14.7.1936 Kiribati Island, St. Stanislas Bay 317th. day at sea
Schiff 30 and the tanker arrive off Kiribati Island and enter St. Stanislas Bay via the Cook Island Passage and anchored in position 1°55'N, 157°29'W. Here the tanker is stripped of all useful material, fuels, oils, and equipment in preparation for the ship to be sunk as a target in the pacific. Kapitan.z.S Hartmann plans to remain in St. Stanislas Bay for 10 days.
Sending 2 aircraft on reconnaissance flights daily one of the aircraft’s observers, L.z.S(M) Freytag took a photograph of Schiff 30 and the tanker at anchor in St. Stanislas Bay. While on Kirimati Island 6 landing parties are sent on land to explore the Island At 1000 hrs. 3 landing parties are sent aboard the 3 V-Boots and the remaining three will go aboard the cutters I-III. A seventh landing team will go and collect coconuts for the ship.
A house was located on Benson Point from a sign on one of the buildings the name “Paris House” was barely made out. The German officers stated that there were no sign of inhabitants this was reported to the Kommandant however to Kapitan.z.S Hartmann there is a possibility that the island was inhabited. Hartmann decided to sail from the island and anchor off Cecile Peninsula in the Vaskess Bay this was transmitted to the landing parties as well as to say away from the northern part of the island as it is most likely to be inhabited Schiff 30 sailed at night arriving that same night to her new position 1°51'N, 157°30'W.
By 13.7. All landing parties return to Schiff 30 reporting that there were mostly fresh and saltwater lagoons numerous coconut trees. 800 coconuts were collected from 60 coconuts trees. Hartmann plans to sail out into the Pacific to conduct her gunnery, boarding, and demolition exercises.
According to BBC and Reuters, the situation in Spain is deteriorating rapidly.
In less than 48 hrs. the peacetime cruise of Schiff Nr. 30 would end and her wartime cruise would begin.
Schiff 30 and the tanker anchored in St. Stanislas Bay one of the seaplanes is in the air for a reconnaissance flight
Schiff 30 anchored off Cecile Peninsula in Vaskess Bay
Schiff 30 and the tanker photographed from the second seaplane.