Fridtjof Nansen (ship, 1930)

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The Fridtjof Nansen was a coast guard and fisheries protection ship of the Norwegian Navy , the first ship built by Norway specifically for this service in the Arctic . It was named after the polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen .

Construction and technical data

The ship was at the 1928 Naval Shipyard Karljohansvern in Horten with the hull number 118 on down Kiel , ran on 5 November 1930 by the stack and was put into service on May 29, the 1,931th It was 72.8 m long and 10.5 m wide, had a 5.7 m draft and displaced 1275 t (standard) and 1545 t (maximum). Two boilers and two triple expansion steam engines with a total of 2000 hp enabled a top speed of 15 knots over two screws . The range was 7,000 nautical miles . The ship was armed with two British 10.2 cm L / 40 ship guns in single mounts fore and aft and two 47 mm Bofors - Fla - machine guns L / 46, also in single mounts, and with an on-board aircraft of the type MF. 11 equipped. The crew numbered 67–70 men. The ship had a funnel and two masts, the rear one with a boom.

fate

Prewar years

The ship provided its service in the polar waters of Norway and in the North Sea . It came on December 21, 1933 to a serious accident , which led to the first sinking of the ship. The Fridtjof Nansen left Hammerfest to patrol along the coast of eastern Finnmark . While crossing Vestervågen near Måsøy , the ship ran aground and sank the following night. It was lifted the next year and dragged to Horten for repair.

Second World War

During the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940, the Fridtjof Nansen was assigned as a patrol boat to the Finnmark Department in the 3rd Maritime Defense District (Rear Admiral Leif Hagerup) and stationed in Honningsvåg near the North Cape . After surviving several German air raids, the ship managed to escape to Scotland in June 1940 . A day after already King Haakon VII. On the British heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire of Tromso from the exile had left for the UK, which took Fridtjof Nansen on 8 June in Tromsø Rear Admiral Henry this , the Commander of the Royal Norwegian Navy, and Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht and other refugees, including about two dozen German opponents of the Nazis , on board and left on the morning of June 10 to the west. She reached Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands on June 13 and drove on June 16 with six other small Norwegian warships and an escort of the Royal Navy to Rosyth in Scotland, where she arrived on June 18. There it was made ready for war.

The Honningsvåg off Iceland

On August 29, 1940, the Fridtjof Nansen began her service as a patrol boat of the Norwegian Navy in exile in the North Sea, based in Iceland , to reinforce the British units posted there. On November 8, 1940, she went to an unmarked shoal on the island of Jan Mayen aground and sank to the approximate position 70 ° 58 '  N , 8 ° 24'  W . The entire 67-strong crew was able to escape to the island on the Eggøya peninsula and used the Norwegian weather and radio station Eldste Metten , which was located a little further to the east and which had only been abandoned two months earlier, as a shelter. While the crew was still preparing a boat to get help from Iceland, the Norwegian war fishing cutter Honningsvåg appeared on the fourth day and had received the emergency signals sent before the sinking , and brought the Fridtjof Nansen's crew to Iceland.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ http://navalhistory.flixco.info/G/288833x54996/8330/a15.htm
  2. ↑ http://navalhistory.flixco.info/G/288833x54996/8330/a31.htmhttp://navalhistory.flixco.info/G/288833x54996/8330/a31.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / navalhistory.flixco.info  
  3. ↑ Sivertsen, p. 260
  4. ↑ Leo Niehorster : Scandinavian Campaign: Administrative Order of Battle Royal Norwegian Navy 3rd Naval District ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 9, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / niehorster.orbat.com
  5. ^ Fjørtoft, p: 35
  6. ↑ Sivertsen, p. 139
  7. ↑ Don Kindell: British and Other Navies in World War 2 Day-by-Day: Naval Events, June 1940 (Part 1 of 4) (accessed March 9, 2013)
  8. ↑ The Honningsvåg was launched in Wesermünde in September 1939 for Norddeutsche Hochseefischerei AG as Malangen (PG 550) and was put into service at the end of January 1940. The ship was captured by Norwegian militia soldiers on its first fishing voyage when entering Honningsvåg on April 13 and put into service ten days later by the Norwegian Navy armed with a 47 mm automatic cannon .
  9. ^ Barr, p. 149.

literature

  • Robert Gardiner (Ed.): Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. Conway Maritime Press, London, 1987, ISBN 0-85177-146-7 .
  • Frank Abelsen: Norwegian naval ships 1939–1945. Sem & Stenersen, Oslo, 1986, ISBN 82-7046-050-8 . (engl. & norway.)
  • Susan Barr: Jan Mayen: Norges utpost i vest: øyas historie gjennom 1500 år. Schibsted, Oslo, 2003, ISBN 82-300-0029-8 . (Norway.)
  • Kjell Fjørtoft: På feil side - The other one. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo, 1991, ISBN 82-05-20231-1 . (Norway.)
  • Svein Carl Sivertsen (Ed.): Sjøforsvaret dag for dag 1814-2000. Sjømilitære Samfund ved Norsk Tidsskrift for Sjøvesen, Hundvåg, 2001, ISBN 82-92217-03-7 . (Norway.)

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