Kong Gudrød
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The Kong Gudrød (other names: Estonia , Volker Waap , Mönkedamm , Overbeck , Boom , Eftychia , Phaedra ) was a passenger and cargo ship built in 1910 with an unusually long and eventful career. It drove successively under the Norwegian , Estonian , Soviet , German war and trade , Belgian and Greek flags, and perhaps also under the Filipino . In World War II it was twice (!) Of the German Navy applied and from 1941 under the name of Estonia as a barge and auxiliary speedboat tender ship used.
Pre-war period
The ship was built in 1910 with hull number 143 at the Trondhjems Mekaniske Værksted (TMV) shipyard in Trondheim ( Norway ) for the Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab (NFDS) shipping company in Trondheim, delivered in September 1910 and put into service under the name Kong Gudrød . The ship was 69.2 m long (over all; 65.62 m in the waterline ) and 9.4 m wide and had a draft of 6.65 m . It was measured with 1091 GRT and 648 NRT and displaced 1000 tons. A triple expansion steam engine from TMV allowed a top speed of 12.5 knots . The ship was approved for 242 passengers in coastal traffic and 100 passengers in international traffic. The construction costs amounted to 432,000 NKr .
The Kong Gudrød was one of the last conventional combination ships built in Norway . It was used in passenger and freight services between Hamburg and Kirkenes in Finnmark , and partly on the coastal route between Oslo and Northern Norway. When the Hurtigruten ship Haakon Adalstein , built in 1873, had to be retired and replaced in the late 1920s , the choice fell on the Kong Gudrød , which served on the Hurtigruten from 1930 to 1935 with a few interruptions. Some modifications were made for this task; so that was the bridge increased by one floor, and on the back deck was a smoking - Lounge built.
In January 1936 the ship was sold to the shipping company Pärnu Laeva A / S in Pärnu ( Estonia ), which used it under the new name Estonia in the liner service between Tallinn and Stockholm .
Second World War
On December 10, 1939, during a voyage from Tallinn to Stockholm, the ship was seized by the German mine ship Tannenberg , examined, manned by a prize squad and taken to Swinoujscie on December 12 . The ship had 185 passengers, 247 packages of mail and 221 tons of general cargo (including fresh meat, fish and chickens) on board. The trade surveillance office (Hüst.) Swinoujscie declared the ship to be a prize , the perishable goods were released for German use, 91 Polish and one British citizen among the passengers were interned , the rest released. Only on January 10, 1940, the ship with its crew and remaining cargo was released.
After the official annexation of Estonia by the Soviet Union on August 6, 1940, Estonia was also confiscated , officially nationalized in October, and then operated by the Estonian State Shipping Company in Tallinn.
Navy
On the night of June 21-22, 1941, immediately after the start of the German attack on the Soviet Union , the ship was on its way from Riga to Stockholm by the German express boats S 27 and S 28 in Irbenstrasse , where they were with the 5. Schnellbootflotille had laid a mine barrier and brought it to Turku on June 23rd . The 30 men of the crew with Captain AI Adamson became prisoners of war . In Turku, the ship was used as a barge by the 1st speedboat flotilla from the next day; this unauthorized commissioning was approved retrospectively on July 3rd by the Northern Group of the Navy . On August 22, 1941, the ship was released for German use by the Oberprisenhof Berlin. On September 19, 1941, it was managed by the shipping company Schmidt, Witte & Co., the Baltic German majority shareholders of the former Pärnu Laeva A / S, which had moved to Danzig at the beginning of 1941, and entered in the shipping register in Danzig.
The Navy requisitioned the ship on September 25th and put it into service as an escort ship for the 5th Schnellbootflotille. On April 1, 1942, it switched to the 7th Schnellbootflotille in Swinoujscie. In 1943 it was used as a residential ship for the Naval Air Defense School I and for short courses for submarine weapons in Swinoujscie.
