Brommy (F 218)
 The Brommy 1961
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The frigate Brommy (F 218) of the German Navy was a training ship, named after Karl Rudolf Brommy (1804-1860), the commander of the Reichsflotte of the German Confederation from 1849 to 1853. It was named successor of the clearing boat accompanying ship Brommy of the Navy .
The ship was launched in 1942 as the destroyer escort HMS Eggesford for the Royal Navy and was mostly used in the Mediterranean during World War II . From 1959 to 1965 the destroyer escort of the type Hunt III served as a school frigate in the German Navy . In 1979 the Brommy , which was last used as a target ship, was canceled.
history
The later Brommy of the German Navy was built as the destroyer escort HMS Eggesford of the type III Hunt class from 1941 to 1943 at the shipyard of J. Samuel White in Cowes . This yard was one of the first contractors for ships of this class. The Eggesford was the seventh Hunt destroyer from this shipyard, which had previously delivered two Type I and four Type II ships and built a total of ten Hunt destroyers.
War missions
The Eggesford was mainly used in the Mediterranean region and served as a security ship for the landing fleets during the Allied landings in Sicily ( Operation Husky ), Salerno ( Operation Avalanche ) and in southern France ( Operation Dragoon ). In the final phase of the war in Europe, the destroyer escort was still serving in the North Sea and was then intended for use with the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean.
The ship did not reach Ceylon until September 1945 and stayed there until October before returning to Great Britain without having conducted any operational missions. From 1946 to 1952 she was kept operational as a reserve ship before it was launched and was available for sale.
German school frigate
The Eggesford was one of the seven units of the Royal Navy that were bought by the German Navy, which was under construction, to serve as training ships. For the sake of simplicity, the ships were grouped under the heading of class 138 school frigates , although they were not structurally identical. Rather, it was three Hunt escort destroyers of types II and III (2) and four sloops of the Black Swan type . Germany took over the Eggesford as a school frigate Brommy in 1959 for the underwater weapons school in Eckernförde .
The Brommy made trips abroad in European waters from Norway in the north to Crete in the south. The first trip together with the school frigate Scharnhorst led in the period from January 16 to March 24, 1961 via Portsmouth and Cadiz to Messina and via Gibraltar , Porto and Le Havre back again. In August a second voyage began as a replacement for the failed school boat Bremse , on which the school frigate did not reach the school boats Biene ex M 205 and Brummer ex M 85 until Seville . The association returned to Kiel on September 22, 1961 via Bayonne , Liverpool , Edinburgh and Calais .
Of 8 January to 17 March 1962, led Brommy together with the sister ship Raule a long spring travel back into the Mediterranean to Salonika through the Brommy after damage in Dover chase and subsequent repair the sister ship had and only recently Salonika repulped would have. Further shorter trips abroad followed in 1963/1964 to Norway and the Netherlands.
On April 30, 1965, the Brommy was decommissioned. The ship, which was never fully modernized, was used as a target ship for speedboats in the Bay of Biscay from 1972 to 1977 . In 1979 the ship was scrapped in Wilhelmshaven .
Other ships named Brommy
From November 1937 to 1944 there was a unit in the Kriegsmarine called Brommy . This was the minesweeper M 50 , which was put into service for the Imperial Navy in 1916 , and which was used to clear the war mines until 1921. From 1933 to 1936 it was again in service as a minesweeper with the Reichsmarine, only to come back into service in 1938 as a clearing boat escort of a mine sweeping flotilla . This first Brommy sank on June 15, 1944 in an air raid west of Boulogne-sur-Mer .
Other ships with the number 218
- see also: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (F 218)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rohwer : Chronicle of the Naval War 1939–1945. P. 384.
- ↑ Mission history
- ↑ a b c d Hildebrand: School frigate Brommy. Vol I, p. 172.
- ↑ Hildebrand: Räumbootbegleitschiff Brommy. Vol. VII, pp. 74f.
literature
- Günter Kroschel, Klaus-Jürgen Steindorff: The German Navy 1955–1985: Ships and Airplanes. Verlag Lohse-Eissing, Wilhelmshaven 1985, ISBN 3-92-0602-30-7 .
- Keyword: evacuation boats. Brommy (M 50 / M 550). In: Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. seven volumes in one volume, 3rd edition Herrsching approx. 1984, vol. 7, pp. 74f.
- Keyword: school frigate Brommy. in: ibid., vol. 1, p. 172.
