15.4.1940 South Cape Island 75th day at sea
Schiff 19 arrives at South Cape Island. The raider now undergoes another change in disguise from Soviet Research Ship to a Dutch freighter. She will sail as the “Arendsderk” 7,700 grt PFLK homeport Amsterdam
Paint and camouflage of the ship:
1. Outer hull black
2. Superstructure dark grey
3. Bridge and signal deck brown
4. Forward bulwark lengthened
5. Smokestack lengthened black with orange ring
6. Nationality and name on both sides of the hull
7. Cannon VI camouflaged as deckhouse, painted dark grey
8. 2 pairs of cargo booms added, one pair aft of the bridge structure the second forward of the foremast.
9. Masts and cargo booms painted yellow
10. 2 lifeboats and davits removed; bulwark extended aft.
11. Dutch flag hoisted on the signal deck
Schiff 19 will remain hidden until 1.May and then resume raids in the North Sea the Seekriegslietung now plans to send the raider into the North Atlantic sometime in late May early June. Kapitan.z.S Hartmann wants to leave the North Sea and breakthrough into the North Atlantic by the end of April. So far Schiff 19 has sunk 97,195 grt of shipping plus one destroyer. In the coming days Hartmann and his officers will come to a decision on where to operate next.
