Panama-flagged, IMO 9485899, MMSI 352002530 and call sign 3E3890. Liberia-flagged, homeport Monrovia, MMSI 636015197 and call sign A8ZE9 between 2011-2023. As AS Elenia owner/manager Ahrenkiel Consulting Services, Bern, Switzerland. Built by SPP Shipbuilding Tongyoung Shipyard, Tongyoung, South Korea in 2011
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 16 November 1767 1/32 part in the Dutch fluytship Europa and whaling tools of commandeur Cornelis Smit, built in 1750, dimensions 113 1/4 x 30.5 x 13.5, bookkeepers J. en C. van Tuerling, 400 guilders, stroke 41 guilders, A. Rynders
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 16 November 1767 1/32 part in the Dutch fluytship Maria en Catharina and whaling tools of commandeur Jan Quak, built in 1734, dimensions 109 3/4 x 27.8 x 12.6, bookkeeper K. Kruyer, 275 guilders, stroke 8 guilders, Klaas Kruyer
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
Askold. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Bogatyr-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of the Bogatyr-class cruiser of which were 5 planned but 4 completed preceded by Askold succeeded by Novik. Laid down by Admiralty Wharf, Nikolayev, Russia [nowadays Ukraine] on 23 August 1901, launched on 20 May 1902, commissioned in 1905, crew choose the side of the Ukrainian People’s Republic on 12 November 1917, after the Red Army occupied the republic laid up without guns on 28 March 1918, captured by Germany and used as barracks on 1 May 1918, renamed Hetman Ivan Mazepa and handed over to Ukraine on 17 September 1918, in hands of the Soviet Union in 1920, renamed Komintern on 31 December 1922, commissioned in June 1923, decommissioned on 17 July 1942 and sunk as a breakwater in late 1942.
According to a list of the Italian Department for transport over sea and by rail was she lost on 3 April due to torpedo of a submarine on the location near island Levanzo Tonnage 107 tons.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 20/728.
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 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
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 Rhosina.
Source
The Nautical Magazine. Fifty-first year. Volume VII. July 1882.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built at Varna, Bulgaria. Date building ordered 24 June 1943. Date completion unknown due to transport and labour problems allowing a future maximum completion of 1-2 Kriegsfischkutters possible.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
The information was received from the Latvian General Staff and considered to be reliable. In fact few was known dealing with the personnel of the Central Institutions except that the majority in authority were former naval officers already officers prior to the First World War. The descriptions of the officers were supplied by a former high officer of the Imperial Russian Navy which now stayed in Latvia. Sailor. “Chief of the Registry and Completion Section (April 1921); Communist; was formerly motor driver of the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolajevitch.
Source
National Archive. Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs Series: Security Classified Correspondence and Reports. File Unit. Russia: Navy - MID 2503-16 THRU 2503-265. Roll 1443.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 22 May 2026
Portugal/Madeira-flagged, IMO 1068035, MMSI 255915914 and call sign CQ2372. Built by Partner Stocznia, Poland-Thecla Bodewes Shipyards, Kampen, Netherlands in 2025. Owner Navinorte, SAU, Gijón, Spain.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 16 November 1767 1/32 part in the Dutch fluytship Maria en Catharina and whaling tools of commandeur Jan Quak, built in 1734, dimensions 109 3/4 x 27.8 x 12.6, bookkeeper K. Kruyer, 250 guilders, stroke 5 guilders, Klaas Kruyer
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 16 November 1767 1/32 part in the Dutch fluytship de Vrouw Hendrina and whaling tools of commandeur Jacob Gerritse Adriaan, built in 1736, dimensions 113 x 29 x 12.9 feet, bookkeeper G.H. van Herwerden, 250 guilders, stroke 30 guilders, V. de Vries
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
Alexandre Mikhailovitch, La Marine Russe, 1892. Paintings by lieutenant V. Ignatius
Laid down by Baltic Shipyard, St. Petersburg on 20 May 1888, launched on 19/31 May 1890, commissioned in March 1891, laid up in 1920, converted into a floating submarine base in early 1930s, rebuilt between 1936-1937, re-engined 1936, in 1958-1959 and flowing years still mentioned as mother submarine ship in the Baltic, became target for testing anti-ship missiles and sunk in the Gulf of Riga during a test in November 1961 according to website Tsarnicholas; Jane’s Fightings Ships 1963-1964 suggested that she could have been broken up.
