Fire (ship, 1898)
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 The fire (left) and three sister boats in Kiel , 1900 |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Torpedo boat |
| Shipyard | |
| Launch | September 22, 1898 |
| delivery | 1898 |
| Whereabouts | Accumulated and sunk on April 13, 1940 near Bergen |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
83 t, maximum 107 t |
| length |
39.9 m over everything |
| width |
4.8 m |
| Draft |
2.15 m |
| crew |
23 men |
| drive |
2 steam boilers , |
| speed |
17.5 kn |
| Armament |
2 × 37 mm Hotchkiss cannons , |
| Coal supply |
17 t |
The fire was a torpedo boat first class (norw .: Torpedobåt cl. I ) of the Norwegian Navy , the 1900 to 1940 in the Norwegian Navy and from April 1940 to May 1945 in the German Navy as a tarantula served.
Construction and technical data
The Brand was one of three boats of the Storm type , which also included the Trods . The three boats were largely identical to the three Hval boats built in 1896 near Schichau in Elbing for the Norwegian Navy and the four Laks boats built in 1900 and 1901 in Norway .
The fire expired on 22 September 1898 at the Marinens Hovedværft which Carljohansværn Værft in Horten from the stack and was put into service in 1900. The boat was 40.0 m long and 4.90 m wide. It had a draft of 1.10 m in the fore and 2.10 m in the aft and displaced 80 t (standard) and 107 t (maximum). The machine system consisted of two water-tube boilers and a triple expansion steam engine , whose 650 HP enabled a top speed of 17.5 knots via one screw . Up to 17 tons of coal could be stored. The armament consisted of two 3.7-cm-5-tube Hotchkiss revolver cannons and two 45-cm torpedo tubes , one between the two funnels, one on the stern. The crew numbered 23 men.
history
1901-1940
During the political tensions with Sweden in the course of the Norwegian resolution process from the previous personal union with Sweden after the referendum of August 13, 1905, Norway, like Sweden, mobilized its armed forces on September 13. When war threatened in autumn, the fire and the other new torpedo boats took part in extensive naval maneuvers. Six of them were then stationed in the Oslofjord under the command of the destroyer Valkyrjen in order to fend off a feared Swedish attack from the sea on Oslo and the military and industrial installations in eastern Norway in cooperation with the four coastal armored ships ; the other four torpedo boats, 1st class, remained in front of Bergen .
During the First World War , the fire , like the other ships of the Norwegian Navy, served to ensure Norwegian neutrality and as an escort for merchant ships in Norwegian coastal waters. After the end of the war, until 1927, the boat was mainly used to catch smugglers trying to bring alcohol into the country during the Norwegian prohibition .
1940-1945
At the beginning of the Second World War , the Brand , along with the Storm and the Sæl , belonged to the 4th Torpedo Boat Division, which is based in Bergen and belongs to the 2nd Sea Defense Section, but each boat operated relatively independently in the coastline assigned to it. The fire was stationed in Fedje on the island of the same name northwest of Bergen, the Storm in the Krossfjord (south of Bergen and the island of Sotra ) near Hummelsund ( Øygarden municipality ), and the Sæl further south in Brandasund on the Selbjørnsfjord . When the German warship group 3 occupied Bergen during the invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940, the navy also got hold of the fire that was in the port for major repairs .
After completion of the shipyard work, the Navy put the boat under the name Tarantel and with the tactical number NB19 in service with the port protection flotilla Bergen. On June 1, 1944, the boat with the new number V5519 was assigned to the 55th outpost flotilla operating on the Norwegian west coast, with which it served until the end of the war. The Norwegian Navy then repossessed it, but sold it for scrapping in 1946.
Web links
- http://www.navypedia.org/ships/norway/no_dd_storm.htm
- Ships of the Norwegian Navy in April 1940 (private website)
literature
- Jon Rustung Hegland & Johan Henrik Lilleheim: Norske torpedobåter gjennom 125 år. Sjømilitære Samfund ved Norsk Tidsskrift for Sjøvesen, Hundvåg, 1998, ISBN 82-994738-1-0 (norw.)
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The Trods was taken out of service in 1931 and then scrapped.
- ↑ The three boats built at Schichau, the Hval , Delfin and Hai , had, however, a considerably more powerful machine system that made 1100 hp and 21 knots.
- ^ Jacob Børresen: Sjømilitære krigsforberedelser i ytre Oslofjord summer 1905. Vestfold University College and Borre Historical Society. - ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2007 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. (norw.) (accessed February 25, 2012)
- ^ Organization of Norwegian Marine Forces ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2012 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.
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-04.htm
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/vboote/vp-frames.htm