After years of negotiations between the Kriegsmarine, Deutsche Umsiedlungs-Treuhand GmbH , the Reichskommissariat Ostland and the former owners of Estonia , a shipping company for the ship was finally founded in 1944 . On January 1, 1945, the Estonia was handed over to the new shipping company or to Schmidt, Witte & Co. and at the same time again captured by the Navy for the Naval Air Defense School I in Swinoujscie. In February 1945 the ship was relocated to Kiel-Wik , where it was used as a residential ship for Flak School IV. It was severely damaged in the Allied air raids on Kiel, and its poor condition prevented it from being given away as spoils of war or as reparations after the war.
post war period
The ship was in on 27 September 1945 Borgstedter Enge (the old riverbed of the Eider ) in Rendsburg launched . It was registered as a total loss at the War Damage Office for maritime shipping, but received the identifier X 2050 and remained where it was. It was not until 1952, after the shipping restrictions imposed on Germany had been relaxed, that the ship was bought by the Carl Wasp shipping company from Heikendorf , renamed Volker Waap , and taken to the Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg for repair and conversion. It received a new fore and aft, which extended the ship to 72.3 m, and a 7-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine from Sulzer from 1942 . When the shipping company went bankrupt in April 1953, the half-finished ship was taken over by the main creditor, Landesbank & Girozentrale Schleswig-Holstein, who sold it on to the S. Stein shipping company in Hamburg in 1954. This renamed the ship Mönkedamm and had the conversion completed. The commissioning of the 1163 BRT (712 NRT) motor cargo ship took place in July 1954. In 1956 the machine was replaced by a 1200 HP 8-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine from Sulzer, which allowed a speed of 11 knots.
From October 7, 1957, the 1662 tdw ship was used to transport cars to Sweden : two to three times a week it brought an average of 170 wagons from Lübeck to Trelleborg or Stockholm . A momentous accident occurred on November 7, 1957, when the Mönkedamm collided with the Swedish steamer Monestra about 15 nm south - southwest of the Swedish island of Utklippan , which then sank. In 1963 the ship was sold to the Lübeck Line from Lübeck and renamed Overbeck , but remained in service as a car transporter between Lübeck and Sweden.
On June 13, 1967, the ship was sold to the Belgian company Ferdinand Carron in Boom and renamed Boom . In the same year the boom was started by the Antwerp Kustvaart Mij. Taken over in Antwerp . On January 2nd, 1968 she was resold to Greece, to the shipping company G. Tzortzis, K. Sykias & P.Bouldournis in Piraeus . It was now called Eftychia , then renamed Phaedra in 1970 .
Whereabouts
The further whereabouts not certain. The ship was probably scrapped in 1974 and deleted from the register on February 6, 2004.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The shipping company named all of its ships after Norwegian rulers. Gudrød Bjørnsson was a regional sub-king in Vestfold under Håkon I (around 920–961).
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The shipping company moved on to Hamburg in 1945.
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, May 10, 1954
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, May 11, 1954
- ↑ The 1381 GRT Monestra also had an eventful career. She drove from 1902 to 1916 as a Lulea for the Hamburg shipping company HM Gehrckens (HMG), was stranded off Sweden in 1916, then lifted and put into service for the Swedish owners Svea AB and then Monark AB under the name Kare . From 1942 to 1945 it was operated as Hela by the Danzig shipping company CF Gählnbäck , after it was confiscated by the German Navy under award law, to which it had been handed over as a replacement for the hurricane lost due to the war . After the end of the war it was returned to Sweden and operated under the new name Monestra until 1957 .
- ↑ Entry on Miramar Ship Index
Web links
- Photo of Estonia , 1939
- Photo of the Estonia after the end of the war, with twin flak on the forecastle
- Photo of the Mönkedamm during the transport of VW Beetles to Sweden
- Histories Kong Gudrød, at Hurtigrutemuseet.no (Norwegian) ( Memento from February 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Kong Gudrød (English)
- http://warsailors.com/forum/read.php?1,3046,3051,quote=1
- S-Boats in the Kriegsmarine 1935–1945: The Organization of the S-Boat Weapons ( Memento from November 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )