KILINSKI

Built as a Victory ship type VC2-S-AP3 under yard No V7 by the California Shipbuilding Corp., Terminal Island, Los Angeles for the US Maritime Administration.
26 January 1944 keel laid down.
27 March 1944 launched as the MEXICO VICTORY.
Tonnage 7,612 gross, 4,564 nrt, 10,750 dwt. dim. 138.76 x 18.9 x 8.7m. (draught).
Powered by 2 Westinghouse Electric geared steam turbine 8,400 hp, one shaft speed 16.5 knots.
Crew 51, during war service 82.
19 May 1944 completed.

After delivery managed by Luckenbach SS Co. for the US Maritime Administration, was allocated to the United States Army Transport as an Army transport.
1947 Returned to the US Maritime Administration and laid up at Suisun Bay, California.
1947 Sold to the Gdynia-America Shipping Lines Ltd, Poland, renamed KILINSKI named after Jan Kilinski (1760-1890)
Mostly used in the liner service from Poland to the Far East.
1951 Transferred to Polish Ocean Line
At the end of the Indochina War and according to the Geneva Treaty, Vietnam was divided into two parts, the Vietminh took control over the northern part and the national government kept the power in the south.
In the agreement was given that the communist guerrilla units which had been active in the south have to been withdrawn from the south. About 100.000 soldiers and civilians and equipment had to be moved to the north.
Ho Chi Minh’s government was not able to organise this and asked help from the Soviet Union, the Soviets did not have any ship available and she chartered the KILINSKI which already operated in that waters.
She was chartered for four months by Sovfracht, with a possibility for prolongation.
The KILINSKI underway to Canton was after arrival and discharging of her cargo refitted in a troop transport to carry about 4000 people.
October 1954 in service as a troop transport, the French Navy were responsible to transport the soldiers from shore to the KILINSKI in the appointed zones on the coast of South Vietnam.
About between 3000 to 4000 people and there equipment were transported every trip, under the soldiers were many wounded.
The embarkation of the people in the south was carried out by the French Navy with landing craft, what was going easily, but of the 26 voyages the KILINSKI made only one cruise the troops were disembarked in Haiphong while the other disembarkations took place on the open roads in small fishing boats and the also a motor lifeboat from the KILINSKI was used.
July 1955 she finished her charter and together with a Russian ship the STAVROPOL the two ships transported 85,000 mainly troops, 3,500 pieces of different military equipment, 250 ton ammunition.

.1972 Laid up at Haiphong, Vietnam.
1973 Sold to Poul Christensen, Denmark, renamed LIN, registered at Nakskov, Denmark.
Her only voyage under the name LIN was from Haiphong to Taiwan where she arrived on 30 June 1973. She was sold to Chin Ho Faa Steel Co for breaking up.

Poland 1956 5g sg962, scott719.

Source: Log Book. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz info received from Mr. Gennadiy Sitnikov.

GUENDOLEN

GUENDOLEN: Built as a gunboat by G. Rennie & Co, Greenwich near London for the British Central Africa Administration in 1897.
Displacement 340 tons, dim. 136 x 24ft.
Twin screws, speed 10-12 knots.
Armament 2 - 6pdr. Hotchkiss guns forward and 1 – 3pdr. aft.

1899 Shipped out for assembly at Port Johnston.
May 1899 she made her maiden voyage on Lake Malawi with on board the Commissioner for the Protectorate on board.
Thereafter she took over the patrol duties on the lake from the ADVENTURE and PIONEER.
August 1914 she put out of action the only German gunboat on the lake the HERMANN VON WISSMANN, which was at that time beached and under repair. The news of this action reached the U.K. and was headlines in the news papers.
Till 1940 was she in government service.
1940 Transferred to the Nyasaland Railways.
1944 Scrapped at Fort Johnston when the hull was found to be unserviceable.
Various relics from the GUENDOLEN you can find in a mock-up bridge of the ship in the Lake Malawi Museum.
One of the Hotchkiss guns is mounted in front of the Vipya Memorial near the clock tower in Mangochi.

