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. Motor tanker Rudolf Albrecht. Not loaded. Left Ponta Delgada, Azores on 8 May 1904. Arrived at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain on 17/18 May 1940. Transfer. Seized to be used as Etappen-V-Schiff.
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Bundesarchive RM 7-223.
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)
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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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Trove.
Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
An item reported that that on 3 November the British battleship HMS Thunderer left Funchal, Madeira/Portugal arriving on 4 November at Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands/Spain.(1)
Note
1. Building by Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company at the mouth of the Bow Creek on the west side at Canning Town ordered in 1909, laid down on 13 April 1910, launched on 1 February 1911, commissioned in May a year later and decommissioned in 1921 to became a year later a seagoing training ship for cadets and finally paid off in November 1926 in December 1926 and grounded off Blythe on her last voyage to the scrap yard. Part of the Orion-class, preceded by Colossus-class and succeeded by King George V-class.
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The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-129-73
Vlissingen, Netherlands 18 April 2021
Netherlands-flagged, homeport, Goes, Netherlands, IMO 9108829, MMSI 24416000 and call sign PCNC. Built by Societatea Comerciala Severnav S.A., Drobeta-Turnu, Severin Romania with yard number N030005 in 1996. Ex general cargo ship Alblas renamed on 30 January 2006 Cap Formentor (Spain/Canary Islands-flagged, MMSI 224802000 and call sign ECKR, homeport Santa Cruz de Tenerife), renamed Mandeo. As Mandeo owned/managed by Transportes Maritimos de Alcudia, Alcudia, Spain. Bought in begin 2019 by the Zandhandel Faasse b.v./Faasse Groep, Goes, Netherlands and rebuilt by EK Electronics into a hopper dredger.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 19 March 2011
Netherlands-flagged, homeport Santa Cruz de Tenerife?, IMO 9108829, MMSI 24416000 and call sign PCNC. Built by Societatea Comerciala Severnav S.A., Drobeta-Turnu, Severin Romania with yard number N030005 in 1996. Ex general cargo ship Alblas renamed on 30 January 2006 Cap Formentor (Spain/Canary Islands-flagged, MMSI 224802000 and call sign ECKR), renamed Mandeo. As Mandeo owned/managed by Transportes Maritimos de Alcudia, Alcudia, Spain. Bought in begin 2019 by the Zandhandel Faasse b.v./Faasse Groep, Goes, Netherlands and rebuilt by EK Electronics into a hopper dredger.