Characteristics in 1892: dimensions 315.5 x 46 x 17.5 feet, displacement 3,640 tonnes, horsepower 6,000 hp, speed 19 knots and armed with 6 small guns. In 1958-9 6,000 tons displacement andas dimensions 349x46 x 17.5 feet. Armed with 3-3” guns, 3-4.5cm anti aircraft guns and 2 machine guns.
Sources
Jane’s Fighting Ships 1958-1959 until 1963-1964
American USS Maine©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
In 1886 was the building of a battleship which became the USS Texas and an armored cruiser which became the USS Maine authorized.(1) The US Navy asked for plans including from parties abroad. For the USS Maine was chosen for an American design although inspired by a Brazilian warship.
The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal edition dated 11 April 1887 p. 144 wrote that the Secretary of Navy William C. Whitney on 6 April invited proposals for the building of 5 warships under the Act of 38 March 1887. Further more he considered the details for the Board which was responsible to examine the plans for the two 6,000 tons ships authorized under the Act of 3 August 1886. Expected was that as naval members were to be appointed captain Ramsay, commodore Goodrich and assistant naval constructor Bowles. The names of the civilian members were yet not known. In the meantime were the plans of the Bureau of Construction and Repair his favourite. Of the ten plans for new cruisers were at least six worth of close attention. According to The Nation dated Thursday 7 April 1887 were the plans opened on 1 April.
The Railroad and Engineering Journal, May edition p. 194 reported that the plans for an armored cruiser and an armored battleship were now being studied by a mixed board of naval officers and civilian constructors. The general features were published on page 211: “The armored cruiserwas to have a double-bottomedSteel hull, unsheathed and divided into numerous watertight compartments, fitted with a powerful pumping apparatus, and finished with a perfect drainage and ventilation system throughout. She was to be fitted with a rambow and was to have a steel-armored deck which would run thewhole length of the ship and cover the boilers, engines and magazines. Two-thirds full sail power was required on two or three masts, each with a protected top, carrying one or more machine or rapid-fireguns. The main batterywas to havefour 10-in. guns, each weighing 26½tons, and six 6-in.guns each weighing 5 tons. The secondary battery was to be composed of four 6-pounder, four3-pounder, and two 1-pounder Hotchkiss rapid-fire guns, four 47-millimeters and four 37-millimeters Hotchkiss revolving cannon, and four Gatling guns. The vessel was to be equipped with a torpedo and searchlight outfit, and the guns were to be so arranged as to obtain for bow and stern fire the greates thorizontal and vertical command consistent with other essential conditions. The 10-in. guns were to load in at least two positions,and were to be served and handled by power and protected by at least 10 1/2 inch of steel armor, properly backged, while the 6-in. guns were to be efficiently shielded. The motive machinery was to be below the armored deck and well covered from hostile fire, and the ship was to be driven by twin screws. When fullyequipped and with all weights on board, excluding the reserve coal, she was to maintain 17 knots speed per hour over the measured mile. The coal endurance had to be large, the consump tion economical, and the distance to be covered at mod erate speed as great as practicable. The furnaces were to be arranged to work with forced draught when desired, air for combustion being furnished independently of the ventilating system. Quarters had to be provided for 270 officers and men, with provisions provisi for three months and water for one month. The ship was required to have arrangements for being steered either by power or by hand from several independent positions upon and below the deck. A sufficient number of boats to carry the crew were to be furnished, two of them being second class torpedo boats and two others steam launches or cutters, each of which was able to mount, shielded, one 3 pounder rapid-fire gun. These conditions were to be fulfilled at a maximum draught of 22 feet and on a displacement of about 6,000 tons."
