Hugo Zeye (ship)

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The Hugo Zeye was a torpedo training ship of the German Navy in World War II . The ship was named after Vice Admiral Hugo Zeye (1852-1909), inspector of torpedo operations in the Imperial Navy from 1903 to 1909.

Construction and technical data

The ship was at the shipyard in 1938 AG Neptun in Rostock on down Kiel . It was to be the fourth and last ship of a class of Turkish combi-ships , the first three of which had been delivered before the war began. The fourth ship was still under construction at the beginning of the war, was confiscated by the Navy and finally continued to be built as a torpedo training ship . The launch took place on September 14, 1940, the commissioning on July 19, 1942.

The ship was 146 m long (over all; 138 m in the waterline ) and 16 m wide and had a draft of 6.5 m . When fully equipped, the water displacement was 10,750 tons . Two triple expansion steam engines with a total of 9,000 hp enabled a top speed of 18 knots with two screws . The ship was equipped with eight 53.3 cm torpedo tubes in two pivoting groups of four. The rest of the armament consisted only of anti-aircraft cannons : four 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns and up to fourteen 2 cm anti-aircraft guns .

Career and whereabouts

The Hugo Zeye was put into service on July 4, 1942 and assigned to the Higher Command of the Torpedo Schools (HKT), or the school association of the HKT, as a torpedo training ship during the inspection of the torpedo system. It then served in the Baltic Sea to train torpedo personnel on surface ships.

In the last months of the war, the ship took part in the evacuation of Wehrmacht personnel and civilians from East and West Prussia ( Hannibal company ). It ran, fully laden with refugees , on March 14, 1945 northwest of Fehmarn on a mine and sank. With the exception of one crew member and four refugees, all people on board during the sinking were rescued.

Coordinates: 54 ° 33 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 29 ″  E

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Etrüsk (2,992 BRT, 1938), Tirhan (3,085 BRT, 1938) and Kades (3,085 BRT, 1938).
  2. ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/45-03.htm