11. Weather Bureau personnel stationed on weather ships were asked voluntarily to accept the assignment. 12. "Coburg " was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine in 1940 and converted to a weather ship . 13. The target was " M�nchen ", one of the weather ships operating in the area. 14. She was assigned to weather ship duty in 1943, which continued through until March 1946. 15. The agreement of the use of weather ships by the international community ended in 1985. 16. The agreement of the use of weather ships by the international community ended in 1990. 17. She was stationed between Spitsbergen and the east coast of Greenland, serving as a weather ship . 18. She was the last remaining weather ship in the world, maintained by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. 19. Serving as a weather ship , she continued in this role until scrapped in the late 1950s. 20. A weather ship is a ship stationed in mid-ocean to make meteorological observations for weather forecasting.
