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AEF in RUSSIA

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Arkhangelsk

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British ship 'Kalyan' a hospital ship at Archangel, Russia, frozen in the ice for the winter - 1918 NARA165-ww-256C-005

Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG-165, Medical Dept. Hospital ships.

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USS Eagle boat No. 2 En route to Archangel, Russia 1919

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Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG-165, Navy - Unclassified and Miscellaneous

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Hungry Russian girl at American HQs Archangel, Russia 10-17-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Russian children begging for bread pose for movie operator, Archangel, Russia

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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American buying furs at a local store in Archangel, Russia 10-25-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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American guard dishing out rice to Bolshevik prisoners, Archangel, Russia 10-21-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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American soldiers making a purchase items at open market, Archangel 10-21-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Bolshevik prisoners under American guard, Archangel, Russia 10-15-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Camp Michigan on the outskirts of Archangel, Russia 11-3-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Fishing 'Smacks' unloading at Archangel, Russia 10-25-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Russian boy waiting for unloading of Bristish ship, Archangel 10-27-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Russian carts transport supplies from River Dwna port to Allied warehouses, Archangel 10-27-18 NARA111-SC-39141-ac

Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Russian woman drawing water at Archangel 10-27-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Russian women unloading cart of coal, Archangel 10-27-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Unloading oatmeal from HMS Seattle at Smolny docks, Archangel 10-27-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Warehouses of 339th Inf. storing oatmeal at Archangel, Russia 10-27-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

Note by the photographer.

 

The woman on the left crowded into the picture as she said the Chinese man was her husband.

 

He noted that Chinese workers were used to build the railroad and

then had no way to

get home and

had intermarried in Archangel.

 

The Russian boy

to the right seems to have just been in the market that morning.

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People at the open market in archangel 10-21-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

HMS Seattle at Archangel, Russia 10-27-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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" Following the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 Dec 1914 the German light cruiser SMS Dresdene scaped via Cape Horn and sought refuge in the inlets around Tierra del Fuego and the Chile an coast before being scuttled in the Juan Fernandez group of islands on 14 Mar 1915.

 

Between 8 Dec 1914 and 14 Mar 1915 Dresden was perpetually short of coal and German agents sought to charter neutral vessels

in order to try to resupply her.

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The Gladstone, Josephine, Eleanore Woermann, Bangor and Gottia were all chartered for this purpose.

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A mutiny broke out aboard the Gladstone when she reached Pernambuco.

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The Josephine was captured by HMS Carnarvon on 6 Jan 1915 and arrived at Stanley with a prize crew on 9Jan.

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Eleanore Woermann was sunk by HMAS Australia off the Falkland Islands on 6 Jan.

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Bangor was captured by HMS Bristol and arrived at Stanley with a prize crew on 18 Mar, while Gottia was too late to be of assistance to Dresden.

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Josephine was subsequently registered as the British vessel Grahamland and sailed for Victoria, British Columbia, on 7 Jul under Captain Weatherill

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SS Bangor was built in 1911 by Wood, Skinner & Co for A/S Bangor in Norway and operated under the Norwegian flag.

 

On 3 Feb 1915 she sailed from Baltimore under Captain Hansen with a cargo of 8,000 tons of coal, intending to rendezvous with Dresden in the Pacific off Talcahuano, Chile, but only managed to reach the Straits of Magellan before capture by HMS Bristol.

 

Whilst at Stanley her name was changed to Seattle and on 13 Jul 1915 she sailed with a prize crew under Captain Pollard, bound for Sierra Leone

with her cargo of coal.

 

In the shipping records she is recorded as HMS Seattle, possibly because there was a British prize crew aboard.

 

Subsequently she was taken to Liverpool, serving as a collier, transport, and latterly as a stores carrier for the American forces until 1919, when she was sold to the Union Government of South Africa.

 

In 1927 she was sold to Japan, renamed Toyokawa Maru, and was mined and sunk on 5 Jul 1927"

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Source : FORCES POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY JOURNAL. Whole Number 286

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