The Railroad and Engineering Journal, July edition p. 311 and 315 reported that the US Navy still considered the building but did not invite yet for bids of shipyards. In the meantime reported the Board to the Secretary of the Navy what the results were of the plans sent by various parties in last April. The Board was appointed on 22 April. Some plans were not conform the requirements and were already rejected. Dealing with the plans of the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, Lieutenant W. I. Chambers. A. H. Grandjean and the Thames Iron Works & Shipbuilding Company was the conclusion that “The marked differences in the essential features of the designs prevent their classification in the order of merit; each exhibits features which strongly commend themselves, but the Board does not consider it advisable for the Government to build a vessel upon any one of these.”
In The Railroad and Engineering Journal, August edition p. 357-359 were the results of the examination discussed. The Board recommended not one of the submitted designs for an armored cruiser. The plans were to be carefully examined before anything could be decided. Yet it was probably the design of the Bureau of Construction of the Navy Department made a good chance to be chosen.
Captain M. T. (N.S. or M.S.?) Clayton. Auckland, New Zealand, design rejected . According to The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal dated 11 April were “the plans just rough tracings representing some special ideas of the designer, who is Lloyds’s surveyor at Auckland.” The The Railroad and Engineering Journal May edition p. 211 wrote that Clayston sent “a drawing, intended to embody some new ideas. This was, however a rough draft only and incomplete.”
Note
1. Ordered on 3 August 1886, laid down by New York Naval Shipyard on 17 October 1888, launched on 18 November 1890, commissioned on 17 September 1895 and sunk due to an explosion in the harbour of Havana, Cuba on 15 February 1898 and what was left of her was scuttled in the Strait of Florida on 16 March 1912.
Sources
Engineering. An Illustrated Weekly Journal. London, 1885.
Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal. Volume XXXIII, January-December 1887.
The Nation No. 113, p. 286.
The Railroad and Engineering Journal, vol. LXI (Volume 1, new series), New York, 1887.
Hamersly, Lewis Randolph. The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Philadelphia, 1894.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 22 May 2026
Malta-flagged, homeport Valletta, IMO 9934137, MMSI 229472000 and call sign 9HA5507. Built ny Hyundai Vietnam Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Ninh Phuoc, Vietnam in 2022. Owner Nightsong Maritime ltd., manager Thenamaris Ships Management Inc., both at Athens, Greece.
An item reported that at Laihana, Hawaii on 28 February was cleared the American whaler Emerald master Jagger for cruising
An item reported that at Laihana, Hawaii on 3 March was cleared the American whaler Hunter master Holt for cruising
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 22 May 2026
Finland-flagged, homeport Hlesinki, IMO 9856842, MMSI 230697000 and call sign OJTP. Built by China Merchants Jinling Shipyard, Jiangsu, China in 2022. Owner/manager Finnlines Pic, Helsinki, Finland.
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 Nerissa.
Source
The Nautical Magazine. Fifty-first year. Volume VII. July 1882.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built at Varna, Bulgaria. Date building ordered 24 June 1943. Date completion unknown due to transport and labour problems allowing a future maximum completion of 1-2 Kriegsfischkutters possible.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 18 May 2025
Marshall Islands-flagged, homeport Majuro, IMO 9733337, MMSI 538006839 and call sign V7RW8. Owner BW Constellation Li Pte Ltd, manager BW LPG Ltd, both Singapore. Built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Gunsan, South Korea in 2016.
According to a list of the Italian Department for transport over sea and by rail was she lost on 3 April due to submarine on the location 10 miles east of Cap Fevato. Tonnage 260 tons.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 20/728.
