Consul Reepen

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Consul Reepen
Consul Reepen during construction (ship on the far right on the slipway)
The Consul Reepen in building (ship far right on the slipway)
Ship data
flag Nazi stateNazi state German Empire
other ship names

Elbe

Ship type Fish steamer
home port Bremerhaven
Owner Shipping company Hochseefischerei J. Wieting
Shipyard Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser , Bremerhaven
Build number 101
Launch July 11, 1914
Whereabouts Sunk in the Weser estuary after being hit by a mine on September 8, 1944
Ship dimensions and crew
length
40.25 m ( Lüa )
width 7.08 m
Draft Max. 2.78 m
displacement 475 t
measurement 237 GRT
 
crew 13
Machine system
machine Three cylinder triple expansion machine
Machine
performance 		450 hp (331 kW)
Top
speed 		10.0 kn (19 km / h)
propeller 1

The Konsul Reepen was a fish steamer built in 1914 , which was drafted by the navy after completion and served as a war lightship and outpost boat . After the First World War it operated as a fishing steamer and was drafted into the Navy again in the Second World War . In 1941 the navy returned the ship to the shipping company , in 1944 it sank after being hit by a mine.

Construction and technical data

The ship was used for the shipping company Sea Fishing J. Wieting 1914 in the shipbuilding company Unterweser in Bremerhaven - Lehe under the hull number 101 on down Kiel and ran on 11 July 1914 from the stack .

Her length was 40.25 meters, she was 7.08 meters wide and had a draft of 2.78 meters. Their tonnage was 475 tons or 237 GRT . The drive consisted of a three-cylinder triple expansion machine of Ottensener Maschinenfabrik in Altona , the 450 PS generated and applied to a screw worked. With this the ship reached 10 knots. At this speed it had a range of 4480 nautical miles . In the Imperial Navy she had a crew of 13 officers and men. As armament, it initially carried a 37-mm revolver cannon , from December 21, 1915 a 52-mm rapid fire gun , then in 1918 an 88-mm and a 37-mm gun and two depth charges.

history

After delivery and commissioning on July 31, 1914, the ship received the fishing license number BX 124 , but was immediately handed over to the Imperial Navy . This assigned the ship to a position on the Jade as war lightship D after the beginning of the First World War on August 2 . A year later, on September 24, 1915, it was assigned to the Ems Coast Guard Division, and in January 1918 to the 2nd Escort Flotilla / VII. Semi-flotilla as an outpost boat.

After the end of the First World War, the shipping company received the ship back on November 26, 1918, which it now used for fishing. In 1930 the consul Reepen received the fishing license number ON 122 , and on September 4, 1934, when it was taken over by the "Nordsee" Deutsche Hochseefischerei AG in Wesermünde, the license number PG 433 . This renamed the steamer on November 13, 1935 in Elbe with the designation PG 433 .

After the beginning of the Second World War , the Kriegsmarine took over the ship and assigned it to the Seelöwe company , the planned invasion of Great Britain, on August 9, 1940 . As early as March 7, 1941, the Navy returned the ship to the owner. On September 8, 1944, the Elbe ran into a mine in the mouth of the Weser and sank.

literature

  • Wolfgang Walter: German fish steamer. Technology, development, use, ship register. Carlsen Verlag / Die Hanse, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-551-88517-6 .
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 5: Auxiliary Ships II: Hospital Ships, Residential Ships, Training Ships, Research Vehicles, Port Service Vehicles. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-7637-4804-0 .
  • Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 8/1: River vehicles, outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection associations (part 1). Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-7637-4807-5 .
  • Werner Beckmann: The shipping companies of the deep sea and herring fisheries in Bremerhaven. (= Special publications of the Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern. New series. Volume 40). Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-931771-40-7 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ List of ships of the Schiffbaugesellschaft Unterweser AG ( memento of March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), on the Wieting shipping company cf. Beckmann, p. 190.
  2. ↑ Erich Gröner et al .: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 5, 1988, p. 244; Erich Gröner and others: The German warships 1815–1945. Volume 8/1, p. 226; Lloyd's Register: http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=31a0313.pdf
  3. ↑ Erich Gröner et al .: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 5, 1988, p. 246.