, Arkel, Netherlands in 1981. Zeeschouw.
Transport Number N. Name ship Portland. Company Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg, Germany. Date departure 23 January 1943? Harbour which was left Bordeaux, France. Destination Far East. Deadweight 7,729 ton. Part of 2. Action “Pfastermundkoch”.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 7/1419 Ausarbeitung "Wirtschaftsfahrten im Zweiten Weltkrieg" (Zusammenstellung der Fahrten von Blockadebrechern nach Ostasien, 1941-1945).
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Poland-flagged, MMSI 261004731 and call sign SPG5652. Built in Ukraine in 1999. Bought in 2021, modernized then and relaunched in 2024.
Bookkeeper Leendert Kolleman, Jisp.
1700
Whales 6 Barrels blubber 270 Quardelen whale oil
1701
Whales 4 Barrels blubber 180 Quardelen whale oil
1702
Whales 5 Barrels blubber 180 Quardelen whale oil
1703
Whales 2 Barrels blubber 60 Quardelen whale oil
1705
Whales 11.5 Barrels blubber 360 Quardelen whale oil
1706
Whales 0 Barrels blubber 0 Quardelen whale oil
1707
Whales 0 Barrels blubber 0 Quardelen whale oil
Source
Alphabetische naam-lyst van alle de Groenlandsche en Straat-Davidsche Commandeurs die sedert het jaar 1700 op Groenland en sedert het jaar 1719 op de Straat Davis etc. Gerret van Sant. Published by Johannes Enschede, Amsterdam 1770, with hand written notes until 1794.
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Belgium--flagged, homeport Antwerp, Belgium, MMISI 205256900, call sign OS2569 and B407862. Sloop rigged.
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 28, present position Balaklava, remarks waiting or orders, regimental baggage on board.
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 1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II.
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Netherlands-flagged, homeport Delfzijl, Netherlands. Built between 1997-2004 under a work-experience project as a historically accurate replica of a wooden replica of a cutter wrecked during a heavy storm north of Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands.
Antarctic sealing ground African coast. Of Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA. Rigging schooner. Caught in 1828 or 1829 1,500 seal-skins. Condemned at Rio Janeiro, Brazil on 31 March 1829 or 1830.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887. (1978).
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Germany-flagged, MMSI 211238300 and call sign DLAY. Built by Bremer Bootsbau Vegesack (BBV) Shipyard, Bremen, Germany in 1995. Schooner rigged. Schooneryacht.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by Dutch shipyards, yet not divided. Date building ordered 4 December 1943. Date completion unknown but estimated 5 Kriegsfischkutters monthly.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Former British Light vessel number 8, later converted into the discotheek Barocca , berthed between 1991-2000 in the Wijnhaven, Rotterdam and then laid up at Moerdijk, Netherlands and later in the Waalhaven, Rotterdam. Towed in June 2005 to Harlingen where she was modernized and converted into a floating radio station. Ordered by TRinity House, London, England in November 1946, launched by Philip&Son, Dartmouth, England with yard number 1171 on 15 October 1948, Kentish Knock station 1949-1953, Sunk station 1956-1959, Dudgeon Station 1959-1962, Outer Gabbard Station 1962-1965, Tongue station 1965-1975, sold and became discotheek Barocca in Rotterdam and renamed Jenni Bayton on 22 July 2006.
Of the Companhia Geral do Comercio do Estado do Brasil, mentioned between 1649-1651, 300 tons, 24 guns.
Source
A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.
Project 661Anchaer/NATO: Papa-class©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Project 949A Antey called by the NATO Oscar II preceded by the Papa- and Charlie-classes and succeeded by the Yasen-class. Totally were 20 submarines of Project 949-949A planned of which six were cancelled (four were even never laid down). A fourth-generation follow-on was planned but never realized. In 2011 was a modernisation announced under Project 949AM to be realized by the Rubin Design Bureau cooperating with the Zvedocja and Zvezda shipyards. Designed for attacking NATO carrier battle groups with her 24 P-700 Granit (the SS-N-19 Shipwreck) cruise missiles. During the modernization was replacement of the Granit cruise missiles planned by 72 3M-54 Kalibr or P-800 Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles. Laid down at Sevmash on 9 February 1988, launched on 28 June 1991, commissioned on 18 August 1992, fate since 2016 unknown, part of the Pacific Fleet.
Sources
Breemer, Jan. Soviet submarines. Design, Development and Tactics, 1989
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.