The information was received from the Latvian General Staff and considered to be reliable. In fact few was known dealing with the personnel of the Central Institutions except that the majority in authority were former naval officers already officers prior to the First World War. The descriptions of the officers were supplied by a former high officer of the Imperial Russian Navy which now stayed in Latvia. Former general of the General Staff. “Chief of the Land Operative Section (April 1921).”
Source
National Archive. Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs Series: Security Classified Correspondence and Reports. File Unit. Russia: Navy - MID 2503-16 THRU 2503-265. Roll 1443.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 17 May 2026
Norway-flagged, homeport Oslo, IMO 7931454, MMSI 259733000 and call sign LAET7. Built by Imabari Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Marugame, Japan in 1981. Owner Seaway Eagle AS, Oslo, manager OHT Technical Management Ltd., Paisley, Scotland. Malta-flagged 1994-2005, Bahamas-flagged 2005-2008, since then Norway-flagged.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 26 October 1767 the Dutch extra ordinary sailing fluytship de Juffrouw Anna Maria commandeur Pieter Bandix Junopr, built in 1739, dimensions 116 x 28.9 x 12.7 Amsterdam feet, 5,000 guilders, stroke 50 guilders, P. Engelen
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
Alexandre Mikhailovitch, La Marine Russe, 1892. Paintings by lieutenant V. Ignatius
Laid down by Galerniy Island Shipyard, St. Petersburg, Russia on 23 July 1870, launched on 17 August 1872, commissioned on 14 October 1876, training ship since 1908, depot ship since 1917, decommissioned on 21 May 1921, hulked and renamed Blokshiv Nr. 1 on 4 December 1923, renamed Blokshiv Nr. 4 on 1 January 1932, renamed BSh-3 on 16 May 1949, stricken on 18 April 1959 and broken up. She was designed after a visit of the American monitor USS Miantonomoh at Kronstadt in August 1866 which stimulated rear admiraal Andrei Alexandrovich Popov (21 September 1821-6 March 1898) to design a breastwork monitor between 1867-1869. He is known for his circular ironclads the so-called Popovka’s.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 9 November 1767 extraordinary whaling tools of the commandeur Rokus Verschoor, 3,400 guilders, stroke 75 guilders, Arnold Hooghart.
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam,
Alexandre Mikhailovitch, La Marine Russe, 1892. Paintings by lieutenant V. Ignatius
Called in the publication Prince Pojarski. Preceded by Pervenets-class. Laid down by Charles Mitchell Shipyard, St. Petersburg, Russia on 30 November 1864, launched on 12 September 1867, completed in 1870, hulked and renamed Blokshiv Nr. 1 on 27 October 1909, stricken on 14 April 1911 and broken up.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 9 November 1767 extraordinary whaling tools of the commandeur Nanning Jansz, 3,600 guilders, stroke 400 guilders, Herman Barends&Zoon.
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
Part of Chien Chung-class consisting of Chien Chung or Kiang-Tchong, Yung An or Yong Ngan and Kung Chen or Kong-Tchen. Built by Yangtse Works, Habkow, China in 1915, paid off in 1931. German type. Dimensions 33,5 x 5,5 x 0,90 metres and a displacement of 90 tons. Speed 11 knots. Crew numbered 42 men. Armament consisted of 1-8,5cm howitzer and 3-4 machine guns.
