10th clearing boat flotilla

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The 10th Räumbootsflottille was a naval unit of the German Navy during World War II .

The flotilla was set up in Cuxhaven in February and March 1942 with the eight boats R 175 - R 177 , R 179 - R 182 and R 184 of the type Räumboot 1937-43 and then moved in July 1942 to the English Channel to Ouistreham , from where it - as part of the 2nd Security Division - performed mining and security tasks. After the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, the flotilla was disbanded on August 22, 1944 because of its extensive destruction.

Escort ship of the flotilla was from 1943 to the 1941-42 R-boat escort vessel from the lip rebuilt and renamed former minesweeper M 546 (ex Taku , ex M 146 ). The chief of the flotilla was Kapitänleutnant (later Korvettenkapitän ) Herbert Nau.

Boats and whereabouts

number To the flotilla Whereabouts
R 175 Feb. 1942 1944 to the 17th R-Flotilla; 1945 to the GMSA (3rd mine clearing division in Copenhagen); 19 Nov. 1947 delivered to Denmark as MR 175 ; Wrecked in 1948
R 176 Feb. 1942 1944 to the 17th R-Flotilla; 1945 to the GMSA (3rd mine clearing division in Copenhagen); 19 Nov. 1947 delivered to Denmark as MR 176 ; Wrecked in 1948
R 177 Feb. 1942 1944 to the 13th R-Flotilla; Feb. 28, 1945 sunk near Stolpmünde
R 179 Feb. 1942 May 15, 1944 by a mine in front of Le Havre dropped
R 180 Feb. 1942 Sunk by British MTB near Fécamp on July 2, 1944
R 181 Feb. 1942 1944 to the 17th R-Flotilla, 1945 to the GMSA (3rd mine clearance division in Copenhagen); Delivered to Denmark on November 19, 1947 as MR 181
R 182 March 1942 15 June 1944 sunk in an air raid near Le Havre; lifted and repaired; Self- sunk on August 16, 1944 near Chatou on the Seine
R 184 April 1942 Sunk by British MGBs northwest of Calais on August 16, 1942
R 190 July 1942 1944 to the 12th R-Flotilla; Sunk in an air raid in the Strait of Otranto on May 20, 1944
R 213 Jan. 1943 Self-sunk on August 16, 1944 near Chatou on the Seine
R 217 June 1943 Self-sunk on August 16, 1944 near Chatou on the Seine
R 218 July 1943 1943–44 with the 4th R-Flotilla; 19 August 1944 in the battle with British MTBs in Cape d'Antifer dropped
R 219 August 1943 1944 to the 14th R-Flotilla; August 24, 1944 sunk by MTB and fighter-bomber attack when entering Dieppe
R 221 Sept 1943 Sunk in an air raid near Blainville-sur-Mer on June 6, 1944
R 222 October 1943 21 February 1944 to the east of mines Schleimünde dropped
R 224 Dec 1943 Sunk on 6 July 1944 after the explosion in Le Havre
R 234 Oct. 1943 1945 to the 25th R-Flotilla; 1945 to the GMSA; Extradited to the Soviet Union on October 26, 1945

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nerbert Nau, born April 8 1913 in Lüneburg ; † August 28, 1944 in Yvetot (France) in a car accident; awarded the Knight's Cross on July 11, 1944 .
  2. ^ German R-Boat "R 184"; Interrogation of Survivors ( Memento from December 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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