An item referred to a cable received on 6 December reporting that the British cabinet forbade the loading of a German collier at Cardif while she earlier supplied coal to the Baltic Fleet at Dakar, Senegal [then a French colony]. Considered by the cabinet as a Russian storeship. She is probably identical to the Menzell mentioned in a telegram the same day. The German steamship Hans Menzell (1)departed from Roath Basin, Cardiff on 13 September loaded with 3,200 tons of coal bound for Madeira, Portugal. Another German steamship Captain W. Menzell was then loading there and departed end same month to Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain. German steamships like the Valencia, Milis, Bygia, Elisabeth, Ascanis, Pallas and Lydia loaded coal for West African harbours as Las Palmas and Teneriffe. Several ships were charted by the Hamburg-American Steamship Company to act as colliers for the Russian Baltic Fleet. German colliers supplied at Zanzibar the Russian Volunteer Fleet cruisers Petersburg and Smolensk with coal.(1)
Notes
1. Owner Hanseatische Dampfer Cie., manager Menzell&Co., launched by C.S. Swan&Hunter, Newcastle, England with yard number 103, Wallsend yard on 7 May 1888, completed in June 1888. Ex-Gellivara renamed Milos in 1898, renamed Hans Menzell in 1901, sunk in the North Atlantic underway from the USA to Danzig on 23 February 1911.
2. Russo-Japanese War 8 February 1904-5 September 1905
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