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The name of the ship was "Saint Nicholas":
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/4075

Italian "PENSIERO"!

<t>I believe the names are often grouped according to the country of origin of the ships:<br/> ex Japanese: flowers<br/> ex American: Indians<br/> ex Icelandic: apes<br/> but then there are others were it's difficult or impossible to find something common:<br/> ex Greek: "Amiral de Rigny", "Colibri"...

1934 Italian "Pensiero".
1938 Italian "Falco", Compagnia Italiana Ricuperi Marittimi, La Spezia.
12.11.42 hit a mine and sunk en voyage Bengasi - Tripoli near Ras Taiunes

Launched in 1911, completed in 1912!
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/43675
To add: seized by the Germans in 1943 and scuttled at Genua 24.04.45, but raised and repaired

<r>And an excellent picture of her as "Catherine Schiaffino" (even if it's wronly identified as the CS of 1930)<br/> <URL url="http://www.marine-marchande.net/Jourlejour/AujourleJour-131.htm"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.marine-marchande.net/Jourlej ... ur-131.htm">http://www.marine-marchande.net/Jou...

<r>Merci beaucoup!<br/> But there were at least two yachts named "Vanikoro", the other one was the former British "Sea Fay", built in 1902 by Lobnitz & Co., Renfrew, 164 GRT. This ship - while in 1930 still registered as "Sea Fay" for Col. J. L. O'Connor of Glasgow - was renamed several times in...

<t>May be you are right, but the number "Q 86" (and not "Q 086") I took from H. Le Masson, Les Sous-Marins Francais.<br/> And yes, since the fifties the French submarines had the NATO (OTAN)-numbers written on, but nonetheless they were constructed with a Q-number. Just to name one: "Q 259" is "Agos...

No, there were other ships numbered with Q, too:
all French submarines (at least until the seventies) got a Number with Q!
Q 86 was the "Arago" launched at Toulon 29.06.12.

Bien cordialement
Klaus Günther

Merci pour votre clarifications.
Cordialement
Klaus Günther