The Dwarssee was a German cargo ship built in 1920, which was sunk on May 3, 1945 on the Baltic Sea between Fehmarn and Lolland .
history
The Dwarssee was handed over to its Dutch owner by the shipyard in 1920 and christened Louisa , in 1923 it was sold to Schröder, Hölken and Fischer and renamed Hannah Hölken . In 1930 it became the property of Hölken & Fischer and was given the name Hannaburg , before it was sold in 1931 to Wilhelm Schuchmann , the owner of the Bugsier-, Reederei- und Bergungsgesellschaft .
On August 1, 1939, it was confiscated by the Navy and then used as a coal ship station east until 1945. In the spring of 1945 she took part in the transport of refugees across the Baltic Sea and evacuated refugees from Pillau from March 8 to April 25 . On May 3, 1945, the Dwarssee was sunk by Russian airmen while delivering coal to the hospital ship Der Deutsche .
Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German Warships, 1815-1945, Volume 4: Auxiliary Ships I: Workshop Ships, Tenders and Support Ships, Tankers and Suppliers , Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1986, ISBN 978-3-7637-4803-7 , Pp. 89, 91, 92
Individual evidence
↑ Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German Warships, 1815-1945, Volume 4 . Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1986, ISBN 978-3-7637-4803-7 (pages 89, 91, 92).
^ Fritz Brustat-Naval: Rescue company . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1970 (page 204, 244).
↑ Wolfgang Müller, Reinhard Kramer: Sunk and Lost: People and Ship Fates, Baltic Sea 1945 . 2nd Edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1994 (page 216).
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