Cordova (ship)

Cordova

Ship data flag  German Empire German Empire France Colombia       other ship names M 158 (1918–1920) Grille (1920–1923) Dinard (1923–1931) Dixmude (1931–1932) Ship type Minesweeper passenger ship gunboat class Minesweeper 1916 Shipyard North Sea Works , Emden Keel laying 1918 Launch 1920 Whereabouts Sunk on June 11, 1937

Ship dimensions and crew length 59.60 m ( Lüa ) 56.10 m ( KWL ) width 7.30 m Draft Max. 2.15 m   crew 40 men

Machine system machine 2 × marine boiler 2 × steam engine Machine performance 1,850 PS (1,361 kW) Top speed 16.0 kn (30 km / h) propeller 2 three-leaf 1.97 m

Armament 1 × gun 8,8 cm L / 45 2 × gun 7.5 cm 2 × MG 13.2 mm

The Cordova was originally a minesweeper type minesweeper in 1916 the German Imperial Navy on laid keel , but no longer as such built ship, which after the end of World War I was finished as a passenger ship.

Construction and technical data

The ship was laid down during the First World War in 1918 at the North Sea Works in Emden as M 158 for the Imperial Navy. While there has not been completed by the end of the war in November 1918, but the ship was finally allowed to be completed for civilian purposes and ran in 1920 with the name of cricket from the stack . It was 59.60 m long (over all, 56.1 m in the waterline ) and 7.30 m wide and had a draft of 2.15 m . Two 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines with a total of 1850 HP and two screws enabled a top speed of 16.0 knots . The bunker capacity was 160 tons of coal.

history

The ship was sold in 1923 to the French company "Compagnie TransInsulaire de Navigation", which operated the ship under the name Dinard until 1931 as a passenger ferry between Saint-Malo and Jersey .

After it was sold and briefly renamed Dixmude , the ship was sold on to the Colombian Navy in 1932 , who renamed it Cordova and had it converted into a gunboat in France . At the same time, the Norwegian Tönsberg I , the former German minesweeper M 139 , which was also not built as such , was bought, renamed Bogotá and also rebuilt in France. The armament consisted of a 8.8 cm L / 45 gun, two 7.5 cm guns and two 13.2 mm MG , the crew of 40 men. The steam boilers were modified to be able to burn both coal and wood. The water displacement of the converted ship was 508 t standard and 630 t maximum. After the conversion, the two ships went with French crews to Belém in Brazil , where they arrived on February 24, 1933 and were taken over by the Colombian Navy. They then served as patrol and river gunboats .

The Cordova was retired in 1937 and sunk on June 11, 1937 as a target ship by the two destroyers Antioquia and Caldas .

Web links

• Minesweeper 1916 , at www.german-navy.de (English)
• Colombian Navy (Colombia), Bogota patrol gunboats , at navypedia.org (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://channelislandsshipping.je/page30.html