Bordeaux (ship, 1912)
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The Bordeaux was a French canal ferry that was captured by the Navy after the German occupation of France , initially intended as a troop transport and finally equipped as a hospital ship in 1944 and put into service as such.
Construction and technical data
The ship was in 1912 with the hull number 211 on the shipyard of Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire (ACL) in Saint-Nazaire built and in the same year by the Chemins de Fer de l'Etat put into service, the 1938 in the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français rose. It was 63.65 m long and 8.5 m wide, had a 3.68 m draft and was measured at 774 GRT . The machine system consisted of two steam boilers and two three-cylinder triple expansion steam engines, developed up to 1500 PSi and enabled a speed of 14 knots via two shafts and propellers . The crew numbered 20 men.
history
The Bordeaux was the second canal ferry of this name and was used on the English Channel route Dieppe - Newhaven , which was operated jointly by the Chemins de Fer de l'Etat and the English London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSC). Home port was Dieppe.
During the German occupation of France in June 1940, the Bordeaux fell into German hands and was subordinated to the navy chief Saint-Malo as a troop transport for the Seelöwe company , the planned invasion of England. Since the invasion was never carried out, the ship was practically unused in port for a long time. In 1944 it was converted into a hospital ship and put into service on June 29, 1944 as a so-called small hospital ship. In the early afternoon of September 1, 1944, the Bordeaux was stopped by the American destroyer escort Maloy on the voyage from Saint Helier on the Channel Island of Jersey to the island of Cézembre north of Saint-Malo and prevented from continuing until the British destroyer in the evening Ulysses arrived and Bordeaux in already by the Allies occupied Cherbourg escorted.
The ship was returned to France after the end of the war and broken up in Belgium in 1951.
literature
- Volker Hartmann, Hartmut Nöldeke: Transporting the wounded across the sea; German hospital and wounded transport ships in World War II. (Small series of publications on military and naval history, Volume 20), Winkler, Bochum, 2010, ISBN 3-8991-1142-7
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ World War II War Diaries, 1941-1945 ›U› USS MALOY ›Rep of Participation in the Capture of German Hospital Ship (BORDEAUX) off the Coast of Northern France on 9/1/44
- ↑ Jersey War Tours ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