Malawi 1967 3s sg280, scott?

Source: Lake Malawi Steamers by P.A. Cole-King.

CZECH reefer vessel.

Built as a fruit carrier under yard No 477 by Götaverken at Gothenburg, Sweden for Skibs A/S Wenoka, Oslo, Norway.
30 October 1933 launched as the CALIFORNIA EXPRESS.
Tonnage 3,649 gross, 2,219 net, 3,150 dwt. Dim. 107.22 x 14.4m., length bpp. 101.9m.
Powered by two oil engines, manufactured by Gotaverken, 4,200 shp, twin screws, speed 16 knots.
Accommodation for 12 passengers.
January 1934 delivered to owners.

After delivery managed by Skibs-A/S Fruit Express Line and used in the service from the Caribbean to the U.K./France and west coast of U.S.
When World War broke out her voyages are given on this web-site http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/c ... press.html

After the war again used in the banana trade from the Caribbean to Europe.
1949 Sold to Polish British S.S. Co, Poland and renamed in CZECH.
1951 Transferred to the Polish Ocean Lines, Poland.
07 March 1953 she rescued 62 survivors from the Egyptian Navy minesweeper SOLLUM which foundered in a storm off Alexandria.
21 September 1961 collided with the Spanish ship PLUS ULTRA.
March 1965 sold for scrap and broken up in July 1965 at Gdansk.

Poland 1953 1.35Zl sg815, scott581.

Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1934. The URL given above and more sites on the Internet.

STADT LUZERN paddle steamer 1873

The side paddle steamer STADT LUZERN was the first steamboat on Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) in Switzerland.
Built on a makeshift yard of Escher Wyss AG, near Froschenburg for the Dampfschiffahrtgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersee, later this company was renamed after one of the founders Knorrische Dampfschiff Gesellschaft.
1836 Keel laid down.
29 July 1837 launched as the STADT LUZERN.
Tonnage 115 dwt in empty condition, dim. 37.5 x 5.1 x 2.44m. draught 1.14m empty
Powered by two 1-cyl.balancier steam engines manufactured in Manchester U.K., 40 nhp, speed 9.77 km/h.
Passengers 300, crew 6.
A flush-decked ship which could carry 10 tons cargo.

20 September 1837 made her maiden voyage from Luzern to Flüelen; she made this passage in three hours.
1838 Was she fitted out with a mast and sails, and her funnel lengthened, the mast and sails were around 1849 removed while there was no need for was
1840/41 The boiler strengthened, 1849 rebuild.
1872 Refitted in a cargo vessel and her boiler renewed.
May 1881 out of service and her steam engine, boiler and paddlewheels removed, where after she was used as a towing barge.
1888 Fitted out with a new 2-cyl.compound steam engine which drove a screw.
Then used as a coal bunker boat for the steamships on the lake.
1924 Fitted out with an oil-engine.
When the coal steamers were converted in oil fired steam ships there was not any need for coal, and the STADT LUZERN was in 1963 rebuilt in bilge water collecting vessel and renamed BIEBO.
Till 2005 in use as a bilge water collecting craft.
2009 Taken out of service.
2013 Most probably still around but can not find anything on her.

Switzerland 1986 45c sg1108, scott?

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadt_Luzern_(1837). Navicula.

AKADEMIK TRYOSHNIKOV

Built as icebreaker/research vessel under yard No2440 by the Admiralty yard in St Petersburg, Russia for the Russian Federation.
30 June 2009 keel laid down.
Launched under the name AKADEMIK TRYOSHNIKOV, named after Alexey Tryoshnikov who was the President of the Geographical Society of the USSR since 1977.
Tonnage12,701 grt, 3,810 nrt, 6,634 dwt, dim. 133.53 x 23.25 x 13.50m. Length bpp. 123.24m
Powered: diesel electric by two Wärtsilä W9L38B each 6,525 kW. and 1 Wärtsilä 6L38B, 4,350 kW, two Electric motors each 7,000 kW, two shafts, speed 15 knots. In ice of a thickness of 1.1m her speed is 2 knots.
Bunker capacity 2,479 tons.
Range 15,000 mile.
Six holds total capacity 3961 cubic meter and 3 reefer holds total capacity 881 cubic meter.
Container capacity: 24 including 5 reefer containers.
11 Scientific laboratories
Accommodation for 80 people and 60 crew.
Carried two Kamov Ka-32 helicopters.
15 December 2012 completed. Homeport St Pietersburg.
Managed by the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.