Oscar-class submarines dated 11 April 2026 15:53 o’clock
Russian ships info dated 12 April 2026 19:46 o’clock.
E.I.C.-chamber Zealand, on stocks by Cornelis Speldernieuw sr at E.I.C-yard at Middelburg, Netherlands 1660, launched on 1 July 1771, dimensions 170 x 38 x 13, height orlopdeck 5¼ feet.
Sources
Kort gevat Jaarboek van de Edele Geoctroyeerde oost-indische compagnie der vereenigde Nederlanden ter kamer van Zeeland. Middelburg, 1759.
Archive V.O.C. 1602-1811 inv.no. 11048. Kort gevat Jaarboek van de Edele Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie tec. Christiaan Sigismund Matthaeus, Jan Dane, Middelburg, 1759.
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Part of Unryu-class (project number G16) Ikoma-subclass preceded by Taiho succeeded by planned but not realized Project Number G18. Design resembles more the Hiryu than that of the Taiho. There were 16 planned namely under the Maru Kyu Programme ship No. 301 in 1941 and under the Kai-Maru 5 Programme Ships No. 5001-5015, at the end were 13 were cancelled. There were 2 subclasses namely Unryu (Nos. 302, Modified Unryu Class 5001-5006 and Ikoma (unofficial Modified Ship Number 302-class in fact a simplified Unryu model Nos. 5007-5015). Cancelled on 11 August 1943, to be laid down by October 1944 and by September 1947 and to be completed .
De Ruyter. Drawing by L. Müller, Onze Vloot April 1936
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In their meeting discussed the British Chiefs of Staff Committee a report dated 17th January 1942 of the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committe dealing with the possible attack by Japanese forces on the Dutch East Indies. Together with the United Kingdom, Australia and the USA were the Netherlands united in the ABDA Command.
According to that report:
“There are ample shipping facilities avaialbe for transporting the necessary forces for an attack on Southern Sumatra and Java. The naval escort required for such a force would have to be on a considerable scala as some Allied light forces are already based on the Netherlands East Indies and Singapore. Provision will also have to be made for minesweeping, and the maintenance required for the naval forces will be considerable if they encounter resolute resistance. As the battle area moves south Dutch submarines will doubtless be concentrated in the Java Seas and may be reinforced by American submarines.”
For an attack on Southern Sumatra and Java was estimated that a Japanese naval foces was needed consisting of “10 cruiser; 3-4 aircraft carriers, 30-40 destroyers; and necessary attendant small craft. These forces are now available in the area”.
“An attack on Java and Sumatra is likely to be supported, at any rate in the initial stages, by three or four aircraft carriers which would enable some 150 to 200 ship-borne aircraft to be operated.”
The Royal Netherlands Navy possessed at that moment over 3 light cruisers Hr.Ms. De Ruyter, Java and Tromp and further more destroyers, submarines and smaller vessels. Australian, American and British warships were added to the Allied naval force. An Allied Squadron commanded by the Dutch rear admiral Karel Doorman was destroyed in the Battle of the Java Sea and the next two days by Japanese forces. The Tromp heavily damaged in the Battle of Badung Strait already escaped to Australia but the Dutch cruisers Hr.Ms. Java and De Ruyter, the British HMS Exeter, American USS Houston and Australian HMAS Perth and a bunch of destroyers all sunk. The Dutch East Indies Army surrendered on 8 March 1942 announced the next day.
Source
The National Archives. CAB 79-17-20. War Cabinet. Chiefs of Staff Committee. Minutes of meeting held on Monday 19 January 1942 10:30 a.m.
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Replica built by by Johan Prins, Workum, Netherlands in 2009 of the ferry Ebelina or Dorp Grouw dating from 1861. Ferry between Earrewald-Grou, province Friesland, Netherlands. Type skutsje.
According to a list of the Italian Department for transport over sea and by rail was she lost on 14 May due to unknown on the location near Riporto. Tonnage 180 tons.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 20/728.
