Buea (ship)

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Ship data
flag DenmarkDenmark Denmark German Empire
German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) 
other ship names

Hammershus (1936–1944 and 1946–1964)
Henrik Gerner (1964–1975)

Ship type Ferry
speedboat escort
Shipyard Burmeister & Wain , Copenhagen
Build number 622
Keel laying July 12, 1935
Launch February 8, 1936
Whereabouts Wrecked in 1976
Ship dimensions and crew
length
81.02 m ( Lüa )
width 12.21 m
Draft Max. 4.35 m
Machine system
machine 1 × diesel
Machine
performance 		2,460 PS (1,809 kW)
Top
speed 		15 kn (28 km / h)

The Buea (pronounced Buea) was an auxiliary speedboat escort ship of the German Navy in World War II , originally in 1936 under the name Hammershus spilled stack of Danish ferry and passenger ship.

Construction and technical data

The ship was on July 12, 1935 at Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen with the hull number 622 to set keel and ran there on February 8, 1936 by Stack . It was 81.02 meters long and 12.21 meters wide and had a draft of 4.35 meters. A diesel engine of 2460 hp gave it a top speed of 15 knots .

Hammershus

The Hammershus , named after the medieval fortress Hammershus at the north end of Bornholm Island , served as a ferry and passenger ship for " Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab " between Rønne on Bornholm and Copenhagen. It had space for 900 passengers and 20 cars. On April 8, 1940, the ship ran into a mine in the Öresund , but was brought in and repaired.

Navy

Buea

On March 16, 1944 it was confiscated by the Navy and in May 1944 it was put into service as a speedboat escort ship under the name Buea . The name was given to the city of Buea , the administrative seat of the former German colony of Cameroon . The commandant was Oberleutnant zur See Stölzer. Until the end of the war, the Buea served the crews of German speedboats in the Baltic Sea as accommodation and the boats as a fuel, ammunition, fresh water and food depot.

On the Buea one day was on May 9, 1945, after the unconditional surrender of the armed forces , in the bay Geltinger in Flensburg , the last one with a death sentence -ending court martial the German Wehrmacht instead. The three sailors were Fritz Wehrmann , Alfred Gail and Martin Schilling for desertion to death by firing squad condemned. A fourth seaman received three years in prison . The four had learned of the surrender of the German troops to the Allies on May 4, 1945 and on May 6 they tried to get from their accommodation in Svendborg on the island of Funen to the mainland. They were picked up by a Danish auxiliary police officer and transferred to the local commandant of the German troops on Funen. Commodore Rudolf Petersen , the "leader of the speedboats", had the option of pardoning as commander and court martial , but confirmed the death sentences on May 10, 1945 and had them carried out on the aft ship of the Buea that afternoon on the same day . The bodies of the three executed sailors were sunk in the Baltic Sea.

Danish Navy

After the end of the war, the ship was taken over by the British Royal Navy in the Geltinger Bay and was initially used to transport troops home. It was returned to its original Danish owner in 1946, and from 1947 onwards it operated again as a ferry between Copenhagen and Rønne. It was also used for cruises in the Baltic and North Seas in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Henrik Gerner

In 1963 it was bought by the Danish Navy , converted into a submarine tender at the Royal Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen and put into service on January 8, 1964 under the name Henrik Gerner (identification A 542). After the conversion, the ship displaced 2040 tons. It was unarmed. The crew numbered 230 men. Plans considered in 1970 to equip the ship with a helipad and hangar were not implemented due to the ship's old age.

Whereabouts

The Henrik Gerner was filed on Oct. 31, 1975 out of service on 16 March 1976 to the company HJ Hansen in Odense sold for scrap and broken up in the same year.

literature

  • Erich Gröner: The ships of the German Navy and their whereabouts 1939-1945 , JF Lehmanns, Munich, 1976, ISBN 3-469-00297-5
  • Hans-H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German Warships , 10 volumes, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, ISBN 3-8364-9743-3 , ISBN 978-3-8364-9743-5
  • Gunnar Olsen and Svenn Storgaard: Flådens skibe og fartøjer 1945-1995 , Marinehistoriske skrifter, Copenhagen 1998, ISBN 87-87720-13-2 (Danish)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ M / S HAMMERSHUS. faktaomfartyg.se, accessed June 27, 2017 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Bornholm.html#anchor1386560
  3. ↑ http://www.ournewhaven.org.uk/page_id__810.aspx