Kingfisher (ship, 1942)

**kingfisher**
	kingfisher
Ship data
other ship names	Alyosha Popovich
Ship type	Icebreaker
Owner	Kriegsmarine; Soviet Navy
Shipyard	Aalborg Værft , Aalborg
Keel laying	1941
baptism	1942
takeover	1942
Decommissioning	1972
Whereabouts	rots
Ship dimensions and crew
length	61.4 m ( Lüa ) 55.0 m ( Lpp )
width	15.0 m
Draft	Max. 6.3 m
displacement	2913 t
crew	69
Machine system
machine	2 × three-cylinder triple expansion machine, 3 × water tube boiler 16 atü
Machine ; performance	3,200 PS (2,354 kW)
Top ; speed	12.5 kn (23 km / h)
propeller	1 × 4-blade fixed propeller 3.2 m diameter

The Eisvogel was an icebreaker in the German Navy during World War II . After the war, the ship served in the Soviet Union until 1972 .

Construction and technical data

The ship was on the Aalborg Shipyard in Aalborg in since April 1940 by Germany occupied Denmark built for the Navy, as a modified sister ship of on the Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad in Sweden's Gothenburg under construction polar bear . It was launched in 1942 and entered service on June 1, 1942. The ship was 61.40 m long and 15.30 m wide, had a draft of 5.90 / 6.30 m and a water displacement of 2090 t (standard) and 2913 t (fully equipped). Two standing triple expansion steam engines with a total of 3200 PSi gave a top speed of 12.5 knots over two screws . The armament consisted of two 3.7 cm Flak 37 in single mounts . The crew consisted of 69 men.

Navy

The Eisvogel served in the Baltic Sea as an icebreaker, tugboat , escort boat and most recently in 1945 during the evacuation of German refugees from East Prussia and Pomerania . When the war ended, the ship was after his last arrival of refugees in Wismar from his crew scuttled .

Soviet Union

Shortly after the end of the war it was lifted, repaired and delivered to the Soviet Union as spoils of war . Under the new name Aljoscha Popowitsch ( Russian Алёша Попович ; named after the Russian Bogatyr Aljoscha Popowitsch ) it served in the Far East until 1972. The ship was retired in 1972 and in the Novik Bay ( "Buchta Novik") on the island of Russki in Vladivostok launched . There it rusted along with numerous other decommissioned units until it came to the ship cemetery in Truda Bay ("Buchta Truda"; 43 ° 2 '28 " N , 131 ° 52' 23" E ), a branch of the Buchta Novik , was towed. In 2003, only the largely rusted outer skin of its hull could be seen there. 43,041 131,873

Web links

literature

John Erik Olsen: Værftet i Aalborg. Forlaget Legimus, Thisted, Denmark, 2012, ISBN 978-8-7995-5241-2

Footnotes

^ Photo of the ship when it was launched in 1942
↑ Some websites mention Ilya Muromets ( Russian Илья Муромец ) as the ship's name (in German transcription Ilya Muromets ), but this was the new name of the polar bears that were also delivered to the Soviet Union .
↑ https://www.graptolite.net/IIIReich/Eisvogel.html

[1] Photo of the ship when it was launched in 1942

[2] Some websites mention Ilya Muromets ( Russian Илья Муромец ) as the ship's name (in German transcription Ilya Muromets ), but this was the new name of the polar bears that were also delivered to the Soviet Union .

[3] ttps://www.graptolite.net/IIIReich/Eisvogel.html