8/5/1939 Kattegat 5th day at sea
Schiff 35 steamed east into the Baltic at 17 knots during this period her funnel was painted black with a red band and a hammer/sickle added the following day she stopped to paint her hull black. FregKapitan.z.S Hartmann exited the Baltic and is now making for Jan Mayern Island to meet a tanker. In the meantime there is nothing for the ship and her 445 man crew to do but maintain a low profile.
She now sails as the Soviet freighter KOSTROMA 10,300 grt in ballast from from Murmansk to Iceland