Angelburg (ship, 1938)
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The Angelburg was a German refrigerated ship that was requisitioned by the Navy in December 1939 . She initially served as a by- ship and target ship for the submarine school flotilla in Warnemünde , after the German invasion of Norway as a transporter to southern Norway, then again as a by-ship and target ship for a submarine school flotilla in the Baltic Sea and finally for evacuation from Refugees across the Baltic Sea. After the war, the ship sailed under the British flag until 1962.
Construction and technical data
The ship ran on June 4, 1938 on the Öresundsvarvet in Landskrona ( Sweden ) with the hull number 50 and the name Viator (call sign LJYG) for the Norwegian shipping company Skibs A / S Viator (CH Sørensen & Sønner) in Arendal from the stack . The delivery took place on September 24, 1938.
The ship was 102.51 m long and 13.94 m wide and had a draft of 4.5 m . It was measured with 3069 GRT and 1714 NRT and had a load capacity of 2575 tdw . It had four cargo holds with a total capacity of almost 5000 m³ as well as two masts, fore and aft, with a total of eight cargo booms .
A 9-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine from Burmeister & Wain with 4,450 hp produced a speed of 16 knots . The crew numbered 40 men.
history
Pre-war period
The ship was on 19 April 1939 by the Hamburg shipping company bought and Harald Schuldt & Co. as on April 21, Angelburg registered (call sign DJZU). On July 10, 1939 it was transferred to the subsidiary "Fruchtreederei Harald Schuldt & Co." founded in 1937 . With its home port in Hamburg, it served as a fruit transporter from South America to Germany. His last voyage before the start of the Second World War began on August 4, 1939 in Santos ( Brazil ) and went via Las Palmas on the Canary Islands to Hamburg, where the ship arrived on August 24.
Kriegsmarine support ship
On September 25, 1939, the fishing castle was recorded by the Hamburg Navy Service and, after appropriate modifications, it was relocated to Warnemünde as a ship and target ship for submarine training . 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 Ahrensburg with 2,000 Army soldiers from Frederikshavn to Oslo , which was reached the next day. On April 15, she ran again from Frederikshavn to Oslo, this time together with the submarine support ship Saar and again secured by torpedo boats; a torpedo attack by the British submarine Shark in the early afternoon was unsuccessful. As a result, the Angelburg shuttled at least four times with army troops and supplies between Frederikshavn and Larvik until May 9 , mostly together with the Ahrensburg . On April 23, they escaped a torpedo attack by the British submarine Tetrarch on their way back to Fredrikshavn .
On May 9, 1940, the Angelburg was assigned to the 24th U-Flotilla , a training flotilla , in Memel . There she collided on November 11, 1941 during a nocturnal target practice in the Baltic Sea at about 55 ° 27 ' N , 20 ° 24' E with the submarine U 580 , which then sank; 12 men of his crew were killed.
On February 28, 1944, the Angelburg was assigned to the Kriegsmarinedienststelle (KMD) Hamburg, but only decommissioned on June 13th by the 24th U-Flotilla and transferred to the KMD Danzig for transfer to the KMD Hamburg. On June 16, 1944, the planned dismantling of the refrigerated ship began in Kiel , but this was not fully completed because the ship was evacuated at the end of July 1944 during the evacuation of mostly women, children and old people from Memel and the Memelland , the first large refugee transport from one German Baltic Sea port . In addition to the fishing castle , the Navy used the training ship Nordland and the submarine escort ship Lech and the maritime transport department of the Navy used the motor ships Goya , Heinz Horn , Messina , Weilheim , Wega and Wolta , which by mid-August had around 50,000 people from Memelland via Pillau to Danzig and Gotenhafen . In addition, the Angelburg also brought large quantities of butter, bacon and meat from the Memel cold store to the west. Until February 1945, the ship continued to be used in the transport of refugees across the Baltic Sea.
Post-war years
On May 7, 1945, the Angelburg was in the Flensburg Fjord , where it fell into British hands and was then used from June 4 to accommodate the wounded. It was finally confiscated by Great Britain as spoils of war, transferred to Wilhelmshaven on September 13, 1945 and to Great Britain on September 24, and taken possession of by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) on September 25 . The MoWT handed over the ship, now renamed Empire Wharfe , to Kaye, Son & Co. from London on October 6th in Grangemouth , who used the ship to transport bananas from West Africa to England. After several accident-free journeys on December 31, 1946, on the journey with bananas from Victoria ( Cameroon ) to Liverpool , a fire broke out in the engine room near Lagos ( Nigeria ) , which spread to the rear cargo holds. The Empire Wharfe was towed to Lagos and aground there on January 2, 1947 in Badagry Creek . The cargo holds and engine room were under water. On January 6th, the ship was made buoyant and then repaired. On September 25, 1947 it was sold to the reefer shipping company Elders & Fyffes Ltd. , London, sold and renamed Zent (III). 15 years of routine service followed until the ship was sold for demolition in 1962. On July 2, 1962, it arrived in Bruges ( Belgium ) in the tow of the Belgian tug Ocean Bull (1944, 487 GRT) , where it was scrapped at Van Heyghen Freres .
literature
- Arnold Kludas , Ralf Witthohn: The German reefer ships . Koehler, Herford, 1981, ISBN 3-7822-0248-1 .
- Karl-Heinz Hochhaus: Deutsche Kühlschiffahrt (1902–1995) , Hauschild, Bremen, 1996, ISBN 3-931785-11-4 .
Web links
- Angelburg, at the Historical Naval Archive
- Target Ship Angelburg, at www.shipsnostalgia.com (with photo as target ship)
- Empire Wharfe, at www.shipsnostalgia.com (with photo)
- Angelburg & Ahrensburg, at www.shipspotting.com (with photo of the two ships)
- Angelburg, at www.shipspotting.com (with photo)
Footnotes
- ↑ According to another source it was 1756 NRT and 3506 tdw ( http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/909114/title/target-ship-angelburg/cat/518 ).
- ↑ According to http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2610497 , http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2614941 and http: //www.shipspotting. com / gallery / photo.php? lid = 2610497 the engine delivered 3,200 bhp .
- ↑ Norddeutsche Reederei H. Schuldt ( Memento of the original dated September 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Memel/Geschichte#Evakuierung_ab_Juli_1944
