List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships by German shipyards in July 1944. Type XXI. Yard Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany. Yard number Date building ordered 6 November 1943. Date completion 11 September 1944. Remarks due to air attack in end July was it impossible to predict new deadlines.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 147.
Tribal. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Sister ship and flotillaleader HMS Kelly©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of K-class destroyers and flotilla leader of her class preceded by Tribal-class succeeded by L- and M-classes. Laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on 5 October 1937, launched on 19 January 1939, commissioned on 27 November 1939 and sold to be broken up on 6 April 1949.
An item reported that the moral of officers and sailors of the Communist Chinese Navy was excellent and their appearance and of the operational ships continious smart. A report of a ship’s master who recently visited Shanghai, China confirmed this opinion. He saw a number of cremembers of 2 Jaiboken II’s marching up and down the No. 3 Pier having a clean, smart apperance and dressing except for their boots. The ships seemed to be kept very clean, smart and in a seamanlike manner. Ships underway were handled competently.
Source
Website Royal Australian Navy, Sea Power Centre.
Leander-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Arethusa-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Dido-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Arethusa-class built between 1933-1937 preceded by Leander-class succeeded by Dido- and Town-classses. Six were planned but just 4 completed and 2 cancelled. The cancelled Minotaur and Polyphemus were in 1934 ordered as HMS Newcastle respetcively Southampton part of the Town-class.
According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport 100, present position Balaklava, Crimea, remarks coaling, waiting for orders. The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.
Source
Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II.
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Stadsarchief Rotterdam. Collectie Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM)-481-RDM-7190
Launched by Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM), Rotterdam, Netherlands for the Cie. Maritime Belge (Lloyd Royal) Soc. Anom., manager Agence Maritime Internationale on 22 December 1928, delivered in February 1929 and sunk in a heavy weather underway from Durban, South Africa towards Cape Town, South Africa and Matadi, Congo-Kinshasa/Democratic Republic of the Congo on 19 March 1945. Homeport Antwerp, call sign OQBA. Gross tonnage 3,422 ton, under deck 2,952 tons, net tonnage 2,055 ton and as dimensions 339.9 x 48.5 x 23.0 feet. Coal fuelled.
A list dealing dated 28 June 1918 reported the status of work on the submarines expected on 30 June. Work started on 10 June 1918. Planned completion unknown. Description of the work overhaul. Remarks scope of work unknown after in the dock bottom and pressure hull damage was noticed.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 3-11254.
Icarus, I-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Tribal, Tribal-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Tribal-class or Afridi-class (32 planned 27 completed 5 cancelled) preceded by I-class succeeded by J-class. Design based on the so-called Design V small fleet cruiser, which design was also used for the Dido-class light cruisers. Laid down by Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company on 10 February 1940, launched on 7 February 1942, commissioned on 23 November 1942, decommissioned on 7 December 1959 and sold to be broken up on 15 February 1963.
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Preliminary design for the Soryu-class. Displacement 17,500 tons , lenth 787.5 (waterline) feet, horsepower 150,000 ship. Armament 6-20.3cm/8” guns and 5-15.5cm/6” guns.
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An item reporting that during the past months increasing numbers of ships exercising together were seen, especially off Tsingtao. There were almost daily between morning-evening 2 destroyers, 2-3 submarines and a number of LST’s active with weapon and ship-handling. Much equipment was however still elementary compared with modern standards.
Source
Website Royal Australian Navy, Sea Power Centre.
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Length 68.6 feet. The Chiyozuru-class with as dimensions 95 4/5 (overall) x 18 2/3 x 6 1/2 feeet and a displacement of 130 tons, wood-built between 1943-1945 as auxiliary sub chasers named after birds but which were before known as MS+number?
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by Gusto, Schiedam, Netherlands. Yard number 157. Date building ordered 3 October 1942. Date completion unknown depends on delivery propulsion allowing a future maximum completion of 5-7 Kriegsfischkutters possible.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
Engaged by the British government for the new expedition to the Sudan. Gross tonnage 1,392 tons. Transported stores. Due to the despressed state of the shipping trade was the Admiralty able to hire troop transports towards Suakin, Sudan for just 17s 6 ton/month in contrary to the 28s ton/month in the 1882 campaign. The first Suakim expedition was in February 1884, the second one in March 1885. The campaigns were part of the Mahdist War (1881-189) between the Mahdist Sudanese and the Khedivate Egypt later the United Kingdom resulting in the condominium Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1899-1956 and then succeeded by the Protectorate of Uganda, Italian Libya and the Republic of Sudan, nowadays Egypt, Libya, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. On 26 January 1885 fell Khartoum and the British garrison was massacred. In March was a British expeditionary force sent to Suakin but lacking success and finally withdrawn.
