The Belmonte ran in 1914 on the shipyard of Stocks & Kolbe in Kiel from the stack and was bereedert from the company GW Bley in Kiel. Their size was 193 GRT or approx. 315 tons . The length was 37.51 m, the width 6.79 m, the draft 2.07 m. They appear to have had an auxiliary motor that her independent of wind a speed of 4 knots allowed.
On August 30, 1916 she was put into service with the designation auxiliary ship B as a submarine trap. Her code name was Antje , the legendary home port of Papenburg . For this purpose, it was armed with two obsolete, outdated, 10.5 cm caliber rapid-fire guns and four concealed machine guns . Her crew as an auxiliary ship was 23 men. Nothing is known about the details of their use so far. She was decommissioned in December 1917 because she had an unusually large drift due to her shallow draft and was unsuitable for such operations .
In 1920 it was delivered to Brazil or sold there , presumably as spoils of war under the Versailles Treaty . She sank on December 18, 1941 in the port of São Paulo after the collision with the Norma , about which no information is available.
Illustrations
Gröner reproduces a side elevation by W. Kramer, Fritz Otto Busch reproduces a photo with a view of the deck showing one of the guns without camouflage and some crew members.
literature
Erich Gröner u. a .: The German warships 1815-1945 , vol. 8/2: river vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats , auxiliary minesweepers , coastal protection associations , Munich 1993, p. 533f.
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