Hamburg, Germany 15 September 2023
Germany-flagged, homeport Hamburg, and Hamburg Ship Register H4028. ENI 08865420 or 5117310, MMSI 211315290 and call sign DH3855. Operator Walter Lauk Shipping, Hamburg. Dimensions 18.09 x 5.12 x 2.60 metres. Built as steam tug by Gebr. Sachsenberg, Köln in 1914 and converted into a motor tug by Schiffswerft H. Sunkel, Hamburg-Veddel, Germany in 1955.
An item reported that the Dutch steel built sailing lugger Alma (IJM.249) of the Vereenigde Exploitatie Mij., IJmuiden, Netherlands was sold to captain A. von Allwörden, Dornbusch, Germany converted into a cargo ship and fitted out with an Apenrader engine and to be used in the coastal shipping as Gretch von Allwörden.
An item reported that the Dutch steel built sailing lugger Ana (KW.28) was sold by H. de Boer, Katwijk, Netherlands towards France and now owned by Louis Coël. She was to be used again for the fishery after she was fitted out with an engine.
An item reported that the Dutch steel built sailing lugger Julie (IJM.210) bought by the Visscherij Mij. Kennemerland, IJmuiden, Netherlands was converted into a motor ship and renamed Christine (K.W.40). To be used in the North Sea fishery homeport IJmuiden.
An item dated IJmuiden, Netherlands 22 July reported the arrival of the Dutch herring motor lugger Martenshoek under own power. She was in the meantime docked to investigate if her bottom was damaged after her grounding in the Haaksgronden where she was refloated by the Dutch tugs Drente and Assistent.
An item dated IJmuiden, Netherlands 16 February reported that a diver would try to fasten some steel cables around the hull of the Dutch motor botter U.K. 152 sunk near the Zuiderpier. Some other botters would try next to salvage her and taken her into the harbour.
An item reported that the Dutch steel built sailing lugger Volharding (M.A.38) recently bought by M. Kwakkelstein, Vlaardingen, Netherlands and the steel built sailing lugger Maria (SCH.415) of Corn. Roeleveld, Scheveningen, Netherlands were both sold towards France. After fitting out with an engine in France to be used as cargo ships.
An item reported that the Dutch steel built sailing luggers Anna (KW.28) and De Hoop (KW.46) of H. de Boer, Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands were sold to France. By Burgerhout’s Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf, Rotterdam, Netherlands were both fitted out with 1-100hp Deutz engine.
In his letter dated Bucharest, Romania 22 April 1943 to the Reichskommissar dealing with the position of the tugs and lighters in Russian waters on that same day mentioned the Seetransportchef at Kertsch, Crimea the German motor ship Vitez.
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Value 250,000 crowns, displacement 480 tons. Part of the Danube Flotilla of the former Austro-Hungarian Navy passing in Hungarian possession on 1 November 1918.
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1. Actual situation. Tug fitted out with diesel engines. Called an armed auxiliary steamship which was disarmed and the guns were carried away with the lighter S 7 following orders of the Commandement du Danube
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The Hungarian peace negotiations. An account of the work of the Hungarian peace delegation at Neuilly s/S from January to March, 1920, vol II. Published by the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Budapest, 1922
Launched by Maatschappij voor Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands with yard number 274 for account of the N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij ‘Nederland’, Amsterdam, Netherlands on 12 April 1916, delivered on 19 October 1916 and torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 160 in the early morning of 21 November 1942 650 miles east of Trinidad, underway from Cape Town, South Africa to the USA. Call sign NHBD since 1934 PDDI. Gross tonnage 6,481 tons, net tonnage 4,027 tons, deadweight 9,124 tons, grain capacity 468,000 cubic feet, bale capacity 428,000 cubic feet and as dimensions 182.02 (registered) x 16.61 (registered) x 8,53 (registered) meters. Fitted out with 1-3,600 ihp 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine allowing a speed of 12.50 knots. In 1925 replaced by 1-3,600 ahp Sulzer diesel engine allowing a speed of 13 knots.
Netherlands-flagged, homeport Krimpen a/d IJssel, Netherlands, MMSI 244260087 and ENI 02324931. Built by Rybinsk Shipyard, Rybinsk, Russia and completed by Koedood Dieselservice, Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Netherlands in 2001.
Netherlands-flagged, EU 2203954. MMSI 244850305? Built with yard number 577 by Bijholt, Foxhol, Netherlands in 1963. As Serenity owned by someone from Straatsburg, France.
In his letter dated Bucharest, Romania 29 April 1943 to the Reichskommissar dealing with the position of the tugs and lighters in Russian waters on that same day mentioned the Seetransportchef at Balaklava, Crimea the tank motor ship Swoj Swome.
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High Command of the Kriegsmarine (OKM). Case 227. Website
An item reported that on Sunday the Finnish motor schooner Wellamoo (1) became a leak in the Frisian estuary and was brought by the rescue vessel Insulinde to Oostmahorn, Netherlands leaving there that morning arriving safely against the evening at Delfzijl, Netherlands with a cargo of 200 standaards sawn wood to be unloaded at Groningen, Netherlands.
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1. Call sign OHBX, gross tonnage 1.996 ton, net tonnage 988 ton, dimensions 263.6 x 39.8 x 22.4 feet, built in June 1927 by Akt. Burmeister&Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1939 owned by Finska Äng Aktieb., homeport Helsingfors, Finland-flagged.
An item reported the arrival at Zaandam, Netherlands on 6 January of the motorship Kuznetz Lesov from Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Soviet Union with a cargo of sawn wood.
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1. Ex-Severoles, call sign UIOQ. Gross tonnage 3.974 ton, under deck 3.524 ton, net tonnage 2.256 ton, dimensions 347.5 x 51.6 x 24.9 feet, built by States Shipbuilding Yard Marti, Leningrad, Soviet Union in 1933, homeport Vladivostok.