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Similar Hokuyo Maru (1936) and Hokusyo Maru (1936). Call sign JDYG. Owner in 1939 Kita Kisen K.K., Tokyo, Japan. Laid down by Uraga Dock Co. Ltd., Uraga, Japan on 16 October 1936, launched on 9 February 1937, completed on 19 June 1937, requisitioned by the navy on 19 April 1941 as general transport, converted into an auxiliary transport registered on 15 October 1941, conversion between 21 October-1 December 1941, torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Narwhal (SS-167) off Nauru Island on 11 September 1943 and stricken on 1 November 1943. Gross tonnage 4,211 tons, under deck 3,550 tons, net tonnage 2,510 tons and as dimensions 359.3 x 49.1 x 28.9 x 12 (light)-16 (loaded) feet. Reciprocating propulsion, single screw, horsepower 350 nhp, coal bunker capacity 470 tons, range 6,000 nautical miles/13 knots and speed 13 (normal cruising)-16 (maximum) knots.
Transport Number M. Name ship Corteliazzo. Company Lloyd Triestino/Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg, Germany. Date departure 23 November 1942. Harbour which was left Bordeaux, France. Destination Far East. Lost on 1 December 1942. Part of 2. Action “Pfastermundkoch”.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 7/1419 Ausarbeitung "Wirtschaftsfahrten im Zweiten Weltkrieg" (Zusammenstellung der Fahrten von Blockadebrechern nach Ostasien, 1941-1945).
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Built by U. Zwolsman, Workum, Netherlands in 1898. WR=Wieringen.
Bookkeeper Cornelis Muusz Blauw, Uytgeest
1702
Whales 6 Barrels blubber 160 Quardelen whale oil
1703
Whales 6 Barrels blubber 250 Quardelen whale oil
1704
Whales 3 2/3 Barrels blubber 126 Quardelen whale oil
1705
Whales 9 Barrels blubber 340 Quardelen whale oil
1706
Whales 0 Barrels blubber 0 Quardelen whale oil
Source
Alphabetische naam-lyst van alle de Groenlandsche en Straat-Davidsche Commandeurs die sedert het jaar 1700 op Groenland en sedert het jaar 1719 op de Straat Davis etc. Gerret van Sant. Published by Johannes Enschede, Amsterdam 1770, with hand written notes until 1794.
Entre Rios, Corrientes-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of La Plata-class preceded by Corrientes-class. Laid down in 1910, launched in January 1911, commissioned in March 1912, summer 1912 departed to Argentina and stricken on 10 January 1956. Argentina ordered 12 destroyers in 1910, 2 at Krupp and 2 at Schichau, Germany, 4 in England and 4 in France. The British built destroyers were in 1912 sold to Greece (Aetos-class) and the French built destroyers were taken over the French navy (Aventurier-class) when the First World War broke out.
Dimensions 85 (between perpendiculars)-90 (over all) x 9 (moulded) x 4,7 (depth sides)-5 (depth at centre) x 2,4 (draught forward normal)-2,3 (draught mean normal)-2,2 (draught aft normal), normal displacement 890 tons. Speed on trials 32 knots. Load on trials 200 tons. Draught full load 1,95 (foreward)-2.85 (mean)-2,75 (aft) metres, full load dispacement 1,110 tons. Two Germany Admiralty type turbines (centre) of 560 rpm and 5 German Admiralty Type boilers (1-oil, 4 coal fuelled). Total capacity of bunkers 290 tons+50 tons fuel oil bunker capacity. Estimated horsepower 19,000-20,000 hp. Range 3,000 miles of 1,852,3 metres/15 knots. Crew numbers 110 men. Four 21” Whitehead torpedo tubes and 150 kilo explosives with a speed of 41 knots at a range of 2,000 metres and 29 knots at 5,000 metres. Placed two fore end of ship and two little aft the middle part of the ship. Carried 8 torpedoes. Length forecastle 18 metres at 2.20 above the main deck. Armament 4-4” cal 50 Bethlehem guns, all on the centre line of the ship. Magazines have a capacity of 250 rounds of ammunition. Provided with wireless telegraphy for 200 kilometres range.
Source
Hiraga-archive. Description General data of Argentine destroyers built by F. Schichau.
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 27, present position Balaklava, 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.
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Ex-YE 170, YE6, UK112 and finally WR18. Used for the transport of ale. Built by T. Schepman, Kampen, Netherlands in 1907.
Antarctic sealing ground southern oceans. Rigging brig. Returned home at Stonington in 1829 with 3,000 fur-seal and 15,000 hair-seal skins.
Source
Goode, George Brown. The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. Volume II, Washington, 1887. (1978).
