Habicht (ship, 1938)

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The Habicht was a combination ship built in 1938 by the German Argo shipping company Richard Adler & Co. , which was used by the Navy as a pilot mother ship and as a guard ship during the Second World War and, after the war, first sailed under the Dutch and finally the South African flag until 1961 .

Construction and technical data

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The ship was on March 8, 1938, the North Sea works Emden with the hull number 187, stack . It was 75.33 m long and 12.04 m wide, had a draft of 4.60 m and was measured with 1577 GRT and 763 NRT. A 2-cylinder compound steam engine with a low-pressure steam turbine from Deschimag produced 1100 PSi and a speed of 16 knots via a shaft . The ship had space for 40 passengers . The crew numbered 26 men.

Sister ship was the Adler (1494 BRT) built in 1938 by the Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft , which was also requisitioned by the Navy in 1939 , but was only used as a transporter for wounded in 1944. Slightly smaller half-sisters were the Heron (1304 GRT) and Schwan (1311 GRT) built by Howaldtswerke AG in Kiel in 1938 .

career

Pre-war period

The Habicht was put into service by the Argo shipping company on May 2, 1938 and sailed between Bremen and Hull in northern England until August 1939 .

Second World War

Shortly before the start of the war, she was requisitioned by the Navy and assigned as the pilot mother ship Habicht I to the Sperrlotsenverband der Ostsee (Sperrlotsenverband Ost). When the Sperrlotsenverband Ost was renamed the Guard Association of the Baltic Sea Accesses (Bewa Ost) on August 1, 1940 , the ship was given the new designation Wachschiff 1 . On August 18, 1942, the Bewa Ost was disbanded and the guard ship 1, Habicht came under the new designation V 1921 to the 19th outpost flotilla , which continued to operate in Danish waters. The flotilla was reclassified to the 5th security flotilla on October 1, 1943, and then on February 15, 1944 the ship was given the name Sperrwachschiff and the number Vs 516 . From August 15 to November 15, 1944, the ship was moored for overhaul in Aarhus , and during this time it was placed under the command of the Intelligence Testing Command (NEK) as a test ship on October 13, 1944. On December 14, 1944, it caught fire in a Soviet air raid on the port of Libau after a bomb hit and was set aground. However, it was lifted again and at the end of the war in May 1945 was in Kiel for repairs , where it was British spoils of war.

Post-war years

The ship laid up in Kiel was finally awarded to the Netherlands as a reparation payment and handed over in Kiel on June 20, 1947. It was then at the shipyard of Wilton Fijenoord in Schiedam for the shipping company Maatschappij Zeevaart (Hudig & Veder) in Rotterdam for cattle truck rebuilt. It was now measured with 1214 GRT and 529 NRT and had a load capacity of 1427 tdw . From July 1948 it operated under the new name Hagno on the Dublin- Rotterdam route , bringing up to 360 Irish oxen and cows to the Netherlands for slaughter on each journey .

In 1953, Hagno was sold to Smith's Coasters (Pty.) Ltd. in Durban , South Africa , and renamed Induna . It was launched in Durban in 1961 and then sold to K. Nathan (Pty.) Ltd. in January 1962. sold for demolition in Durban.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://212.227.236.244/passagierlisten/passagen.php?lang=de&schiff=Habicht
  2. ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/vboote/vp-frames.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/sichverb/sifl-ost.htm
  4. ↑ Vs = outpost security boat.
  5. ↑ Named after an ancient Greek nymph .

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