Bismarck (ship, 1914-1917)

Bismarck

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type Outpost boat Shipyard G. Seebeck AG, Geestemünde Build number 98 Commissioning February 23, 1914 Whereabouts Sunk on March 29, 1917

Machine system machine Steam engine

The Bismarck was a former fish steamer used by the Imperial Navy as an outpost boat and submarine trap , which sank in 1917 after a mine hit .

The ship

Leaving outpost boats in 1914

The fish steamer Bismarck was built with the construction number 98 by G. Seebeck AG in Geestemünde for the "Deutsche Dampffischereigesellschaft Nordsee" in Nordenham and delivered on February 23, 1914. The ship was marked "ON 73".

During the First World War , the ship was requisitioned by the Imperial Navy and armed and used as an outpost boat. In 1917 it was used with the Ems base to combat enemy submarines as part of the special group of the North Sea outpost flotilla under the leadership of Lieutenant zur See Viktor Schlieder (April 29, 1889 - March 29, 1917). The Bismarck was the guide boat and Schlieder was its commander . On April 27, 1916, at 2:00 a.m., she and the outpost fishers Kehdingen and Dithmarschen were involved in a battle with unknown British naval forces on the Dogger Bank. She was hit by a torpedo , but it did not explode.

On March 29, 1917, the ship ran into a mine and sank. There were only three survivors; 25 crew members were killed.

literature

• Otto Groos: The War in the North Sea ( Der Krieg zur See 1914-1918 , Vol. 5, published by the Marine-Archiv), Berlin 1925, pp. 155–157.
• Erich Gröner u. a .: The German warships 1815-1945 , vol. 8/1: river vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats , auxiliary minesweepers , coastal protection associations , Munich 1993, p. 228.
• Walter Gladisch : The War in the North Sea. From June 1916 to spring 1917 (vol. 6 of the series Der Krieg zur See 1914–1918 ), Berlin 1937.

Web links

• Bismarck's fallen list at denkmalprojekt.org from January 2016

Footnotes

1. ↑ List of ships of the Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser AG ( Memento from March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ ON = Oldenburg Nordenham
3. Jump up ↑ the flag
4. ↑ After Schlieder's death, the special group was continued by Leutnant zur See Heinrich Woldag (1892–1940), who later became the commander of the heavy cruiser Blücher .