Habicht (ship, 1898)
the goshawk in the port of Tsingtau (around 1912)
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The Habicht was a port service boat from the Tsingtau shipyard in the German colony of Kiautschou .
history
The goshawk was built in Goran near Glasgow in Scotland in 1898 and was given the name Hawk . On January 14, 1907, the German government shipyard in Tsingtau took over the boat and renamed it Habicht . The shipyard used the boat for the transport tasks in the area of Tsingtau.
During the siege of Tsingtau by the Japanese in World War I , the hawk was sunk on October 31, 1914 in the port entrance of Tsingtau.
literature
- Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945 Volume 7, Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1990, page 225