Elsfleth (ship, 1918)

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Ship data
other ship names

Lood boat No. 11 (1924-1940)

Shipyard Frerichswerft , Einswarden
Build number 322
Commissioning January 9, 1918
Ship dimensions and crew
length
39.61 m ( Lüa )
width 7.05 m
Draft Max. 3.33 m
measurement approx. 255 GRT
 
crew 24 to 31 men (as escort or auxiliary minesweeper )
Machine system
machine Steam engine
Machine
performance 		450 hp (331 kW)
Top
speed 		10 kn (19 km / h)
Armament

Unknown

The Elsfleth was a fishing steamer commissioned by the Imperial Navy during the First World War and used as an escort boat . She sank in 1940 in a marine casualty off Granville . It was named after the Oldenburg port town of the same name on the Lower Weser .

history

The Elsfleth was on January 9, 1918 as an escort boat in the II. Escort Flotilla / 7. Semi-flotilla put into service. In 1919 she was assigned to the 4th minesweeping flotilla in the Baltic Sea , apparently to clear the sea ​​mine fields there.

On July 20, 1920, it became British spoils of war . Presumably it was sold to Belgium in 1922 at the latest or given to Belgium. From 1924 it was now in Loodsboot No. 11 renamed ship used as a pilot boat . It sank on December 20, 1940 off Granville after colliding with the steam tug Georges Guynemer ; Details are not known.

Sister ships

Sister ships were the Einswarden , Elmshorn , Grand Duke Friedrich August , Middendorf , Dortmund , Dresden and Claus Wisch .

literature

  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 , Volume 8/1: river vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats , auxiliary minesweepers , coastal protection associations , Bonn 1993, p. 179f. ISBN 3-7637-4807-5
  • Günther Diercks / Reinhold Thiel: J. Frerichs & Co. Frerichswerft. Flethe / Rönnebeck - Osterholz-Scharmbeck - Einswarden , Bremen (Verlag HM Hauschild GmbH) 2001. ISBN 3-89757-092-0