Brandenburg (ship, 1936)
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The Brandenburg was a former French refrigerated ship that was confiscated by the German Navy in December 1942 and then used as a mine ship from April 1943 until it was sunk in September 1943 .
Reefer Kita
The ship ran in 1936 on the shipyard Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (FCM) in La Seyne-sur-Mer with the hull number 1232 and the name Kita for the shipping company Chargeurs Réunis from the stack . It was 106.7 m long and 13.16 m wide, had a draft of 5.7 m and was measured at 3894 GRT . Three boilers and two steam turbines with a total of 4800 HPw resulted in a top speed of 15 knots .
Mining ship Brandenburg
The daycare was after the occupation of southern France by the Wehrmacht in December 1942, as part of the Laval-Kaufmann Agreement , in the port of Marseille taken from the Navy in possession. It should first be converted to the fast escort boat SG 8 . But then it was decided to equip it as a mine ship. The ship was armed with three 10.5 cm guns, three 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns , eighteen 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and six depth charges. It could hold up to 225 EMC mines or 260 UMB mines. The ship was put into service in April 1943 under the name Brandenburg and was already used on April 22nd to lay mine barriers in the sea area southwest of Sardinia . The commandant was initially Corvette Captain Dr. Otto miracle. In the following months, the Brandenburg was involved , mostly together with the mine ship Pommern , in numerous mining companies on the coast of Sardinia, in the Gulf of Gaeta , in the Gulf of Salerno and in the Strait of Bonifacio . On July 11, 1943, Commandant Dr. Miracle fatally wounded in an air raid. He was succeeded by Corvette Captain Dr.-Ing. Karl-Friedrich Brill.
On September 9, 1943, the day after the Italian armistice was announced , the Brandenburg and Pomeranians met the Italian auxiliary cruiser Piero Foscari and the freighter Valverde near Castiglioncello south of Livorno . They attacked the two ships, which were being shot at by German army artillery from the land side. Both Italian ships had to be put on the beach. The two mine ships drove further north, still supported by army artillery on self-propelled guns , and captured the Italian miner Buffoluto after an artillery duel .
On September 21, 1943 the Brandenburg and the Jägerleitschiff Kreta (ex French Ile de Beauté ) were in the Tyrrhenian Sea about 7 nautical miles northeast of the island of Capraia at the position 43 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E of the British submarine Unseen sunk by torpedoes . 25 men of the crew were killed.
literature
- Karl von Kutzleben, Wilhelm Schroeder, Jochen Brennecke : Mine ships 1939–1945. The mysterious missions of the “midnight squadron”. Köhler, Herford 1974, ISBN 3-7822-0098-5 .
Web links
- http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/minelayer/brandenburg/index.html
- http://www.navypedia.org/ships/germany/ger_conc_aml2.htm
- Kita / Brandenburg at www.wrecksite.eu
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/creunis.shtml
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/43-04.htm
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/43-05.htm
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/43-07.htm
- ↑ Vincent O'Hara, Enrico Cernuschi: Dark Navy. The Italian Regia Marina and the Armistice of 8 September 1943. Nimble Books LLC, Ann Arbor MI 2009, ISBN 978-1934-84091-7 , p. 45.
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/43-09.htm ; HMS Unseen (P51), at uboat.net