Source
The Steamship dated 16 February 1885, p. 64.
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Great Belt Bridge 23 April 2026
Russia-flagged, homeport St. Petersburg, IMO 8519837, MMSI 273412710 and call sign UCKZ. Launched by Rauma-Repola, Rauna, Finland on 8 September 1987, maiden voyagr started on 24 October 1987.
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
In a memorandum dated Berlin, Germany 24 November 1942 of the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine 3. Abteilung Seekriegsleistung was the Soviet merchant fleet in the Black Sea described. The majour source used for the memorandum were interrogations of prisoners of war. It became clear that in the Russian Black Sea harbours just 26 cargo ships with a total tonnage of 69,656 gross registers tons and 9 tankers with a total gross register tonnage of 45,790 ton were lying. Of this ships were however no more as 7 cargo ships (totally 18,998 BRT) and 3 tankers (14,45 BRT) available for tasks, the other ships were too damaged and regarded the present time not expected to be repaired on short notice.
Peredowik, 1,850 tons gross register tonnage, lying damaged in May 1942 at Batum, Georgia
Source
Bundesarchiv RM45-V-85.
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Type B ordered under the 1943-1944 Programme to be part of the coastal forces. Of the 280 ordered were just 56 laid down and even a less number finally completed when the Second World War ended. To serve as convoy escorts were the boats also fitted out with minesweeping gears. Based on a traditional wood built fishing boat. With a displacement of 238 tons and as dimensions 93.5 (between perpendiculars)-105. 3/4 (over all) x 20.2 x 7.75 feet. Geared diesel propulsion with 400bhp via one shaft and speed 9 knots. Crew numbered 26 men. Armament consisted of 2/4x1-2.5cm guns and 8-12 depth charges. Built by Fukushima. When the war ended still incomplete.Broken up.
Lenghth 235 feet. With raised breast work. Horsepower 400nhp. Measurement 2,494 tons.
Source
Website Royal Museums Greenwich Collection search. ID NPC 9073-9074
Natsushima. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Natshima-class consisting of the Nasami, Natsushima both Project H5 and Sarushima Project H5B. Ordered under the 1931 Programme. Designed was based on that of preceding Tsubama-class succeeded by Sokuten-class. Laid down by Tokyo Ishikawajima Zosen on 24 December 1931, launched on 24 March 1933, completed on 31 July 1933, sunk by the American Fletcher-class destroyers USS Stanly, Charles Ausburne and Dyson off Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea on 22 February 1944 and stricken on 30 April 1944.
Arrived on 21 December, ship , name master Lawson, tonnage - tons, belonged to London, England, active in the sperm oil fishery, cargo 200 barrels oil
Source
Accounts and papers of the House of Commons: seventeen volumes. Colonies; Emigration; Australia; Prisons, West Indies;etc. Session 15 November 1837-16 August 1838. Vol. XL.
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Call sign JPKJ. Built by Kahodate Dock Co. Ltd., Hakodate, Japan in 1937 and torpedoed and sunk by the American Porpoise-class diesel-electric submarine USS Pickerel SS 177 on position 06-12 North and 125-55 East on 15 February 1943. Gross tonnage 1,991 tons, under deck 1,605 tons, netto tonnage 1,147 tons, deadweight 2,746 tons and as dimensions 272.3 x 40.0 x 21.0 x 7’6” (light)-19 (loaded) feet. Reciprocating and LP turbine propulsion, single screw, horsepower 240nhp, coal bunker capacity 240 tons, range 4,000 nautical miles/12 knots and speed 12 (normal cruising)-14 (maximum) knots.
In a memorandum dated Berlin, Germany 24 November 1942 of the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine 3. Abteilung Seekriegsleistung was the Soviet merchant fleet in the Black Sea described. The majour source used for the memorandum were interrogations of prisoners of war. It became clear that in the Russian Black Sea harbours just 26 cargo ships with a total onnage of 69,656 gross registers tons and 9 tankers with a total gross register tonnage of 45,790 ton were lying. Of this ships were however no more as 7 cargo ships (totally 18,998 BRT) and 3 tankers (14,45 BRT) available for tasks, the other ships were too damaged and regarded the present time not expected to be repaired on short notice.
