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The Kleiss (alternative spelling Kleiß ) was a German auxiliary minesweeper of the Imperial Navy , 1918 along with six other minesweepers and outposts boats in a minefield fell. It was named after the fish of the same name .
history
The Kleiss belonged to a series of auxiliary minesweepers or outpost boats that were commissioned by the Imperial Navy as a fishing steamer during the First World War . She was put into service on August 14, 1916 and assigned to the auxiliary minesweeping flotilla of the North Sea , 1st auxiliary minesweeping flotilla.
On February 2, 1918, as part of a company escorting the submarines SM U 65 and SM U 104 , it sank from a sea attack to position 55 ° 21 N, 07 ° 13 E northwest of Sylt , killing one crew member. As part of the mission, the outpost boats Weddigen , Rheinfels , Anneliese and Brockeswalde as well as the auxiliary minesweepers Seestern and Flensburg continued to sink from February 2nd to 4th due to bad weather conditions, especially due to fog . A total of 140 men died at the company. The historian Gerhard P. Groß saw the following reasons for the unfortunate course of the company:
"Strong and unsafe current transfer in uncertain weather, difficulties in navigating slowly moving escort boats and the urge to bring the submarines to their combat area even in poor weather conditions, had been the driving force behind certain navigational safeguards required in peacetime and the way to pave the way for the enemy with full commitment. The bad experiences with our own barrier at Hornsriff pushed the important problem of preventing the enemy mine blocking with protective barriers in a generous way into the background. "
After Groner was wreck of Kleiss not lifted.
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 , Volume 8/1: river vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection associations (Part 1), Bonn 1993, p. 178, 180. ISBN 3-7637-4807 -5
- Fritz Otto Busch / Georg Günther Frh. Forstner (ed.): War on seven oceans , Berlin (Brunnen-Verlag, Willi Bischoff) 1935, pp. 129-133.
- P (eter) Schubert and a .: The German navies in mine warfare. Volume 1: Historical development - Imperial Navy - Reichsmarine , Rostock 2006. ISBN 3-8334-4330-8
- Gerhard P. Groß (ed.): The war at sea 1914–1918. The War in the North Sea, Volume 7. From the summer of 1917 to the end of the war in 1918. Critical Edition , Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn (Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn), 2006. ISBN 3-8132-0855-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Groß, pp. 236f.