Her maiden voyage was from St Pietersburg to the Antarctic with a call at Montevideo where she was shifted from one berth to a other on 23 January 2013 she grounded, was refloated and docked to inspect her for any damage before she sailed to the Antarctic waters.
She will be back in St Pietersburg later in 2013.

2013 In service IMO No 9548536.

On a Russian envelope issued in 2013 with postmarks I can not read. (Image of the envelope with thanks to Mr. Gennadiy Sitnikov)

Source: Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. Wikipedia and http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz

POLLACK (SSN-603)

Built as an attack submarine under yard No 534 by New York Shipbuilding at Camden, New Jersey for the USA Navy.
When she was ordered on 03 March 1959 her intended name was BARB but before launching changed.
14 April 1960 laid down.
17 March 1962 launched as the USS POLLACK (SSN-603) one of the Permit class. Christened by Mrs. John Pastore.
Displacement 3,750 tons surface, 4,310 tonsubmerged. Dim. 84.86 x 9.63 x 7.67m. (draught)
Powered by two geared General Electric steam turbines, 15,000 hp, one shaft, speed 20 knots surface, 35+ knots submerged.
Armament: 4 – 21 inch torpedo tubes for Subroc Harpoon missiles
Crew 107.
26 May 1964 commissioned under command of Commander Harvey E. Lyon.

POLLACK reported to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet for duty, and became a unit of Submarine Squadron 4, homeported in Charleston, South Carolina. After shakedown in the Caribbean Sea, she underwent a six-month evaluation as an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon.
Most of 1965 was spent at sea evaluating new ASW tactics, participating in a destroyer versus submarine evaluation, and practicing an anti-shipping mission. Also during 1965 POLLACK earned the Navy Unit Commendation.
During 1966, POLLACK was evaluated in coordinated ASW operations. She spent most of 1967 at sea, making various weapons tests. On 1 March 1968, POLLACK's homeport was changed to Norfolk, Virginia, and she became a unit of Submarine Squadron 10, the first all-nuclear attack submarine squadron in the Navy. POLLACK remained with the Atlantic Fleet into 1970.
Following refueling overhaul at Charleston Naval Shipyard, POLLACK was transferred to the Pacific Fleet and SubRon-3. She made a liberty call in Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico and transited the Panama Canal to reach her new home port of San Diego, California, in March 1975.
In 1979 POLLACK began a refit in Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California. She returned to Submarine Squadron 3, Submarine tender SPERRY (AS-12), and San Diego, California, in 1982.
In 1988, POLLACK transferred to Submarine Group 5 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
POLLACK was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 March 1989 . Ex-POLLACK entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, on 9 February 1993. Recycling was completed on 17 February 1995.
Djibouti 2013 350 Fr sg?, scott? (other two submarines are BIBER and in the margin the SHILDER)
Source: mostly from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pollack_(SSN-603) Warships of the US Navy by Morrinson and Rowe.

