An item reported that the Dutch motor lugger Aurora was sold by the shipping company D. de Mos, Scheveningen, Netherlands to the recently founded Nederlandsch-Danziger Visscherij Maatschappij Kormoran, Free City of Danzig. She was reflagged and renamed Hobenstein (D.Z.G. 15), although still with a Dutch crew and as homeport Scheveningen used for the herring fishery.(1)
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1. The Danziger Hochseefischerei-Gesellschaft Kormoran m.b.H. founded on 10 June 1939. Preceded by the Visscherij Maatschappij Neptune also named N.V. Zeevaart Maatschappij voor Overzeevisscherij Neptun or Hochseefischerei und Fischindustrie m.b.H., Gdynia, Poland.
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1. The Danziger Hochseefischerei-Gesellschaft Kormoran m.b.H. founded on 10 June 1939. Preceded by the Visscherij Maatschappij Neptune also named N.V. Zeevaart Maatschappij voor Overzeevisscherij Neptun or Hochseefischerei und Fischindustrie m.b.H., Gdynia, Poland.