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Sunday 25 February 2018

Turkey and Siam wanted to let built warships by Japanese shipyards according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad 1934 no. 7

An item referred to the Jap. Chr. dated 8 November 1934 reporting that Turkey asked Japan for a tender for delivering 6 submarines and 2 submarine mother ships. It was however doubtful if Japan could accept such an order while all shipyards had more as enough work.(1) Recently asked Siam tenders for a tanker and a minelayer. The Japanese press mentioned an increasing number of requests of foreign powers for building merchant and warships which was a clear prove of the quality of Japanese shipbuilding.

Note
1. The German shipyard Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany received orders for building the four submarines of the Ay-class Saldiray, Atilay and Batiray with the Yildiray built by the Gölcuk Naval Shipyard using a modified Type IX submarine design. The British shipyard Vickers-Armstrong built 5 submarines which all were taken over by the British Royal navy in 1940.