Arkona (ship, 1918)
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
.svg){kind=small}
The Arkona was originally called M 115 seized in service minesweeper type minesweeper in 1916 the German Imperial Navy and the Navy , which in 1935 in the Navy as a pilot boat Arkona and finally from 1941 as a minesweeper M 515 was used. It sank after a mine hit on May 21, 1944 northwest of the island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea .
Construction and technical data
The boat was still during the First World War in 1917 Atlas Werke AG in Bremen with the hull number 160 laid Kiel . It was there on July 12, 1918 as a minesweeper M 115 from the stack and was put into service on September 19 1918th The boat had a length of 57.80 m in the waterline and 59.30 m over all, was 7.40 m wide and had a maximum draft of 2.58 m . The water displacement was 525 t (construction displacement ) and 564 t (maximum). The armament consisted of a 10.5 cm gun on the forecastle and a machine gun on the stern, and up to 30 mines could be carried. Two 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines with a total of 1750 hp and two screws enabled a top speed of 16.0 knots . The bunker supply of 130 tons of coal yielded a range of 2,000 nautical miles at 14 knots cruising speed. The crew consisted of 51 men.
history
The boat did not have to be delivered to the victorious powers after the end of the First World War and served in the Reichsmarine until 1935. Then it was rebuilt and on October 1, 1935, it was put into service as a test boat with the name Arkona at the Sperrversuchskommando , where you can meet with the Development and testing of sea mines, detonators and clearing devices. The armament remained unchanged, but the crew was now 57 men.
During the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the Arkona , together with the four other test boats of the blocking test commandos ( Nautilus , Otto Braun , Pelikan and Sundevall ), was part of the naval forces, which was led by Captain Friedrich Ruge , the leader of the minesweepers East (FdM Ost), carried out mine search and security tasks in the Gdańsk Bay .
Arkona was also involved in the occupation of Denmark on April 9, 1940 . She was part of the warship group 9 under the leader of the outpost boats east (FdV Ost), sea captain Helmut Leissner on the Rugard , which transported troops to the occupation of Middelfart and the Belt Bridge to Denmark .
On June 28, 1941, the boat was renamed M 515 .
On May 21, 1944, the boat ran about eight nautical miles west-northwest of Fehmarn on a mine dropped by British aircraft and sank at the position 54 ° 33 '27 " N , 10 ° 45' 14" E in about 18 m depth.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Ruge on the leader boat T 196 also commands the four fleet attendants F 7 , F 8 , F 9 and F 10 , the 1st minesweeping flotilla and the 3rd clearing boat flotilla.
- ↑ The warship group 9 also included the test boat Otto Braun , the old minesweeper M 157 , the two clearing boats R 6 and R 7 , the outpost boats V 102 Cressida and V 103 Silvia , the submarine hunter UJ 172 and the naval tugs Passat and Monsun . ( http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-04.htm )
- ^ Message from the Kiel Waterways and Shipping Office dated June 9, 1956, published in the "Nachrichten für Seefahrer" 2189/56