Illiria (ship, 1918)

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Ship data
flag FranceFrance (national flag of the sea) France United Kingdom Albania Italy
United KingdomUnited Kingdom (Naval War Flag) 
AlbaniaAlbania 
ItalyItaly (naval war flag) 
other ship names
  • Lamproie
  • White Diamond
  • Albania
Ship type Patrol boat
class Gardon class
Shipyard Chantier Augustin Normand, Le Havre
Launch January 1918
Whereabouts Wrecked in Italy on June 1, 1958
Ship dimensions and crew
length
49.5 m ( Lüa )
width 7.6 m
Draft Max. 3.3 m
displacement 654 t normal
measurement 410 GRT
Machine system
machine 1 × triple expansion machine with Belleville boiler , diesel engine from 1934
Machine
performance 		550 PS (405 kW)
Top
speed 		11 kn (20 km / h)
propeller 1
Armament

French Navy:

  • 1 × 100 mm gun
  • 1 × 47 mm gun

Italian Navy:

  • 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns

The Illiria was a state yacht that the Regia Marina took over after the Italian occupation of Albania in 1939 and used it as an auxiliary gunboat . The ship was originally the patrol boat Lamproie , built in 1918 for the French Navy , which was initially used as a fishing ship under the same name in 1920 and converted into the Belgian-British yacht White Diamond in 1934 . In 1938 Italy bought the yacht and gave it to King Ahmet Zogu of Albania for his wedding. There it was called Albania . In 1958 the ship was scrapped.

Construction and technical data

In July 1917, the French government ordered nine Gardon- class patrol boats for the Navy , the design of which was based on trawlers in order to achieve high seaworthiness. The Lamproie was one of five ships of this class that were laid down in 1917 at the Chantier Augustin Normand shipyard in Le Havre . The launch of the Lamproie (German: lamprey ) took place in January 1918, delivery to the Navy and commissioning took place on September 8, 1918.

The boat was 49.5 meters long, 7.6 meters wide and had a draft of 3.3 meters. The design displacement was 654 tons or 410 GRT. The drive initially consisted of a triple expansion machine with a Belleville boiler , which was originally intended for the planned and unfinished battleship Flandre and achieved 550 hp. With the conversion in 1934 it got a diesel engine. The machine acted on one screw and reached a top speed of 11 knots. No information is available about the changing crew strengths in their careers. It was armed with a 100 mm and 47 mm gun in the French Navy and two 13.2 mm machine guns in the Italian Navy.

history

Patrol boat and fishing trawler in France

In the French Navy, the Lamproie was only listed as a warship from its commissioning on September 8, 1918 to May 1, 1919. Then the ship's marine career ended again. The unit and locations in which the ship was used during this period must be clarified. At the end of the First World War , the need for patrol vehicles suddenly dropped and the ship was up for sale. It was initially taken out of service and offered for sale in Rochefort on June 17, 1919 . A buyer was found less than a year later. On May 4, 1920, Lascaret & Dupuis from Marseille bought the Lamproie together with its sister ship Goujon and had the two ships converted into fishing trawlers. The lamproie kept its name. In this function, the ship remained in the possession of Lascaret & Dupuis until 1934.

Yacht in Great Britain, Albania and auxiliary gunboat in Italy

In 1934 the fish steamer was sold to the Belgian Baron Baeyenz. He had the ship converted into a yacht, including a new diesel engine. The ship was now named White Diamond and was registered in Great Britain. The actual home port, on the other hand, seems to have been Marseille. No further information is available from this period.

In July 1938, the ship was bought by the Italian government and equipped in a shipyard for use as a royal yacht. Italy donated the ship to the regent for the wedding of Albania's King Zogu I to Geraldine von Apponyi on April 27, 1938. Finally, it must be clarified when or whether it was given the name Albania there or already bore the later known name Illiria . No details are available about the use.

During the Italian occupation of Albania, the Italian army seized Albania and passed it on to the Regia Marina . The navy classified the ship as an auxiliary gunboat, named it Illiria and put it into service on June 1, 1939. During the Second World War the ship was stationed in the Adriatic . There it was used for patrols, served for smaller material and personnel transports and was also used for representative purposes. At the time of the Italian surrender on September 8, 1943, the ship was in Split in the service of the local naval commander of the Dalmatian coast . From there the Illiria drove behind the Allied lines to Brindisi . After Taranto was captured on September 9, 1943, the ship was moved there. In Taranto it was used for small services and decommissioned in February 1944.

After the end of the Second World War, the Illiria was not returned to Albania as intended for unclear reasons, but remained in Italy. The Italian Navy used them until 1949, when they finally decommissioned. For the next few years, the ship was laid up and neglected until it was scrapped in Italy on June 1, 1958.

literature

  • Artur Meçollari, Asllan Zemani: Historia e Flotës Ushtarake Detare [History of the Military Fleet] , in: Tirana Observer, January 22, 2015 ( online version ).
  • Maurizio Brescia: Mussolini's Navy. A Reference Guide to the Regia Marina 1930–1945 , E-Book, Kindle Edition 2012, ISBN 978-184832-115-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.marina.difesa.it/storiacultura/storia/almanacco/Pagine/cannoniere/illiria.aspx , http://www.netmarine.net/g/dossiers/normand/surface.htm
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  5. ↑ http://www.lavocedelmarinaio.com/2016/11/la-reale-marina-albanese-la-cannoniera-illiria-e-altre-cose , http://regiamarinaitaliana.forumgratis.org/index.php?&showtopic = 63
  6. ↑ http://regiamarinaitaliana.forumgratis.org/index.php?&showtopic=63 , http://www.marina.difesa.it/storiacultura/storia/almanacco/Pagine/cannoniere/illiria.aspx , http: // www .lavocedelmarinaio.com / 2016/11 / la-reale-marina-albanese-la-cannoniera-illiria-e-altre-cose , http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net/pages1418/Forum-Pages-d-Histoire -aviation-marine / marine-1914-1918 / patrouilleur-lamproie-sujet_424_1.htm
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