Ahrensburg (ship, 1939)
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The Ahrensburg was a German refrigerated ship that was requisitioned by the Navy in December 1939 and used as a ship for the submarine school flotilla in Wesermünde , after the German invasion of Norway as a transporter to southern Norway, then as an auxiliary ship and target ship for submarine school flotillas in the Baltic Sea and finally as a supplier by the German Army Norway . After the war it continued to fly under the Norwegian , then Taiwanese and finally the Panamanian flag until 1968 .
Construction and technical data
The ship was launched on 23 March 1939 at Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen with the hull number 647 and the name Prinsdal for A / S Rendal (Moltzau & Christensen) in Oslo from the stack , but was already in April by the Hamburg shipping company Harald Schuldt & Co. bought and completed as Ahrensburg . The delivery took place on June 6, 1939.
The Ahrensburg was 102.8 m long and 13.9 m wide and had a draft of 4.9 m . She was measured with 2988 GRT and 1714 NRT and had a load capacity of 2604 tdw . The ship had four holds with a total capacity of almost 5000 m³ as well as two masts fore and aft with a total of eight booms . Two compression refrigeration systems from Sabroe with a capacity of 140,000 kcal per hour cooled the cargo hold to a constant temperature of 0 ° C. The refrigerant was ammonia (NH³).
A 10-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine from Burmeister & Wain (type 10-50VF-90) with 4,200 PSe resulted in a speed of 15.5 knots . The crew numbered 34 men.
history
The Ahrensburg (call sign DKAO) was on 10 July 1939, which was founded in 1937 subsidiary "fruit shipping company Harald Schuldt & Co." transferred. With her home port in Hamburg, she served as a fruit transporter from South America to Germany. Her last journey before the start of the Second World War began on August 13, 1939 in Santos ( Brazil ) and went via Las Palmas in the Canary Islands to Hamburg, where she arrived on August 31.
On September 25, she was recorded by the Navy Service in Hamburg and, after corresponding modifications, in December, she was assigned to the submarine training flotilla in Wesermünde as a ship and target ship . On April 12, 1940, in the course of the German invasion of Norway, it was used as a so-called express transporter for personnel and material transports to southern Norway. On 13 April, she ran in from torpedo boats secured convoy with Togo and the Angel castle with 2,000 Army soldiers from Frederikshavn to Oslo , which was reached the next day. Her second supply trip went on April 20 in convoy with the Togo and the Pionier and secured by five torpedo boats, two fleet attendants and nine mine clearance boats from Frederikshavn to Larvik and Oslo. In the Skagerrak the convoy was attacked unsuccessfully with torpedoes by the British submarine Triad , and the Togo and the Ahrensburg made it safely to Larvik, the pioneers to Oslo. On April 21, the Ahrensburg and the Angelburg again brought 2500 troops to Larvik; a torpedo attack by the submarine Tetrarch on the convoy on its return journey to Fredrikshavn on April 23 was unsuccessful. The Ahrensburg continued to commute between Frederikshavn and Larvik until May 9, 1940 .
Then she was sent to Gotenhafen as a destination ship and ship to the 27th U-Flotilla . On October 1, 1941, she moved to the 25th U-Flotilla in Danzig in the same function , on October 1, 1942 to the 24th U-Flotilla in Memel and on October 1, 1943 to the 23rd U-Flotilla in Danzig. On February 1, 1944, it was recorded by the Danzig Navy , then handed over to the Stettin Navy , and on May 21, after appropriate dismantling, transferred to the Norwegian Army High Command as a refrigerated ship . On January 15, 1945 she ran aground off Kristiansand , was badly damaged and had to be towed into port for repairs. The ship, which was still not ready for action, was lying there at the end of the war when it became British spoils of war on May 9, 1945.
On September 20, 1945, still lying in Kristiansand, it was confiscated by the Norwegian government as a reparation payment and handed over to the State Shipping Directorate in Marvik on September 25 . This assigned it, renamed Asnes and registered in Oslo, to the shipping company Kornelius Olsen in Stavanger for ship management. On January 13, 1946, the ship management changed to A / S Thor Dahl in Sandefjord , which sent the ship in urgent need of repair to the shipyard in Oskarshamn ( Sweden ) on January 25 . After the work was completed, the ship was renamed Thornes (callsign LLLQ) and put into motion. On March 27, 1947 it was returned to the government and on April 13th it was sold to A / S Titchfield (manager Alf Torgersen) from Oslo and renamed the Mona Lisa .
In 1956 it was sold on to the Italian shipping company Soc. Siciliana Servici Marittimi in Palermo , who renamed the ship Somalia . In 1965 the ship was sold to the Great Pacific Navigation Co. in Keelung ( Taiwan ) and renamed Chengchang . As early as 1966 it was sold to the Chung Lien Navigation Co. in Panama , which renamed it Chung Thai . In November 1968 it was finally sold to Kaoshiung (Taiwan) for demolition and scrapped there from February 1969.
Web links
- Ahrensburg, at www.historisches-marinearchiv.de
- MS Prinsdal (1), at skipshistorie.net
- M / S Prinsdal, at www.sjohistorie.no
- 1946 Thornes, at thor-dahl.lardex.net
- Target ship Ahrensburg, at www.shipsnostalgia.com (with photo)
- MS Prinsdal (1), at skipshistorie.net (with photo as Mona Lisa )
Footnotes
- ↑ Norddeutsche Reederei H. Schuldt ( Memento from September 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sjøfartsdirektoratet in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry ( http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/data/forvaltning/enhet/2012/endringshistorie )