7/1/1939 Baltic, Kiel, 00:00 hrs. Kriegstagebuch Nr.2 (1st day at sea)
At 00:00 hrs. the starboard watch was called, anchor raised, and Schiff 35 steamed quietly out of Kiel Harbor. Hartmann has been ordered to steam into the Baltic and to change the ship’s disguise. She departs as “Naval Transport 10”. In the Baltic Hartmann will have the ship disguised as a Soviet freighter from Arkhangelsk after that Schiff 35 will turn around and begin to work her way up to the North Greenland Sea.