Hi pica,
I was wondering that myself. Is it for a secondary anchor?

Hello,
A minor detail: Can anybody explain why she has got a second hawse pipe at the bow?
Maierform bow by the way...
Thanks for posting Paul
Jürgen

IMO or Miramar number who cares as long as they are grouped together on the Shipspotting site that is what matters ! (that is if everybody is going to use this number of course) I think these 5.......... numbers have been used before here just to facilitate the system of getting all the photo's of a certain ship together.

Does anyone know what the very first IMO number issued was?

S.S. Donau, 1929, 9026 ton Passenger and cargo. Completed June 1929 by Deutsche Schiff und Machinenbau for Norddeutsche Lloyd. Sunk by Norwegian saboteurs in the Oslofyord 17 January 1945. Raised and scrapped at Bremerhaven 1952. A good story about her WW II exploits may be found on Wikipedia.

Who knows anything about this ship? Your nice comments are beyond the level I would like to participate within this blog. IMO ???? This is a ship, a very low quality photo though, which sank in 1945 at Oslo Fjord due to a mine. IMO didn't exist at that time, dear friends of the tele-lens-photography. Perhaps you may agree with me that it's not a crude oil tanker or a submarine.

Adenanthos: the number you quote is NOT a LR/IMO number. The ship was scrapped long before the numbering system started. 5606959 is the ID number of the Miramar ship index site

Also, the seams running along the hull - fascinating handiwork and all those rivets too !!

Great images of yesteryear Paul !! Can't you just smell the steam !!