HMT Dunera

Dunera

Troop transport Dunera in use 1940

Ship data flag  United Kingdom Ship type Passenger ship training cruise ship Callsign GBBR home port London Shipping company British India Steam Navigation Company Shipyard Barclay, Curle and Company , Glasgow Build number 663 Launch May 10, 1937 takeover August 25, 1937 Whereabouts scrapped in Bilbao in 1967

Ship dimensions and crew length 157.50 m ( Lüa ) width 19.26 m Draft Max. 7.14 m measurement 11,161 GRT / 6,634 NRT

Machine system machine 2 × five-cylinder Doxford-type diesel engines Machine performance 11,880 GB-PS Top speed 16.13 kn (30 km / h) propeller 2

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers Cabin class: 104 Tourist class: 100 Third class: 164 Troops: 1,167

Others Classifications Lloyd's Register of Shipping Registration numbers IMO 5094824

The HMT Dunera (for His Majesty's Transport Dunera ) is a former troop transport that was also used as a passenger ship after the Second World War .

history

The HMT Dunera was built in the second half of the 1930s and transferred to the British India Steam Navigation Company in 1937 . In 1940 she drove British troops from New Zealand to Egypt . It was then used to transport emigrants from Germany and Austria from England (UK), who were considered to be potentially " hostile foreigners ", to Australia for internment under military guard. The later filmed trip with the 2,542 men lasted from July 10, 1940 to September 6 (57 days). In addition to Jewish and political emigrants, there were also 451 interned Germans and Italians or prisoners of war from these countries. These, but also many of the refugees, were interned in Tatura ( Victoria ) or in Hay (New South Wales) for the duration of the war . In 1946, after the war, the Australian government offered all of these persons repatriation or residence in Australia. Shipwrecked people from the torpedoed Arandora Star were also taken in. In Australia, the officer on watch, Lieutenant-Colonel William Scott, was reported by the Commonwealth government quarantine doctor about the conditions of detention.

On board the Dunera were u. a. Joseph Asher , Georg Auer , Horst Barnett b. Blumenthal, Franz Eichenberg , Franz Stampfl , Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack , Wolf Klaphake , Wolfgang Kittel , Henry Talbot , Hans Axel , Eddi Fromm (son of Julius Fromm ), Gerd Buchdahl , Anton Ruh , Georg Teltscher , the former member of the Reichstag, Josef Wiora , Max Carpentry .

On February 18, 1943, the ship entered Jaffa . On board were the so-called Tehran children , over 700 Jewish orphans from Poland who were brought from Persia to Palestine by Henrietta Szold and Hans Beyth .

In September 1942, the ship was involved in the clashes over Madagascar and in the landing in Sicily in 1943 ( Operation Husky ). Later, as part of Operation Dragoon, the headquarters of the US 7th Army were relocated to southern France. In the further course of the war, troops were transported to Japan with him.

post war period

In 1951 the troop transporter was adapted to the requirements of the post-war period and accordingly provided with 123 first class, 95 second class, 100 third class and 831 troop class seats. In 1960 troop transport on board the Dunera was stopped. The ship was converted into the first training cruise ship or training cruise ship with classes, swimming pools, play rooms, library, 187 cabins for adults and 834 children and used for voyages from British ports around Western Europe, Scandinavia and the Soviet Union. In 1967 it was sold to Revalorizacion de Materiales SA for recycling in Bilbao .

Technical specifications

• Load capacity : 3,819 t
• Length: 157.5 m
• Height: 19.3 m
• Draft: 7.1 m
• Engine: two 5-cylinder 2SCSA Doxford-type, 11,880 bhp

literature

• Helen Fry: The King's Most Loyal Enemy Aliens . Germans who fought for Britain in the Second World War. Sutton Publishing, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7509-4700-8 .
• Klaus Wilczynski: The prison ship . With the “Dunera” across four seas. Am Park, Berlin, ISBN 3-89793-044-7 .
• Peter and Leni Gillman, 'Collar the Lot', How Britain interned and expelled its wartime refugees, London (Quartet Books) 1980

Movie

• Ben Lewin (II): The Dunera Boys . With Joseph Spano, Bob Hoskins, Joseph Fürst, a. a. 1985: 150 min.
• John Burgan: Friendly Enemy Alien . Documentary (ZDF) 2006: 90 min.

Web links

• Dunera Association
• Shipping Times (English)
• The Dunera Boys in the IMDb (English)
• Katja Iken: Faithful enemies - warriors against their own fatherland . Around 10,000 Germans fought on the side of the British in World War II - they went down in history as "the king's most loyal enemy". In: one day , July 27, 2008
• The collection from the SS Dunera (in Hay; migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au; Engl.)
• Kriegsgefangenenlager Hay (English)
• Mario Cacciottolo: The Dunera Boys - 70 years on after notorious voyage , BBC News, July 10, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ P&O Heritage, Ship Fact Sheet, Dunera (1937) (english). Retrieved November 28, 2019
2. ^ Photo in the collection from the SS Dunera in Hay
3. ↑ Robert Sincerely - Dunera Internee . Retrieved November 23, 2007.
4. ↑ Maritime Disasters of World War II . Archived from the original on January 27, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2007.
5. ↑ Kate Connolly: Britons finally learn the dark Dunera secret . In: Sydney Morning Herald , May 19, 2006
6. ^ The Dunera Boys synopsis . In: IMDB . Retrieved November 23, 2007.
7. ↑ The complete passenger list can be called up using the search term “Dunera” on the Record Search website of the National Archieves of Australia . Searches by name are also possible there.
8. ↑ Troop Ship to School Ship (english)