BIBER midget submarine

Built in Germany in three sections and bolted together for the German Navy as a midget submarine.
Displacement 5.7 tonnes, dim. 8.9 x 1.6 x 1.6m.
Powered by 1 Opel Blitz Otto petrol engine of 32 hp (24 kW) and a electric motor of 13 hp (9.7 kW)
Speed 6.5 knots surfaced. 5.3 knots submerged.
Fuel capacity 0.11 tons.
Range 100 mile on the surface.
Test depth 20m.
Armament: Two G7e torpedoes or two GS mines.
Crew 1

The Biber (German for "beaver") was a German midget submarine of the Second World War. Armed with two externally mounted 21-inch (53 cm) torpedoes or mines, they were intended to attack coastal shipping. They were the smallest submarines in the Kriegsmarine.
The Biber was hastily developed to help meet the threat of an Allied invasion of Europe. This resulted in basic technical flaws that, combined with the inadequate training of their operators, meant they never posed a real threat to Allied shipping, despite 324 submarines being delivered. One of the class's few successes was the sinking of the cargo ship ALAN A, DALE
A number have survived in museums including one example that has been restored to operational condition.
Construction of the first prototype began in February 1944 and was completed in less than 6 weeks.The initial prototype was officially titled Bunteboot (but better known as Adam) was heavily influenced by the British Welman submarine. It differed from the final design in a number of respects such as being nearly 2 meters shorter. Following testing on the Trave river on 29 May twenty four Bibers were ordered.
The hull was built in three sections composed of 3 mm thick steel with an aluminium alloy conning tower bolted to the top. The conning tower contained armoured glass windows to allow the pilot to see out The hydroplanes and rudder were made of wood and trying to control them while tracking the depth gauge, compass and periscop made the craft hard to handle. Adding to the pilot’s difficulties, the craft lacked compensating and trimming tanks, making staying at periscope depth a near impossibility The Biber had two diving tanks one in the bow section and one in the stern.
The submarine could be armed with either two TIIIc torpedoes with neutral buoyancy (achieved by limiting the number of batteries on board), mines or a mixture of the two.
The Biber was powered on the surface by a 32 hp (24 kW) Otto blitz petrol engine which was used despite concerns about the risks posed by the carbon monoxide the engine gave off. The engine had the advantage of being cheap and available in large numbers. Propulsion while submerged was provided by a 13 horse power electric motor powered by three Type T13 T210 battery troughs.
Biber operations were carried out under the auspices of the K-Verband, a German naval unit which operated a mixture of midget submarines and explosive speedboats. The training of Biber operators was originally planned to take eight weeks, but the initial group of pilots was rushed through in just three weeks. Planning also called for flotillas of 30 boats and pilots with just under 200 shore support crew.
Operations generally lasted from one to two days with pilots either using a drug known as DIX to stay awake on longer missions or caffeine-laced chocolate. The poor quality of the Biber's periscope meant that night attacks had to be carried out on the surface.
The first Biber operation was launched on 30 August 1944 from Fécamp harbour. Twenty-two boats were launched but only 14 were able to leave the harbour and of those fourteen only two managed to reach their operational area. The bibers were then withdrawn to Mönchengladbach.
In December 1944 it was decided to deploy Bibers against traffic to Antwerp in the Scheldt Estuary. The force was based at Rotterdam with forward bases at Poortershaven and Hellevoetsluis. The first attack took place on the night of the 22/23 of December. Eighteen Biber were involved of which only one returned. The only allied loss caused by the operation was ALAN A DALE Further operations between the 23rd and the 25th achieved no success and none of the 14 submarines deployed survived. On the 27th the accidental release of a torpedo in the Voorneschen resulted in the sinking of 11 Bibers (although they were later recovered). The 3 undamaged bibers later sailed again; none returned. An operation on the night 29/30 January resulted in damage to (much of it due to ice) or loss of most of the remaining Bibers. Losses combined with RAF bombing prevented attacks from being mounted in February 1945. The bombing had damaged the cranes used to move the Bibers into and out of the water. Reinforcements allowed operations to continue until April 1945 but no successes were achieved and the Biber flotillas continued to take a very high rate of losses. The last Biber mission was an attempt at mine laying and took place on the night of 26 April. Of the 4 Bibers that took part one ran aground and three were attacked by Thunderbolts which sank two of them.
In January 1945 an attempt was made to mount an attack on Vaenga Bay in the Kola Inlet. The hope was either to attack one of the convoys that stopped there to refuel and take on ammunition or to attack the Soviet battleship ARKHANGELSK (HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN) on loan to the USSR). As it happened neither the battleship nor a convoy were in the port at the time of the planned attack. The plan was for U-boats to carry the Bibers within range of the harbour. U-295, U-318 and U-716 set off from Harstad on 5 January with Bibers mounted on their casings. Vibrations from the U-boats’ engines caused the Bibers stern glands to leak allowing water to reach the machinery space and as a result the mission was abandoned.
Planning for two man versions (Biber II and Biber III) began but never got off the drawing board.
Bibers still around today:
Biber No.90
This craft is displayed at the Imperial War Museum, London. It was one of three Bibers launched from the canal at Hellevoetsluis in late December 1944. It was found sinking 49 miles (79 km) NE of Dover on 29 December 1944, its crewman had failed to properly close the engine exhaust system and died from resultant carbon monoxide poisoning. The minesweeper HMS READY took it in tow and, even when it sank close to Dover harbour entrance, the Royal Navy still raised it and subjected it to extensive trials. One oddity discovered during the initial search of the boat was:
a bottle hidden under the seat and inside was a document in English, which, romantic as it read, appeared to have some bearing on the capture of the submarine, and possibly the explanation of why the pilot met his end.
That is all that the report says about that finding, any further details appear to have been lost.
Biber No.105

