Bali (ship, 1928)
.jpg) The Bali in Northern Norway, July 1942
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The Bali was a Norwegian station wagon that was requisitioned by the German Navy during World War II and used as a mine clearance ship. The originally English ship ended its career in 1955 on a rock in the Bay of Bengal .
Construction and technical data
The ship was built in 1928 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. in Wallsend in Newcastle upon Tyne with the hull number built in 1268 and ran on March 6, 1928 on the slipway Neptune Yard in the district Low Walker launched . It was delivered to the Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Co. in Newcastle in April 1928 and entered service under the name Alnwick . The ship was 77.42 m long and 11.76 m wide, had a draft of 4.37 m and was measured with 1406 GRT and 610 NRT. The load capacity was 1449 dwt . A three-cylinder, triple expansion steam engine from Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson generated 392 nominal horsepower and allowed speeds of up to 14 knots via one screw .
history
The Alnwick ran liner service between Newcastle and Rotterdam until 1932 , then between Newcastle and London until 1935 . This service could not be sustained against the emerging competition from buses , and the ship was sold in 1935 to the Norwegian joint stock company Ganger Rolf, a subsidiary of the shipping company Fred. Olsen & Co. in Kristiania / Oslo . It was renamed Bali and used in the liner service from Oslo and Kristiansand to Rotterdam and back.
After the occupation of Norway by the German Wehrmacht , the Bali was confiscated by the Navy in July 1940. She was rebuilt, equipped with ten small motor pinasses for mine clearance and several anti-aircraft guns and on March 26, 1941 under the designation MRS 3 and her previous name as a so-called mine clearance ship, actually as the mother ship of ten mine clearance shipments, in service in the admiral's area of command on the north coast of Norway posed. The ship itself did not carry out any mine clearance work, but instead deployed the small pinnaces carried on deck for this purpose, for whose crews it served as a residential ship . In addition to mine clearance tasks , the Bali was also used as an escort in Northern Norway. On November 7, 1941, she escaped a torpedo attack by the British submarine Trident north of the Laksefjord at 71 ° 6 ' N , 26 ° 57' E , east of the Northern Cape .
At the time of the surrender of the German forces in Norway on May 8, 1945, the ship was in Sandnessjøen . It was given to its rightful owner, Fred. Olsen & Co., returned and then used on the Oslo-Newcastle route until 1951, then on the Oslo-Antwerp route.
In 1952 the ship was sold to the state-owned Burmese Shipping Board in Burma , which renamed it Pyidawtha . With its home port of Rangoon , the Pyidawtha transported general cargo and passengers in the Burmese coastal shipping in the Gulf of Bengal . On May 6, 1955, on a journey from Rangoon to Sittwe , she ran not far from Kyaukpyu at 19 ° 27 ' N , 93 ° 31' E on rocky ground and had to be abandoned as a total loss.