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. Mosel. Not loaded. Left Bangkok, Thailand on 8 August 1941. Arrived at Yokohama, Japan on 22 September 1941. Steamed via Saigon, French Indochina and Takao.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 7/223
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Call sign JDWD. Laid down by Built by Mitshuibishi Dockyard&Engineering Works, Nagasaki on 21 October 1902, launched on 19 December 1903, completed on 22 Februyary 1904, chartered by the armvy as troop transport in 1904, requisitioned by the army as troop transport Allotted IJA No. 112, returned to owners on 12 January 1938, again in army service 3 June 1938-12 December 1938,between 21 July 1941-25 August 1941, between 3 October 1941-27 July 1942, requistioned by the navy as cargo ship on 1 November 1943, torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Grayback (SS-208) off Ojika Island on 27 February 1944 and officially returned to her owners on 30 April 1944. Owner in 1939 Kinkai Yusen K.K. Homeport Tokyo, Japan. Gross tonnage 4,905 tons, under deck 4,065 tons, net 2,996 tonnage, deadweight 6,440 tons and as dimensions 385.0 x 48.6 x 37.0 x 9’6” (light)-24 (loaded) feet. Single screw, reciprocating propulsion, horsepower 442 nhp, coal bunker capacity 1,940 ton, range 16,000 nautical miles/9.5 knots and 9.5 speed (normal cruising)- (maximum) 10.5 knots.
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. Leaving Marseille, France on 17 April with provisons and material. Maison Caillot et St. Pierre.
Source
Captain Pasfield Oliver, “The Madagascar expedition”: The United Service Magazine, volume XI. New Series. April 1895 to September 1895, p. 136-137.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built at Varna, Bulgaria. Date building ordered 24 June 1943. Date completion unknown due to transport and labour problems allowing a future maximum completion of 1-2 Kriegsfischkutters possible.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
The information was received from the Latvian General Staff and considered to be reliable. In fact few was known dealing with the personnel of the Central Institutions except that the majority in authority were former naval officers already officers prior to the First World War. The descriptions of the officers were supplied by a former high officer of the Imperial Russian Navy which now stayed in Latvia. “Former ensign of the Technical Department. Chief of the Naval Operative Section (April 1921).
Source
National Archive. Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs Series: Security Classified Correspondence and Reports. File Unit. Russia: Navy - MID 2503-16 THRU 2503-265. Roll 1443.
HMS Cossack, Tribal-class©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Tribal- or F-class preceded by River- of E-class and succeeded by Beagle- or G-class. First Sea Lord Fisher asked for a 33 knots destroyer in November 1904 and to be fitted out with oil-fuelled boilers and steam turbines. While the design details were left to the individual shipyards as common at the time the were quite what difference in details and appearance especially dealing with the number of funnels. HMS Cossack and Ghurka had three funnels but their sistership HMS Viking even six. The class had also two masts of which a light mainmast aft. Totally 12 completed. Built under the 1905-1906 Programme. Laid down by J.J. Thornycroft, Woolston, England on 13 November 1905, launched on, 25 June 1907, commissioned on 9 April 1908and sold to be scrapped on 9 May 1921.
According to a list of the Italian Department for transport over sea and by rail was she lost on 3 April due to submarine on the location 12 miles pf Cap Bellarista. Tonnage 206 tons.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 20/728.
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Part of Unryu-class (project number G16) Unryu-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). Laid down by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Japan on 14 April 1943, launched on 19 October 1944, building stopped when 84% complete on 1 April 1945 to be completed by June 1945 and broken up between 1 September 1946 and 31 December 1947.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 9 November 1767 1/32 part in the Dutch frigate ship de Margaretha en Petronella and the whaling tools of commandeur Volkert 225 guilders, stroke 14 guilders, N.A. van Hoorn
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 9 November 1767 1/32 part in the Dutch frigate ship de Margaretha en Petronella and the whaling tools of commandeur Volkert Claasz, dimensions 100 x 25.9, 6-7 boats, bookkeeper Nicolaas Anthony van Hoorn, 150 guilders, stroke 60 guilders, N.A. van Hoorn
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
The Marine Engineer dated 1 July 1895 p. 143
The shipyard of Messrs. Marty&D’Abbadie on the Cua Cam built for the French government a light draugh stern wheel gunboat for service on the Mekong river. The name was not supplied in the article, on the bow is Haiphong visible. She was was entirely contructed and assembed at Haiphong, disassembled and transported in parts (weight of heaviest part was 5 cwts) from Saigon up the Meking river and reassembled on the Island of Khone. Dimensions 25 x 4 x 1 (hold) x 0,45 (draught) metres. At the moment was sister ship for the Yenbay under construction. The London and China Telegraph dated 7 June 1895 reports a launching on 29 April of their yard at Cua-Cam, Haiphong, Tonkin of the Yenbay spexial constructed for theri subsidized line on the Red River between Hanoi and Laokay on the frontier of Yunnan, French Indochina. She was the 7th stern wheeler built in the Ateliers des Correspondances Fluviales at Haiphong, dimensions 115 (over all) x 20.6-23 (outside guard) x 4.6 (depth) feet and draught 22”. Boiler of the Admiralty gunboat type fuelled by firewood.
