Pernambuco_6_1941.jpg The Swedish motor tanker CASTOR photographed in the mid 1930s.EsikatselukuvatThe motor vessel PERNAMBUCO in the port of Hamburg in 1931.The Swedish motor tanker CASTOR photographed in the mid 1930s.EsikatselukuvatThe motor vessel PERNAMBUCO in the port of Hamburg in 1931.The Swedish motor tanker CASTOR photographed in the mid 1930s.EsikatselukuvatThe motor vessel PERNAMBUCO in the port of Hamburg in 1931.
1925: built by Kockums Mekaniske Verksted A/B Malmö, yard number 146. Nov 1925 delivered to Angfartygs A/S Tirfing (mgrs. S. G. Janson), Göteborg as SKANELAND.
Measured with 4121 grt / 2462 nrt and 7772 ts deadweight, powered by 6-cyl. 2 stroke cycle oil engine with 2650 H.P., service speed 12 kn.
Dec 1927: bought by Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschiff-Gesellschaft (HSDG), Hamburg, 18 Jan 1928 commissioned as PERNAMBUCO for the Germany-Brazil route.
13 Aug 1939: left San Francisco do Sul, disguised as Swedish ship NYLAND, 12 Sept 1939 arrived Hamburg after outbreak of World War II.
13 March 1940: requisitioned by German Navy (Kriegsmarine) as war transport for Unternehmen Weserübung, the occupation of Denmark and Norway.
15 April – 12 May 1940: made supply runs between Kiel and Oslo, 21 May 1940 returned to its civil owners.
4 Aug 1940: once again requisitioned by Kriegsmarine as war transport for Unternehmen Seelöwe, the planned occupation of Great Britain, handed back to its owners 3 Dec 1940.
17 April 1941: requisitioned by Kriegsmarine as supply ship for German troops in Norway until 18 May 1942.
12 Jan 1943: on the lower Oder river collided with the German s/s Possehl (2369 grt / 1921).
29 July 1943: in Bremen damaged by 13 ignition bombs during an Allied air raid.
4 Oct 1943: in the Varangerfjord attacked by Soviet submarine M-105 with 2 torpedoes while in convoy, no hit.
11 May 1944: off Kirkenes set afire by Soviet air attack but fire was extinquished, 13 May 1944 anew hit by Soviet bombs near Kirkenes and put ashore to be salvaged later.
9 May 1945: at Kiel, on 6 June taken prize by British authorities.
24 Sept 1945: taken over by Great Britain as EMPIRE DART for the MoWT, London.
8 Febr 1946: handed over to the Soviet Union, renamed KRASNODAR for the Black Sea State Steam Shipping Co., Ilyichevsk.
1 Jan 1975: arrived at Split to be broken up by Brodospas in April 1975.

Photo and text: Sebastian Boreck, Berlin