Submarine No.105 with a torpedeo mounted at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum.
This Biber held by the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport. It is in a working condition and believed to be the only fully operational World War 2 submarine in existence. The submarine was restored to working condition by apprentices from Fleet Support Limited in 2003 under the guidance of Ian Clark. The restoration featured in the third series of Channel 4's television programme, Salvage Squad, during which the craft was successfully test-dived in a flooded dry dock.
Biber at the Nederlands Kustverdedigingsmuseum in Hook of Holland
This example was discovered in 1990 during dredging operations in the Nieuwe Waterweg, in the Netherlands. It has since been restored.
Three more Bibers can be seen in the Netherlands; one in Vlissingen, at Fort Rammekens, and another at the Overloon War Museum. The third Biber is privately owned and displayed outdoors at Sloten near Amsterdam, it has been painted red and white and serves as an advertising sign.
Other Bibers...
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Postby aukepalmhof » Tue May 19, 2009 9:02 pm

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The wreck seen on this MS sheet of Aruba issued in 2007, “Wrecks and Reefs from Aruba” is given by Log Book as JANE, but not a ship under that name is a wreck on Aruba, but the JANE SEA is.

She was built as a cargo vessel under yard No 157 by N.V. Scheepswerf Westerbroek, Westerbroek, Netherlands for S.W. Coe & Metcalf Shipping Ltd. Liverpool.
30 December 1959 launched under the name BLACKTHORN.
Tonnage 749 grt, 360 net, 1.052 dwt, dim. 57.76 x 10.32 x 3.89m.
One MAN diesel engine manufactured by Grossley Bros, 907 bhp., speed 11 knots.
Bunker capacity 64 ton.
1960 Completed.

1976 Sold to Effluents Services Ltd, renamed RUDYARD, thereafter in use as a sludge and mud carrier.
1984 Sold by Essandee Shipping Ltd., to De Roche Enterprise Ltd, Shoreham U.K. not renamed.

Thereafter here whereabouts are obscure, it is believed that she later was owned by a company from Venezuelan, and used in the transport of cement from Venezuela to Aruba

She was arrested and confiscated by authorities in Aruba after finding cocaine on board, when her owners did not reclaim her; she was taken by local divers who made her easily accessible for divers and thereafter scuttled off Aruba in September 1988. She is now one of the best dive sites in Aruba.

Aruba 2007 500c sg?, scott304c
Aruba 2012 100c sg?, scott?

Sources: Lloyds Registry 1985/86 Marine News 1981/375, 1984/449. Some web-sites.
http://www.searuba.com/news-detail.php?id=66
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