Gunther Plüschow (ship, 1935)
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The Gunther Plüschow , ex Krischan II , was an air traffic control ship of the German Air Force . It was named after the naval aviator and aviation pioneer Gunther Plüschow (1886-1931).
context
With the expansion of the Air Force after the beginning of National Socialist rule in Germany, the establishment of an efficient Air Force Sea Emergency Service began, which had to be equipped with appropriately equipped boats and ships. The first so-called air traffic control ship built for this purpose was the Krischan , a small motor ship weighing 196 tons . The Krischan was followed by two more ships of a similar type in 1935, each considerably larger than the previous one, the 375 t Gunther Plüschow and the 880 t Bernhard von Tschirschky ; the two were initially referred to as Krischan II and Krischan III and, although they were not sister ships, considered together with their predecessor as generally belonging to the Krischan class .
Construction and technical data
The Krischan II (air traffic control ship K II) ran with the hull number 682, on 17 January 1935 at the Norderwerft Köser & Meyer in Hamburg from the stack . After completion of the test drives, it was taken over by the Reich Ministry of Aviation on March 10, 1935 and put into service with Luftkreiskommando VI (sea). On August 13, 1936, the ship was named Gunther Plüschow .
The ship was 53.75 meters long (51.0 m in the waterline ) and 8.3 m wide, had a draft of 2.65 m, and displaced 375 tons . Its two 10-cylinder four-stroke MAN - diesel engines with a total of 3200 PSe enabled him two waves a top speed of 19 knots (excluding aircraft loading). The fuel supply was 50 t, which allowed a range of up to 1500 nautical miles . While the Krischan even with conventional two derricks with 4 t lifting force fitted, which had Gunther Pluschow a fixed, rotatable Kampnagel - Aircraft lifting crane with 10 t lifting force at the front end of the aft long located working deck. This enabled aircraft to be taken on deck and serviced or transported there. Using a winch , it was able to take aircraft up to the size of an "Ar-196" on board via a slipway at the stern . On the aft deck there was space for two aircraft of the types Heinkel He 60 , Heinkel He 114 or Ar 196, which could be serviced or transported there. The ship was armed with a 3.7 cm gun and had a crew of 2 officers and 28 men.
fate
The "Krischan II" drove its first missions, initially as an authority vehicle with a black hull and light gray superstructure, from List on Sylt . From May 1936 it was subordinated to the Luftwaffe's distress area and now got the colors of the Navy, and in August 1936 it was renamed Gunther Plüschow . In July 1937 the Gunther Plüschow was assigned to the Norderney Sea Emergency District Office (SNB) and stationed in Borkum . On August 31, 1939, in preparation for the attack on Poland, it was moved to the Baltic Sea to the SNB Bug on Rügen . From July 1941 - after the start of the German attack on the Soviet Union - it was subordinate to Maritime Emergency Service Leader 1 (SNDF 1) in Pillau . In December 1941 she was assigned to the SNDF Mitte and stationed in Thisted on the Limfjord in northern Denmark , and from April 1942 in Vesterø Havn on the island of Læsø in the northern Kattegat .
In August 1944, the Gunther Plüschow, together with the air traffic control ships Boelcke , Greif and Hans Albrecht Wedel, was subordinated to the newly formed distress group 81 in Bug on Rügen , which existed until the end of the war , and its units from October 1944 during the evacuation of Memel and then to the Hannibal company , the evacuation of German refugees and soldiers from East Prussia . Wounded and refugees were evacuated on every trip; On the way back, ammunition and fuel were taken for the troops still fighting.
After the end of the war, the Gunther Plüschow was awarded as spoils of war by the Soviet Union . From 1946 she was in service as the salvage ship Kodor in the Black Sea Fleet . From March 1947 it served as a Prut floating crane . The old ship was segregated and scrapped in 1978.
literature
- Dieter Jung, Berndt Wenzel, Arno Abendroth: Ships and boats of the German sea pilots 1912-1976. 1st edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1977, ISBN 3-87943-469-7 .
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 - Volume 7: The ships and boats of the German sea pilots. Bernard & Graefe, Munich, 1982.
- Volkmar Kühn (di Franz Kurowski ): The sea emergency service of the German Air Force 1939–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-87943-564-2 , ISBN 978-3-87943-564-7 .