Adolf Lüderitz (ship, 1939)
.jpg) Model of the Adolf Lüderitz (with speed boats)
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The Adolf Lüderitz was a speedboat escort of the German Navy . It was named after the Bremen merchant Adolf Lüderitz (1834–1886), whose land acquisition in 1883 in what is now Namibia led to the establishment of the German protected area German South West Africa the following year .
prehistory
For their growing number of speedboats , the Reichsmarine and later the Kriegsmarine needed correspondingly equipped escort ships for each flotilla, which served the boat crews as accommodation and the boats as fuel, torpedo, mine, ammunition, fresh water and food depot. Initially, from 1927 onwards, the old North Sea tender , which had been converted accordingly , was replaced by the newly built Tsingtau in 1934 . In January 1939 the Tanga was added as a second ship. In 1938 the Navy ordered two more, but considerably larger and faster, S-boat escort ships, the Adolf Lüderitz and her sister ship Carl Peters .
Construction and technical data
The Adolf Lüderitz was in the 1938 AG Neptun in Rostock laid down on, ran on 20 February 1939 by the stack , and was on 11 June 1940 the command of Lieutenant asked Möbes escorts vessels of third Schnellbootsflottille into service. She was 114 meters long (103.6 m in the waterline ) and 14.5 m wide, had a draft of 4.34 m and displaced 2900 tons (standard) and 3600 tons (maximum). Two double-acting MAN four-stroke diesel engines with Vulcan gearboxes gave it 12,400 hp and a top speed of 23 knots . The range of action was 12,000 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 15 kn. The ship was equipped with four 10.5-cm guns , a 4 cm Bofors - Flak armed, six 3.7-cm Flak and eight 2-cm Flak. The crew numbered 225 men.
Calls
The area of operation of the 3rd Flotilla covered the sea area from the Netherlands to the English Channel . When the flotilla was relocated to the Mediterranean Sea , the Adolf Lüderitz came in November 1941 under her new commander, Korvettenkapitän d. R. Erasmi, on the newly established 8th speedboat flotilla, which operated in the Kristiansand , Stavanger and Vardø area in Norway . On June 24, 1942, the ship was assigned to the 6th Schnellbootflotille and stayed in Norway. On January 17, 1943, the Adolf Lüderitz was attacked off Ålesund by the Norwegian submarine Uredd , but the torpedoes missed their target. Finally, since November 1943 under Kapitänleutnant Gauland, the ship was assigned to the 1st Schnellboot-Schule Flotilla, which was also used in Norway. On April 14, 1945, the ship was damaged by bombs and rockets in an air raid in Jössingfjord . On the day of the German surrender (May 8, 1945) the ship was in Stavanger, where it fell into British hands.
After the war, the Adolf Lüderitz was initially used in the German mine clearance service as an escort ship of the 4th mine clearance division in Kristiansand (German naval service in Norway). In 1946 the ship was delivered as spoils of war to the Soviet Union , in whose navy it served under the name Pajserd until at least 1964.
literature
- Erich Gröner: The ships of the German Navy and their whereabouts 1939-1945 , JF Lehmanns, Munich, 1976, ISBN 3-469-00297-5
- Hans-H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German Warships , 10 volumes, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, ISBN 3836497433 , ISBN 978-3836497435
- Volkmar Kühn: Schnellboats in use 1939-45 , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 3rd edition, 1997, ISBN 3879434506 , ISBN 978-3879434503
- Siegfried Breyer: Special and special ships of the Kriegsmarine (I), Marine-Arsenal Volume 30, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Eggolsheim-Bammersdorf, 1995, ISBN 3-7909-0523-2
Web links
- http://www.deutsche-kriegsschiffe.de/Schiffe/schnellbootbegleitschiffe/luederitz.htm
- http://www.deutsche-kriegsschiffe.de/Schiffe/listealpha.htm#C
- Escort ship "Adolf Lüderitz", at Förderverein Museums-Schnellboot eV ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )