Carl Peters (ship, 1939)
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The Carl Peters was a speedboat accompanying ship of the German Navy named after the German Africa explorer Carl Peters .
prehistory
For the increasing number of their speedboats , which were put into service, the Navy needed appropriately equipped escort ships for each flotilla , which served the boat crews as accommodation and the boats as fuel, ammunition, fresh water and food depots. Initially, from 1927 onwards, the old North Sea tender , which had been converted accordingly , was replaced by the newly built Tsingtau in 1934 . In January 1939 the Tanga was added as a second ship. In 1938 the Navy ordered two more and considerably larger S-boat escort ships, the Adolf Lüderitz and the Carl Peters .
Construction and technical data
The Carl Peters expired on 13 April 1939 at the AG Neptun in Rostock from the stack and was put into service on January 6, 1940th She was 114 meters long (103.6 m in the waterline) and 14.5 m wide, had a draft of 4.34 m and displaced 2900 tons (standard) and 3600 tons (maximum). Two double-acting MAN four-stroke diesel engines with Vulcan gearboxes gave it 12,400 hp and a top speed of 23 knots . The range of action was 12,000 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 15 kn. The ship was equipped with four 10.5-cm guns , a 4 cm Bofors - Flak armed, six 3.7-cm Flak and eight 2-cm Flak. The crew numbered 225 men.
Mission history
When it was put into service under Lieutenant Hinzke, the ship was assigned to the 1st Schnellbootsflotilla, in which the Tsingtau had previously served in this function. As early as April, it took part in the Weser Exercise operation with five flotilla boats , and was involved in the occupation of the Norwegian port city of Bergen as part of "Warship Group 3" . On the morning of April 9, the Carl Peters was initially hit by a torpedo from the old Norwegian torpedo boat Storm , which did not explode and therefore only caused minor damage. Soon afterwards the unit came under fire from the coastal batteries at Kvarven in the Byfjord . The Carl Peters was hit in the mast, which did not cause any great damage to the ship, but killed and wounded several of the embarked army soldiers through splinters. The light cruiser Königsberg and the artillery training ship Bremse also received hits; Both could not start the march back without repairs, and the next day the Konigsberg was sunk by British dive bombers in the port of Bergen .
After the occupation of Bergen, the Carl Peters and her flotilla initially stayed in Norway, where the S-boats patrolled the fjords and along the coast. Then the flotilla was transferred to the North Sea and the English Channel . In May 1941, in preparation for the attack on the Soviet Union, it went to the Baltic Sea. In the spring of 1942 the 1st Schnellbootsflotilla was transferred to the Black Sea , and the Carl Peters , now under the command of Kapitänleutnant Reuthal, was assigned to the 6th and then to the 8th Schnellbootflotilla. On September 1, 1943, she joined the Schnellboots school flotilla. When the Schnellbootlehrdivision was set up in April 1944, the Carl Peters came as an escort ship to the new 3rd Schnellboot-Schulflotille. These, like the 1st and 2nd School Flotilla, were used in 1945 to ship refugees and wounded from the eastern regions and in May 1945 to evacuate soldiers from the Kurland basin .
The End
On May 10, 1945, two days after the German surrender, the Carl Peters ran into a mine in the Geltinger Bucht near Flensburg and sank.
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 3836497433 , ISBN 978-3836497435
- Volkmar Kühn: Schnellboats in use 1939-45 , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 3rd edition, 1997, ISBN 3879434506 , ISBN 978-3879434503
- Siegfried Breyer: Special and special ships of the Kriegsmarine (I), Marine-Arsenal Volume 30, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Eggolsheim-Bammersdorf, 1995, ISBN 3-7909-0523-2
Web links
- Carl Peters , at deutsche-kriegsschiffe.de
- Carl Peters , at Förderverein Museums-Schnellboot eV
- Carl Peters , at german-navy.de