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by davidships
Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:48 am
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: 1917 collision CAVOUR and CAPRERA (amended)
Replies: 3
Views: 10799

Re: 1917 collision CAVOUR and CAPRERA (amended)

Belated thanks to you both - very helpful.
by davidships
Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:26 am
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Famagusta 1944-1947
Replies: 8
Views: 884367

Re: Famagusta 1944-1947

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...
by davidships
Sun Jul 16, 2023 3:37 am
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: 1917 collision CAVOUR and CAPRERA (amended)
Replies: 3
Views: 10799

1917 collision CAVOUR and CAPRERA (amended)

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...
by davidships
Thu Jun 15, 2023 1:27 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Deniz???
Replies: 2
Views: 6309

Re: Deniz???

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 ...
by davidships
Sun Jun 11, 2023 9:16 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: tug PINGUIN
Replies: 3
Views: 7206

Re: tug PINGUIN

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 ...
by davidships
Wed May 24, 2023 1:32 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: MARIA PIA
Replies: 0
Views: 8013

MARIA PIA

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]...
by davidships
Fri May 12, 2023 12:42 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Cyprus 1964
Replies: 2
Views: 4772

Re: Cyprus 1964

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...
by davidships
Sun Apr 30, 2023 8:29 am
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: French SINAÏA
Replies: 2
Views: 4114

Re: French SINAÏA

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...
by davidships
Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:46 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: off topic: barque FIETJOFF 1857+
Replies: 3
Views: 6251

Re: off topic: barque FIETJOFF 1857+

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...
by davidships
Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:41 am
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: off topic: barque FIETJOFF 1857+
Replies: 3
Views: 6251

off topic: barque FIETJOFF 1857+

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...
by davidships
Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:27 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: German tug ZUVERSICHT
Replies: 0
Views: 6416

German tug ZUVERSICHT

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 ...
by davidships
Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:47 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: MARIUS CHAMBON
Replies: 2
Views: 2250

Re: MARIUS CHAMBON

Merci, Alain.
That seems to make sense

DAvid
by davidships
Sun Nov 20, 2022 7:21 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: MARIUS CHAMBON
Replies: 2
Views: 2250

MARIUS CHAMBON

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...
by davidships
Sun Nov 13, 2022 3:32 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: ASTI ex MELETIOS VENETSANOS
Replies: 9
Views: 13475

Re: ASTI ex MELETIOS VENETSANOS

Interesting Aris
What were the other four?
by davidships
Sat Nov 12, 2022 10:56 am
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Wooden coaster BUSANT
Replies: 2
Views: 978

Re: Wooden coaster BUSANT

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