Herbert Norkus (ship)
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The Bark Herbert Norkus was planned as the fourth sailing training ship of the Kriegsmarine and was laid down in 1938. The ship belonging to the Gorch Fock class was not completed.
history
In order to train the nautical management personnel required for the fleet, the Kriegsmarine had several sailing training ships built. The construction contract for the Herbert Norkus was awarded to the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg (construction number 524). The Herbert Norkus was to become an identical sister ship to the sailing training ships Horst Wessel and Albert Leo Schlageter . When it came to naming, the leadership of the Kriegsmarine was again guided by the so-called "martyrs" and "blood victims of the Nazi movement", who were revered by the National Socialists and to whom they also included Herbert Norkus , a Hitler youth who was killed in 1932.
The construction of the ship was stopped after the beginning of the Second World War. Since you the slipway for the submarine needed-construction, took place on November 7, 1939, a so-called Notstapellauf . The ship, including the lower masts, was largely completed, but did not yet have a propulsion system. The entire rigging was already in place at this point, but was put into storage; the ship was no longer rigged. The Herbert Norkus remained in the shipyard throughout the war and served as a residential ship for building instruction units. Construction was finally stopped on January 18, 1945.
After the war ended, the ship was confiscated by the British. A planned sale to the Brazilian Navy failed because the ship was too badly damaged during an Allied bombing raid in March 1945. Instead, in 1948, the Brazilians bought the still intact sailing training ship Albert Leo Schlageter from the Americans .
It is unclear whether the Herbert Norkus loaded with poison ammunition was sunk in the Skagerrak in 1947 . An official report from the UK government says this was done without prior loading with poison gas ammunition , while elsewhere reports of a sinking with gas ammunition.
The stored bars and yards were used to build the new Gorch Fock in 1958 .
literature
- Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 2 : Special ships, auxiliary war ships, auxiliary ships, small ship formations . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1968, p. 626-628 .
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 4 : Biographies from Greif to Kaiser . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen 1997, p. 114 (Approved licensed edition by Koehler's publishing company).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bonn City Museum on Naming Practice in National Socialism ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on December 26, 2008.
- ^ History of Herbert Norkus ( memento from September 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on December 26, 2008.
- ^ "Herbert Norkus" sailing training ship (unfinished). ( Memento of October 27, 2002 in the archive.today web archive ) accessed on December 26, 2008.
- ↑ Report on Sea Dumping of Chemical Weapons by the United Kingdom in the Skaggerrak Waters post World War Two (p. 17, Appendix 2) (PDF; 1.4 MB)
- ↑ “VRAK I SKAGERRAK: Sammanfattning av kunskaperna kring miljöriskerna med läckande vrak i Skagerrak” (PDF; 1.7 MB)
- ^ Website of the German Navy on Herbert Norkus , accessed on October 15, 2012.