Brake (ship, 1940)
 A 1935 minesweeper
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The brake was a minesweeper of the German Navy and later a training ship of the German Navy .
period of service
Second World War
The brake was put into service on April 21, 1941. Initially, the boat went under the designation V 5502 as an outpost boat of the 55th outpost flotilla off the Norwegian coast. Then it was used in the 5th Flotilla of the Mine Forces as M 253 to secure the North Sea and southern Norway. It was ordered to the Baltic Sea at the end of 1941 to lay a minefield between the Memel River and southern Sweden and was then involved in the conquest of Liepāja and Ventspils . After the breakthrough through the Irbenstrasse , the Estonian islands Hiiumaa and Saaremaa fell into German hands. The ship fired at the Sõrve peninsula , which was bitterly contested. From 1942 the ship was mainly used in Norway as escort protection at the North Cape .
post war period
After the war, the ship fell to the United States and was assigned to the German mine clearance service of the 5th minesweeping flotilla of the 4th Norway mine clearance division in Kristiansand .
On October 9, 1947, the ship was handed over to France and served as Vimy until November 22, 1956.
It was sold to the German Navy as the Hulk Q-77 and used as an escort boat Bremse F 208 until October 5, 1963. On August 24, 1976 it was sold to Jade-Stahl for demolition.
Web links
- The gray fleet: curriculum vitae of the M-Boats type 35/39 mob., M 251 - M 260
- German Navy: Minesweeper 1935
- Second World War Lexicon: Minesweeper Type MBoot 1935
- Battleships cruisers: french minesweepers
- Navypedia: "1935", "1938" and "1939 (Mob)" types minesweepers
- German Navy: 1935-class mine sweeper
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 2 : torpedo boats, destroyers, speedboats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 , pp. 205-209 .