American USS Maine©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
In 1886 was the building of a battleship which became the USS Texas and an armored cruiser which became the USS Maine authorized.(1) The US Navy asked for plans including from parties abroad. For the USS Maine was chosen for an American design although inspired by a Brazilian warship.
The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal edition dated 11 April 1887 p. 144 wrote that the Secretary of Navy William C. Whitney on 6 April invited proposals for the building of 5 warships under the Act of 38 March 1887. Further more he considered the details for the Board which was responsible to examine the plans for the two 6,000 tons ships authorized under the Act of 3 August 1886. Expected was that as naval members were to be appointed captain Ramsay, commodore Goodrich and assistant naval constructor Bowles. The names of the civilian members were yet not known. In the meantime were the plans of the Bureau of Construction and Repair his favourite. Of the ten plans for new cruisers were at least six worth of close attention. According to The Nation dated Thursday 7 April 1887 were the plans opened on 1 April.
The Railroad and Engineering Journal, May edition p. 194 reported that the plans for an armored cruiser and an armored battleship were now being studied by a mixed board of naval officers and civilian constructors. The general features were published on page 211: “The armored cruiserwas to have a double-bottomedSteel hull, unsheathed and divided into numerous watertight compartments, fitted with a powerful pumping apparatus, and finished with a perfect drainage and ventilation system throughout. She was to be fitted with a rambow and was to have a steel-armored deck which would run thewhole length of the ship and cover the boilers, engines and magazines. Two-thirds full sail power was required on two or three masts, each with a protected top, carrying one or more machine or rapid-fireguns. The main batterywas to havefour 10-in. guns, each weighing 26½tons, and six 6-in.guns each weighing 5 tons. The secondary battery was to be composed of four 6-pounder, four3-pounder, and two 1-pounder Hotchkiss rapid-fire guns, four 47-millimeters and four 37-millimeters Hotchkiss revolving cannon, and four Gatling guns. The vessel was to be equipped with a torpedo and searchlight outfit, and the guns were to be so arranged as to obtain for bow and stern fire the greates thorizontal and vertical command consistent with other essential conditions. The 10-in. guns were to load in at least two positions,and were to be served and handled by power and protected by at least 10 1/2 inch of steel armor, properly backged, while the 6-in. guns were to be efficiently shielded. The motive machinery was to be below the armored deck and well covered from hostile fire, and the ship was to be driven by twin screws. When fullyequipped and with all weights on board, excluding the reserve coal, she was to maintain 17 knots speed per hour over the measured mile. The coal endurance had to be large, the consump tion economical, and the distance to be covered at mod erate speed as great as practicable. The furnaces were to be arranged to work with forced draught when desired, air for combustion being furnished independently of the ventilating system. Quarters had to be provided for 270 officers and men, with provisions provisi for three months and water for one month. The ship was required to have arrangements for being steered either by power or by hand from several independent positions upon and below the deck. A sufficient number of boats to carry the crew were to be furnished, two of them being second class torpedo boats and two others steam launches or cutters, each of which was able to mount, shielded, one 3 pounder rapid-fire gun. These conditions were to be fulfilled at a maximum draught of 22 feet and on a displacement of about 6,000 tons."
