Gorch Fock (ship, 1917)
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The Gorch Fock , built in 1917, was an outpost boat of the Imperial Navy and the first German warship to be named after the writer and poet Gorch Fock . From 1919 it was used as a fishing vessel until the Navy bought the boat in 1936 and converted it into an auxiliary minesweeper Hugin . From 1945 until it was scrapped in 1952, it was again used as a fishing vessel.
Construction and technical data
The boat was from the Stülcken shipyard in Hamburg for its own account under the hull number 532 nor 1916 put Kiel and adopted in November 1916 by the Imperial Navy. The launch took place on July 17, 1917, the delivery to the Navy on September 20, 1917.
Her length was 41.52 meters, she was 7.38 meters wide and had a draft of 2.9 meters. Their tonnage was 530 tons or 267 GRT . The drive consisted of a three-cylinder triple expansion machine that achieved 350 hp and acted on one screw. With that the ship reached 10 knots. In the Navy she had a team of 2 officers and 14 men and 23 students. As armament, she carried a 105-mm gun and two individual 20-mm flak.
use
The boat was taken over by the Imperial Navy in November 1916 without having previously been used as a fishing steamer. Only after a long period of renovation was she put into service as Gorch Fock on September 27, 1917 and first served as an outpost boat in the IV. Mine Flotilla , later in the 11th Half-Flotilla .
On July 19, 1919, the naval authorities handed it over to the previous owner, Stülcken. The boat was now used for the first time in fishing: First under the fishing license plate SD 88 with the "Altonaer Hochseefischerei AG", in 1931 with the change of the fishing license plate to HC 246, from 1932 with the "Hansa Hochseefischerei AG" and from 1933 with the Nordsee Deutsche Hochseefischerei .
In 1936 the laid-up old ships of this type were bought up by the navy during the Spanish Civil War and converted into auxiliary minesweepers. On September 8, 1937, the Navy put the boat into service as Hugin's auxiliary minesweeper . The auxiliary minesweepers were not used during the Spanish Civil War, but remained with the Navy. The Hugin was rebuilt in 1938 and assigned to the BSO school flotilla on April 1, 1939 .
During the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940, the company Weserübung that was Hugin the warship Group 7 assigned to the ferry ports in Denmark Nyborg and Korsør should occupy. Warship Group 7 consisted of the liner SMS Schleswig-Holstein , the three test boats Claus von Bevern , Nautilus and Pelikan , the Campinas (4541 BRT) and Cordoba (4611 BRT) transporters, the two tugs Föhn and Taifun and the BSO school flotilla with the six converted fish steamers Hugin , Hagen , Hildebrand , Munin , Odin and Volker . The Schleswig-Holstein ran aground and should be dragged free by the typhoon . However, this was rammed by an unknown vehicle and sank - the Hugin took over the survivors.
In 1940 the Hugin belonged to the BSO flotilla as a school boat. In 1942 the flotilla was disbanded and the boats were distributed to other flotillas. The Hugin was initially assigned to the coastal protection flotilla of the Middle Baltic Sea and received the identification DPK 05 in October 1942 - the abbreviation stands for the area of operation "Germany Pomeranian Coast" and the island of Rügen . From the coastal protection flotilla, the 2nd security flotilla emerged on October 1, 1943, and was stationed in Swinoujscie- Easter port. The boat now received the identification Vs 205 ; The tasks included mine clearance and escort services as well as guarding port and network barriers. The operational area extended from Danzig via Swinoujscie and Kiel to Copenhagen . The last commandant until the end of the war was First Lieutenant Rolf Zschernitz. In April 1945, while withdrawing from the Soviets , the Hugin first moved to Saßnitz , where she was the last ship to leave the port to take refugees to Copenhagen in a convoy . Another mission in the direction of Hela did not materialize because there was no more coal to bunker for the machine. So it went from Copenhagen at the end of the war to the Geltinger Bay , then to the Strander Bay.
After the Second World War, the boat was returned in September 1945, renamed Gorch Fock again and received the fishing license number PC 246, then NC 246 in 1948. In April 1952 the boat was scrapped.
literature
- Erich Gröner and others: The German warships 1815–1945. Volume 8/1: River vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection associations. Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7637-4807-5 , p. 117 f., Sketch p. 222.
- Erich Gröner and others: The German warships 1815–1945. Volume 5: Auxiliary Ships II: Hospital Ships, Residential Ships, Training Ships, Research Vehicles, Port Service Vehicles. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-7637-4804-0 .
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. Volume 7: Ship biographies from Prussian eagle to Ulan. Mundus Verlag, DNB 1077667310 .
- Reinhard K. Lochner: When the ice broke. The war at sea for Norway 1940. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-453-01690-4 .
- Fritz-Otto Busch , Georg Günther Freiherr von Forstner (ed.): War on seven oceans (= Our navy in the world war. Volume 2). Berlin 1935, illustration before p. 129.
- Herbert Baasch: Merchant ships in action. Verlag Georg Stalling, 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1851-8 , pp. 114 and 125.
Web links
- Lloyd's of London - Register 1945: Navires a Vapeur et a Moteurs de moins de 300tx, Chalutiers, & c. , online at: http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=45b0207.pdf accessed on November 6, 2017
- http://www.rostocker-hochseefischerei.de/schiffe/fvs/bilder1.php?id=63 accessed on November 7, 2017
- http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/sichverb/sifl-ost.htm accessed on November 5, 2017
- http://www.historisches-marinearchiv.de/projekte/weseruebung/ausgabe.php?where_value=57 accessed on November 5, 2017
Footnotes
- ↑ Gröner, Volume 5, p. 117.
- ↑ Gröner, Volume 5, p. 118, Lloyd's Register, years 1931, 1932, 1933.
- ↑ Gröner, Volume 5, p. 118.
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-04.htm Lochner, p. 530.
- ↑ Hildebrand, p. 137, cf. http://www.historisches-marinearchiv.de/projekte/weseruebung/ausgabe.php?where_value=57
- ↑ Gröner, Volume 5, p. 118.