Constanța (ship, 1944)
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The Constanța was a coaster from the Black Sea unit ship class and originally developed by the Navy during World War II for use in the Black Sea . The ship was completed in 1950 and sailed under the Romanian flag. In 1963 it was named Tulcea , after which it is lost.
Construction and technical data
Keel laying in Austria
The ship was on July 1, 1944, the shipyard Korneuburg - since 1938 part of the Reich Hermann Göring in - Korneuburg near Vienna under the hull number 440 to set keel . The internal designation was the fifth ship of the series SME 5, abbreviated as SME . The ship was intended as a tender for the Navy and was to be named Brocken or Schneekoppe . The ship did not launch in Korneuburg until the end of the war.
The planned dimensions of the ship were: 59.73 meters long, 9.00 meters wide and a draft of 3.17 meters. The design displacement was according to the plans 765 tons, the maximum 1270 tons at 706 GRT . The drive should consist of a 630 hp Halberg six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine , which worked on a screw and should reach a speed of 10.3 knots .
Completion in Hungary
At the end of the war the ship was still lying on the slipway in Korneuburg and was confiscated there by the Soviets as German property after the surrender of the Wehrmacht. The shipyard in Korneuburg was managed by the USIA (Administration of Soviet Property in Austria).
The SME 5 and SME 6 were launched in Korneuburg - probably in 1948 - and, like all eight Black Sea standard ships built in Korneuburg, were transferred to Hungary. On behalf of the Soviet Union, they were completed in Budapest at the Óbuda shipyard between 1948 and 1951. Of these eight ships, the Soviet Union left two to Romania. The two units SME 5 and SME 6 were named after the Romanian cities of Constanța and Mangalia .
For the two Romanian ships there are different ship dimensions for the time after completion, which have not been confirmed: their length is now given as 57.70 meters, the width as 9.02 meters and the draft as 3.55 meters. The construction displacement was now 613 tons, at 659 GRT , 384 NRT and a load capacity of 1,098 tons.
history
There are only a few certain key data about the history of the ship: In 1950 the shipyard completed the ship and handed it over to the Soviet-Romanian shipping company Sovromtransport, which was founded in 1945 . Constanta became the home port of Constanța . The Black Sea became the shipping area for which the ship was originally planned. When the shipping company Sovromtransport was dissolved in 1954, the Romanian ships were transferred to the Romanian state shipping company Navrom , which was founded in February 1955 . Home port remained Constanta. In 1963 the ship was renamed and given the name Tulcea . Then the track of the ship is lost.
literature
- Franz Dosch: Danube shipyards with history. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-886-7 .
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815–1945, Volume 7: Landing Associations II: Landing vehicles in the narrow sense (Part 2), landing ferries, landing support vehicles, transporters; Ships and boats of the army, ships and boats of the sea pilots / air force, colonial vehicles. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1990, ISBN 3-7637-4807-5 .
- Wilhelm Donko : The Black Sea Standard Ships SME 1 – SME 12. Concept, use, whereabouts. 2nd, slightly revised edition. Verlag epubli, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8442-9919-9 .
- Marian Mosneagu: Politica navala postbelica a Romaniei (1944-1958). Editura "Mica Valahie", 2011, ISBN 978-606-8304-14-4 .
- Valentin Ciorbea: Flota maritima comerciala romana: Un secol de istorie moderna 1895–1995. Editura Fundației "Andrei Șaguna", Constanța 1995, ISBN 973-97270-0-X .
Web links
- Naval Archive Forum , accessed on September 15, 2018
- Photo of the sister ship Mangalia , ex SME 6 romaniaforum.info, accessed on September 15, 2018
- Romanian Military History Forum www.worldwar2.ro, accessed September 15, 2018
Footnotes
- ↑ Donko p. 31, p. 62.
- ↑ Gröner, p. 141, Donko, p. 26f.
- ↑ Donko, pp. 79f., 86f.
- ↑ The shipyard, too, was initially taken over by the Soviets and only later became Hungarian property. See Dosch, p. 96.
- ↑ Donko, p. 87.
- ↑ a b Mosneagu, p. 265.
- ↑ The last Constanța was a submarine escort ship built in 1929 for the Romanian Navy , which was confiscated by the Soviet Union in 1944.
- ^ Forum Naval Archives