Blücher (ship, 1913)
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The Blücher was a German fish steamer that served as an auxiliary minesweeper and escort boat in the Imperial Navy during the First World War . She was the type ship of the Blücher type, of which a total of 48 units had been produced by 1920. The steamer was named after the Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher .
history
The Blücher was used from November 1913 with the fishing license plate PG (Preußisch Geestemünde ) 178 for the Geestemünde-based company FA Pust in deep sea fishing .
Apparently shortly after the beginning of the First World War, she was taken over by the Imperial Navy within the scope of the War Service Act and from December 30, 1914, she was used as an auxiliary minesweeper in the auxiliary minesweeping flotilla of the North Sea, and from 1917 in the 2nd escort flotilla. As early as November 26, 1918, just two weeks after the Compiègne armistice , it was returned to its owner so that it could be used again for deep-sea fishing.
In February 1932 the steamer passed into the ownership of the Kuhr brothers, but apparently kept its fishing license number. The Blücher sank on January 23, 1933 by leaking from the Vestmann Islands off Iceland ; as far as is known, there were no staff losses.
As far as is known, the Blücher was originally a single vehicle. After the beginning of the First World War it became a model for the Blücher type of the Imperial Navy, of which a total of 47 other vehicles were built up to 1920, almost all of which were used in the Navy during the First World War as outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, escort boats or other types of auxiliary ships ( e.g. war pilot steamer ) were used. After the Armistice of Compiègne and the Peace Treaty of Versailles, they were all returned to the deep-sea fisheries or taken away, but some of them were used again by the Navy as auxiliary ships in the Second World War .
Sister ships
Forward , Henry P. Newman , Guido Möhring , Senator Sachse , Fisheries Director Lübbert , Gneisenau , Emma Oetken , Seeadler , Maria Sindt , Peter Deuss , Emma Engel , Geo Plate , Roland , Greta , Scharnhorst , Anna , Seydlitz , Lützow , President Rose , Wümme , Iceland ( missing off Iceland since February 24, 1921 ), Caroline Köhne , Bremerhaven , Hamme , Delme , Bussard , Donar , Mayor Pauli , Senator Wessels , Hermann Löns , Fritz Reuter , Claus Groth , Admiral von Schröder , Graf Spee , Falkenhayn , Duisburg , Kontreadmiral Maas , Elberfeld , Barmen , Essen , Grand Admiral von Köster , Admiral von Knorr , Admiral von Thomsen , Admiral Graf Baudissin (1934 Chinese Lien Yung ; further whereabouts unclear).
The banks of the Spree , Limburgia and Elberfeld were not launched until 1918–1920 and were no longer delivered to the Navy.
Illustration
A sketch of the Blücher type by Franz Mrva is shown in Gröner, Volume 8/1, p. 232.
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 , Volume 8/1: river vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats , auxiliary minesweepers , coastal protection associations , Bonn 1993, pp. 226-232. ISBN 3-7637-4807-5