Belated thanks to you both - very helpful.

I believe that these "MIN---" vessels were composite-hulled caiques [kaikien], some with auxiliary engines, ordered by the War Office from boatbuilders in Egypt in about 1943 for use, particularly by the Special Operations Executive, in the Balkans in the latter-stages of the war (and then...

On 12 December 1917 Italian passenger liner CAVOUR ex-FLORIDA (built 1905 and by then owned by Transatlantica Italiana S.A. di Navigazione (Ansaldo Group) sank just off the Catalonian coast, near L'Ametlla de Mar after collision with the Italian "auxiliary cruiser CAPRERA". Was that the It...

Both may well be true - as a motorised caique. Described in The Times (London) on 19/10 and 20/10 as a "motor boat, registered in Izmir" in reports of the interception and subsequent court hearings on the detention of the captain and two crew held at Nicosia on 19/10 - which note that the ...

Hi Aris One of "Piet's little puzzles". The skeletal entry and lack of source, suggests that it has appeared on a list somewhere, and perhaps has some confusion with the 1941 motor tug ALBATROS II/PINGUIN which was defnitely owned by W de Ridder. But it seem very unlikely that the Germans ...

According to U-boat-Net an Italian tug MARIA PIA was shelled on 22 May 1918 by UB-50 while on voyage between Melilla and Oran with passengers; Capt Francisco Cappano and four others were killed, but the vessel survived. https://www.uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/7571.html 180grt 111nrt, built 1891 W[igham]...

Is this off the port of Polis? The Liverpool Echo, 8 August 1964 reported There was still confusion over last night's flight of jets. The Cyprus Government said the four jets strafed Polis harbour, hitting an Italian cargo ship, which had just taken on a load of copper ore. A spokesman for the Briti...

Confirmed, by Ian Buxton, from Barclay Curle technical particulars book in Mitchell Library that launched 19/8/1922, without name . Lloyd's Register quarterly launch returns also have Q2/1922. Also trials were on 17/10/1922 (but, so soon after launch, suggests that she may not have been fully fitted...

Thanks you both, and especially to erlbon for the detailed info and pointing me to the KulturArt site. It seems as if I will be able to use that without too much diffuculty (with Mr Google at my side) And I look forward to approach this also through your "dashboard" (message sent on that s...

The 300nrt FIETJOFF, listed in Lloyd's Register 1857-1859 was fomerly the British barque PASSENGER (listed up to 1856) built as a ship by John Brown & Sons at Montrose in 1840 for Robert Passenger, London (and later owned in Sunderland). in those 1857-1859 entries she is shown owned and captaine...

ZUVERSICHT ex-NORDENHAM ex-PEGU, built 1892 Rickmers Schiffbau AG, Geestemünde (Yd 88?) was sent to Norway in 1945 for Seetransportchef Norwegen, according to Skipet https://www.skipet.no/maritimt/jern-stal-fraktebater-1965/fraktebater-jern-star-100/53-basen/basen Then confiscated as enemy property ...

Merci, Alain.
That seems to make sense

DAvid

The 1905-built tug MARIUS CHAMBON was apparently requisitioned by the Marine Nationale on 29/8/1939 at Marseille and on 9/12/1939 sailed from Marseille for Beirut From two interesting threads on the Old Forum, we know that in 1941 the tug took refuge at Iskenderun in then-neutral Turkey in July 1941...

Interesting Aris
What were the other four?

Wow!! That is amazing, erlbon.
A quick thank you for the moment.
I am transcribing it - there are a few uncertainties - and will send by PM later.

David