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Built in 2021. Especially for education dealing with the plastic soup.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by Dutch shipyards, yet not divided. Date building ordered 4 December 1943. Date completion unknown but estimated 5 Kriegsfischkutters monthly.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Netherlands-flagged, MMSI 244190731 and call sign PH3308? Built by Gebr. De Boer, Lemmer, Netherlands with yard number 31 as a so-called Lemsteraak in 1912-1934 for account of W.H. Kalis, Dordrecht, Netherlands. Launched as the Helena on 22 June 1913. Restored since 1986.
Mentioned in 1660, 24 guns.
Source
A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.
Harlingen, Netherlands 5 July 2026
Type Aek which was in North east Friesland a 2-mast schokker with straight bow.The WL 19 was built in 1871 by Scheepswerf Alkema, Makkum, Netherlands and lost in the disaster of 5 March 1883 in which 17 Dutch fishing vessels were lost and 83 fishermen drowned. So this vessel is an exact copy of the original completed in 2008.
E.I.C.-chamber Zealand, on stocks by Cornelis Speldernieuw sr at E.I.C-yard at Middelburg, Netherlands 1660, launched on 29 March 1661, dimensions 118 x 26 x 12 feet.
Sources
Kort gevat Jaarboek van de Edele Geoctroyeerde oost-indische compagnie der vereenigde Nederlanden ter kamer van Zeeland. Middelburg, 1759.
Archive V.O.C. 1602-1811 inv.no. 11048. Kort gevat Jaarboek van de Edele Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie tec. Christiaan Sigismund Matthaeus, Jan Dane, Middelburg, 1759.
Active-class scout cruisers. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Bristol light cruiser. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Hawkins-class heavy cruisers. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Town-class Bristol-sub class light cruiser preceded by Topaze- and Active-classes and succeeded by Hawkins- and Arethusa (1913)-classes. Ordered under the 1908-1909 Programme. Laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding, Govan, Scotland on 25 March 1909, launched on 30 September 1909, commissioned on 19 September 1910 and sold to be broken up on 20 April 1927.
USS Houston©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound (1) acting as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff suggested the Committee that regarded the remarks of the Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet (2) to ask the United States to reinforce the ABDA area especially with 20.32cm/8” or large15.24cm/ 6” cruisers. The contents of the telegrams to be sent to the Chiefs of Staff in Washington D.C., USA and to general Wavell (4) were approved.
Notes
1. Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound (29 August 1877 Ventnor, Isle of Wight-21 October 1943 London, England), served between 1891-1943 in the Royal Navy. First Sea Lord 12 June 1939-15 October 1943. Between October 1940-March 1942 he was chairman of the Chiefs of Staff.
2. Sir Geoffrey Layton (20 April 1884 Liverpool, England-4 September 1962 Portsmouth, England), served between 1899-1947 in the Royal Navy. Commanded the China Station until 10 December 1941 but when was recalled as Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet when HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk on the same day. March 1942 appointed in March 1942 as Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon and replaced by Sir James Somerville (17 July 1882 Weybridge, Surrey, England-19 March 1949 Dinder House, Somerset, England).
3. The American Asiatic Fleet was on 28 February 1941 renamed U.S. Asiatic Fleet, since 25 July 1939 commanded by admiral Thomas Charles Hart (12 June 1877 Davison, Michigan, USA-4 July 1971 Sharon, Connecticut, USA) who became on 15 January 1942 Commander ABDA Afloat. It consisted of destroyers, heavy cruiser USS Houston and Omaha-class light cruiser Marblehead and submarines.
4. Field marshal Archibald Percival Wavell (5 May 1883 Colchester, England-24 May 1950 Westminster, London, England). Appointed to Commander-in-Chief of ABDACOM (=American-British-Dutch-Australian Command) on 1 January 1942. The command was formed on 15 January.
Source
The National Archives. CAB 79-17-20. War Cabinet. Chiefs of Staff Committee. Minutes of meeting held on Monday 19 January 1942 10:30 a.m.
Somers-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Benham-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Sims-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Bagley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Benham-class (sometimes called as Ellet-class) preceded by Somers-class succeeded by Sims-class. Gibbs&Cox-design. Built between 1936-1939 were 10 vessels built with a limited 1,500 tons standard displacement according to the London Naval Treaty. With similar characteristiscs as the Gridley- and Bagley-classes. Hull number DD-405. Laid down by Norfolk Navy Yard on 25 June 1937, launched on 5 May 1938, commissioned on 23 September 1939 and torpedoed and sunk by a German S-boat on 11 September 1943 while underway from Paestum, Greece to Oran, French Algeria.
