The ship was on 17 October 1906, the hull number 575 at the shipyard Oderwerke in Szczecin from the stack . The commissioning took place on November 19, 1906 with the fishing license plate SD 39 . The Kehdingen was used as a fishing vessel until the outbreak of the First World War.
In August 1914, the Imperial Navy used the ship for auxiliary services in accordance with the War Act of 1873 and integrated it into the North Sea outpost flotilla . By early 1916 at the latest, the ship, together with the outpost boats Bismarck and Dithmarschen, became part of the Schlieder special group , which was deployed in the western and northern North Sea for fighting submarines , reconnaissance and destruction of submarine cables . The Kehdingen was also used as a submarine trap with the legend of a Dutch fish steamer. On November 17, 1917, she got into a battle with British destroyers 50 nautical miles northwest of Heligoland during the Second Sea Battle near Heligoland and was sunk. Seven men of the crew were killed. The last commandant was Lieutenant to the Sea Hermann von Bredow.
literature
Erich Gröner u. a .: The German warships 1815–1945 , Vol. 8/1: River vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats , auxiliary minesweepers , coastal protection associations , Munich 1993.
Fritz-Otto Busch / Georg Günther Freiherr von Forstner (eds.): War on seven oceans ( Our Navy in World War I , Vol. 2), Berlin 1935, pp. 142–148.
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