Schaumian, 1,624 tons gross register tonnage, in May 1942 in the Black Sea.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM45-V-85.
Lenghth 280 feet. Tonnage 3,774 tons, horsepower 800 nhp.
Source
Website Royal Museums Greenwich Collection search. ID NPC 9065-9071
USS Porter. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
USS Aylwin of the Farragut-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
USS Mahan. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Mahan-class (18 completed) preceded by Porter-class succeeded by Gridley-class. Improved version of the Farragut-class. Laid down by Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 27 October 1934, launched on 20 February 1936, commissioned on 19 September 1936, decommissioned on 28 June 1946, stricken on 25 February 1947 and sold to be broken up in August 1947.
Arrived on 21 December, barque, name master Clapham, tonnage 197 tons, belonged to New South Wales, active in the sperm oil fishery, cargo 850 barrels oil
Source
Accounts and papers of the House of Commons: seventeen volumes. Colonies; Emigration; Australia; Prisons, West Indies;etc. Session 15 November 1837-16 August 1838. Vol. XL.
1950s. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Pacific Fleet. Part of Partizan-class consisting of the Kamchadel or Kamchadal, Partizan and Poliarnyj. Laid down by Severnaia (190) Shipyard, Leningrad, Russia with yard number 474 on 29 June 1934, after launching transferred to A Marti (194) yard, Leningrad for completition, completed on 1 July 1937, commissioned on 30 September 1938 and stricken in 1964.
In a memorandum dated Berlin, Germany 24 November 1942 of the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine 3. Abteilung Seekriegsleistung was the Soviet merchant fleet in the Black Sea described. The majour source used for the memorandum were interrogations of prisoners of war. It became clear that in the Russian Black Sea harbours just 26 cargo ships with a total onnage of 69,656 gross registers tons and 9 tankers with a total gross register tonnage of 45,790 ton were lying. Of this ships were however no more as 7 cargo ships (totally 18,998 BRT) and 3 tankers (14,45 BRT) available for tasks, the other ships were too damaged and regarded the present time not expected to be repaired on short notice.
Stachanowets, 1,219 tons gross register tonnage, sunk in January 1942 near Feodosia, Crimea, salvaged in April 1942 and towed into safety
Source
Bundesarchiv RM45-V-85.
Pangasinan. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Former US PCE 842-class patrol craft, in, Philippine naval service Miguel Mlavar-class corvette succeeded by Rizal-class. Ordered on 7 May 1942, laid down by Albina Engine&Machine Works, Portland, Oregon, USA on 11 August 1943, launched on 10 November 1943, commissioned on 31 July 1944, handed over to the Philippines in July 1948, decommissioned on 1 October 2019 and capsized on 30 October 2022.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by Gusto, Schiedam, Netherlands. Yard number 156. Date building ordered3 October 1942. Date completion unknown depends on delivery propulsion allowing a future maximum completion of 5-7 Kriegsfischkutters possible.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
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Jane’s Fighting Ships 1959-1959 reported a torpedo boat indicated as ex-Kuai 102, built [by Lürssen] in Germany between 1936-1937 with a standard displacement of 60 tons and as dimensions 92 x 14 x 5 feet, maximum speed 30-33 knots and a crew numbering 14 men. ONI for Far East navies mentioned a torpedo boat ex-K’Uai 102 with a length of 106 feet. In hands of the China Communist Navy since 1949 and stricken in the 1960s?
Arrived on 21 December, ship , name master Ray, tonnage - tons, belonged to USA , active in the sperm oil fishery, cargo 100 barrels oil
Source
Accounts and papers of the House of Commons: seventeen volumes. Colonies; Emigration; Australia; Prisons, West Indies;etc. Session 15 November 1837-16 August 1838. Vol. XL.
Bremerhaven, Germany 19 April 2026
Germany-flagged, ENI 05306990, MMSI 211112160 and call sign DEPR. According to a brochure titled Salondampfer Hansa Das Restaurantschiff is the hull is of the former East German navy tug Hai completed after the Second World War using an uncompleted hull dating from the 1930s. Launched by VEB Edgar Andre as icebreaker Pu,a M-9-464 for account of Poland in 1954, order councelled and handed over to the Wasserstrassenhauptamt Magdeburg, Germany and received No. 2673. Modernized by VEB Schiffswerft at Rosslay, launched in 1959, as Hai (A13 later A11). commissioned in the East German Nay , modernized by VEB Peenewerft, Wolgast between 1977-1978, decommissioned on 3 August 1990, decided to be sold in 1991. Between 2000-2003 converted into the Hansa.
