Altair (ship, 1922)

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Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (trade flag) German Empire
other ship names

DPK 14 (1942)
VS 216 (1943)

Ship type Fish logger
Shipyard Jos. L. Meyer , Papenburg
Build number 341
Launch May 1922
Ship dimensions and crew
length
30.06 m ( Lüa )
width 7.05 m
Draft Max. 3.32 m
measurement 172.60 GRT
79.76 NRT
 
crew Wrecked in 1962
Machine system
machine Steam engine
Machine
performance 		100 hp (74 kW)
Machinery from 1950
machine Diesel engine

The Altair was a former fish logger that was used by the Luftwaffe as an auxiliary air traffic control ship in the Second World War and then by the Navy as a security boat.

Construction and technical data

The sailing logger Altair (AE 56) ran in May 1922 with hull number 341 at the Jos shipyard . L. Meyer in Papenburg from the stack . The owner was the Dollart AG herring fishery in Emden . The ship was 30.06 m long and 7.05 m wide, had a draft of 3.20-3.32 m and was measured with 172.60 GRT and 79.76 NRT . It had an (auxiliary) steam engine of 100 HP from Christiansen & Meyer. The ship was used in the North Sea and the North Atlantic in the herring fishery .

history

Air Force Ship

The ship was requisitioned by the Luftwaffe on April 17, 1940 and assigned as an auxiliary air traffic control ship to the Luftzeuggruppe See in Kiel . From May 27, 1940, it served at the Sea Emergency District Office (SNB) III and was stationed in Wilhelmshaven .

Auxiliary warship of the Kriegsmarine

On April 26, 1941, the ship was transferred to the Navy and assigned to the blocking command in Kiel. On July 1, 1942, it joined the Pomeranian Coast Guard Flotilla as an auxiliary warship DPK 14 . When this was renamed the 2nd Safety Flotilla on October 1, 1943, the ship was given the new designation outpost safety boat VS 216 .

post war period

On September 23, 1945, the ship was returned to its pre-war owners. In 1950 it was given a 240 hp diesel engine from MWM , and on December 14, 1950, when the Dollart herring fishery and the Großer Kurfürst Heringsfischerei AG merged in Emden, the latter was acquired.

The ship was sold for demolition in November 1962.

literature

  • Dieter Jung, Berndt Wenzel, Arno Abendroth: Ships and boats of the German sea pilots 1912-1976 , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition, 1977.
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung and Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 - Volume 7: The ships and boats of the German sea pilots . Bernard & Graefe, Munich, 1982.
  • Hans-Jürgen Abert: The German Merchant Navy 1870–2000: The résumés of steam and motor ships over 100 GRT. Self-published, Ratzeburg, 2000.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ DPK = Germany Pomeranian Coast
  2. ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/sichverb/sifl-ost.htm