The Railroad and Engineering Journal, July edition p. 311 and 315 reported that the US Navy still considered the building but did not invite yet for bids of shipyards. In the meantime reported the Board to the Secretary of the Navy what the results were of the plans sent by various parties in last April. The Board was appointed on 22 April. Some plans were not conform the requirements and were already rejected. Dealing with the plans of the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, Lieutenant W. I. Chambers. A. H. Grandjean and the Thames Iron Works & Shipbuilding Company was the conclusion that “The marked differences in the essential features of the designs prevent their classification in the order of merit; each exhibits features which strongly commend themselves, but the Board does not consider it advisable for the Government to build a vessel upon any one of these.”
In The Railroad and Engineering Journal, August edition p. 357-359 were the results of the examination discussed. The Board recommended not one of the submitted designs for an armored cruiser. The plans were to be carefully examined before anything could be decided. Yet it was probably the design of the Bureau of Construction of the Navy Department made a good chance to be chosen. In the end is indeed chosen for this design.
The Railroad and Engineering Journal, May edition p. 211 wrote that the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, of Barrow-in-Furness, England, Mr. [William] John, designer, submitted a design “for an armored cruiser'having the 10-in. guns mounted in separate box-shaped, armored casemates on a covered gun deck, so arranges as to fire two aheadm two astern and two abeam.” The Internal Revenu Record and Customs Journal, dated 11 April 1887 p. 114 wrote that she offered a design without supplying more details.
Note
1. Ordered on 3 August 1886, laid down by New York Naval Shipyard on 17 October 1888, launched on 18 November 1890, commissioned on 17 September 1895 and sunk due to an explosion in the harbour of Havana, Cuba on 15 February 1898 and what was left of her was scuttled in the Strait of Florida on 16 March 1912.
Sources
Engineering. An Illustrated Weekly Journal. London, 1885.
Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal. Volume XXXIII, January-December 1887.
The Nation No. 113, p. 286.
The Railroad and Engineering Journal, vol. LXI (Volume 1, new series), New York, 1887.
Hamersly, Lewis Randolph. The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Philadelphia, 1894.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 9 November 1767 1/32 part in the Dutch fluytship de Maria en Catharina and the whaling tools of commandeur Jan Quak, built in 1734, dimensions 109 3/4 x 27.8, 6-7 boats, bookkeeper Klaas Kruyer, 225 guilders, stroke 35 guilders, Klaas Kruyer
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 9 November 1767 1/32 part in the Dutch fluytship de Maria en Catharina and the whaling tools of commandeur Jan Quak, built in 1734, dimensions 109 3/4 x 27.8, 6-7 boats, bookkeeper Klaas Kruyer, 175 guilders, stroke 50 guilders, Klaas Kruyer
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De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
Rotterdam, Netherlands 2 June 2026
Malta-flageed, homeport Valletta, IMO 7349807, MMSI 249119000 and call sign 9HA4115. Built by Flender Werft, Lubeck, Germany 1974. Owner/manager Allseas Engineering, Delft, Netherlands. Earlier Panama flagged, call sign 3EWN4.
An item mentioned that ship brokers sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 9 November 1767 1/32 part in the Dutch fluytship de Vrouw Anna and the whaling tools of commandeur Jacob Potter, built in 1749, dimensions 113.5 x 29.7 feet, 6-7 boats, bookkeeper Hendrik de Haan, 100 guilders, stroke 10 guilders, Aart Assenberg
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De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, November, Amsterdam, 1767.
Chang Feng-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Lung Tuang-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Preceded by Chang Feng-class. Ordered by Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino (STT) of Trieste , Austria [nowadays Italy] in 1912, launched in 1913, seized by Austria-Hungary on 1 August 1914, completed on 10 September 1914, commissioned as SMS Warasdiner, ceded to Italy in 1920 and broken up. Her design was derived from that of the Austro-Hungarian Huszár-class destroyer commissioned between 1905-1911.