Sources
Breyer, Siegfried, Die Volksmarine in der DDR.
Schäfer , Knut and Peter Seemann. DDR-Marine 1949-1990.
Mehl, Hans, Knut Schäfer and Ulrich Israel. Vom Küstenschutzboot zum Raketenschiff.
Brochure Salondampfer Hansa Das Restaurantschiff
Navyworld dated 20 April 1990
Forum Marinearchiv dated 20 April 1990
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. Ms. Regensburg. Loaded with 3,600 ton rubber. Left Dairen on 5 May 1941 and arrived at Bordeaux, France on 27 June 1941.
Source
Bundesarchiv RM 7/223
Bremerhafen, Germany 19 April 2026
Orderred at Atlas-Werke, Brem, Germany in July 1914, launched on 11 April 1915. Originally also to be used as icebreaker. Double screw steamship. Dimensions 37.36 x 7.20 x 2.80 metres.
An item reported that in the Norwegian Oslo, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Tromso areas 711,000 mines were swept and destroyed which was just little over 50% of the total laid mines in these areas.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-66-67-28 Weekly Résumé (No. 306) of the naval, military and air situation from 0700 5th July to 0700 12th July 1945.
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 Swan Hunter. 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
Engaged by the British government for the new expedition to the Sudan. Gross tonnage 370 tons. Towing purposes. Due to the despressed state of the shipping trade was the Admiralty able to hire troop transports towards Suakin, Sudan for just 17s 6 ton/month in contrary to the 28s ton/month in the 1882 campaign. The first Suakim expedition was in February 1884, the second one in March 1885. The campaigns were part of the Mahdist War (1881-189) between the Mahdist Sudanese and the Khedivate Egypt later the United Kingdom resulting in the condominium Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1899-1956 and then succeeded by the Protectorate of Uganda, Italian Libya and the Republic of Sudan, nowadays Egypt, Libya, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. On 26 January 1885 fell Khartoum and the British garrison was massacred. In March was a British expeditionary force sent to Suakin but lacking success and finally withdrawn.
Source
The Steamship dated 16 February 1885, p. 64.
USS Porter. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
USS Aylwin of the Farragut-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
USS Mahan. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Mahan-class (18 completed) preceded by Porter-class succeeded by Gridley-class. Improved version of the Farragut-class. Laid down by United Shipyards Inc., Staten Island, New York, City, USA on 10 April 1935, launched on 18 April 1936, commissioned on12 June 1937, decommissioned on 14 December 1945 and sold on 31 December 1974.
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List of planning with deadlines for new construction of warships dated Berlin 22 May 1944. Built by Gusto, Schiedam, Netherlands. Yard number 155. Date building ordered3 October 1942. Date completion unknown depends on delivery propulsion allowing a future maximum completion of 5-7 Kriegsfischkutters possible.
Source
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moska. Records 500 findbuch 12453-file 152.
Heiryo Maru. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Similar Heiryo Maru (1918)-Hukusei Maru (1918), Teikai Maru (1918), Tosyo Maru (1918) and Toyo Maru (1918). Call sign JRDE. Built by Osaka Zosensho K.K., Osaka, Japan in 1918. Gross tonnage 1,223 tons, under deck 1,039 tons, netto tonnage 722 tons, deadweight 1,950 tons and as dimensions 225.0 x 33.0 x 18/7 x 5’6” (light)-16 (loaded) feet. Reciprocating propulsion, single screw, horsepower 97 nhp, bunker capacity 160 ton coal, range 2,000 nautical miles/7 knots and speed 7(normal cruising)-8 (maximum) knots.
An item reported that an Allied shore raiding party transported with light craft by daylight attacked Japanese island outposts in the western Halmaheras, Dutch East Indies. Supported by Allied aircraft were several warehouses and small craft destroyed.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-66-67-28 Weekly Résumé (No. 306) of the naval, military and air situation from 0700 5th July to 0700 12th July 1945.
Sister ship Entre Rios, Corrientes-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Catamarca-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Corrientes-class succeeded by Catamarca-class. Laid down by Yarrow, Popla
Part of Corrientes-class succeeded by Catamarca-class. Laid down by Yarrow, Poplar, England with yard number 1021 in 1895, launched on 10 October 1896, completed in January 1898 and stricken in October 1903.
