Dalny (ship, 1914)
 The sister ship Sikiang of Messageries Maritimes , ex Meiningen
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The Dalny was a French cargo steamer . The ship was named after the former Russian name of the Chinese city of Dalian . It was built as a Waldeck for Norddeutscher Lloyd , delivered to France in 1919 as a war reparation , taken by the German Reich in 1942 and destroyed in 1943 by torpedo hits in the Mediterranean .
history
Waldeck
The ship was launched on 1 September 1914 with the hull number 572 at the shipyard Bremer Vulkan named Waldeck from the stack . It was the eighth of twelve ships in the Rhineland class built for North German Lloyd . It was 143.60 m long and 18.04 m wide, had a draft of 8.81 m and was measured at 6850 GRT . A triple expansion - steam engine at 4000 PSI and a screw resulted in a speed of 12.5 knots . The Waldeck was the first ship of its class that has a cabin equipment for six passengers of first class possessed. The crew consisted of 56 men.
The Waldeck was intended for the liner service to Australia , but was no longer used because of the outbreak of war .
Dalny
After the end of the war, the Waldeck was delivered to France on March 26, 1919 as part of the German reparations payments. She was managed by the shipping company Compagnie Maritime des Chargeurs Réunis , which also received a sister ship with the Altenburg , which was completed at Tecklenborg during the war . In 1920 both ships were bought and renamed Dalny and Camranh . The Camranh ex Altenburg was lost on September 4, 1920 on the return journey from Saigon to France near Singapore due to stranding. The Dalny was used in freight traffic on all lines of the French shipping company.
Field test under the German flag
In late November 1942, the account of the war in Marseille resting Dalny in the wake of the Laval-Kaufmann Agreement by German Marines for the Reich Commissariat for sea and internal and provisional designation Felix 20 repossessed. On December 26, 1942, the ship was handed over to the Marseille branch of the Mediterranean shipping company to be managed and put into service on December 30, with a German crew and under the imperial service flag.
On January 9, 1943, she left for Genoa , now with the internal name Fritz 94 , loaded with cranes destined for Crete . On January 10th, she was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Tribune at Capo Berta, about 25 nautical miles east of San Remo , and so badly damaged that her crew put her on the beach at Capo Cervo, a few kilometers further east had to. The following day, the tribune attacked a second time with torpedoes, which further damaged the freighter without sinking. The ship was torpedoed again during the salvage work on June 4, 1943 by the French submarine Arèthuse and then again aground at Capo Cervo. There it was bombed and survived a torpedo attack by the Dutch submarine Dolfijn on September 15 . The wreck was finally towed to Marseille, where it was blown up on August 22, 1944 and demolished in 1945.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/creunis.shtml
- ↑ demise of Camranh ex Altenburg
- ↑ http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3486.html
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/43-06.htm
- ↑ http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/2908.html
Web links
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The ships of the North German Lloyd 1857 to 1919 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1991, ISBN 3-7822-0524-3 .