Korsnes (ship, 1936)
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The Korsnes was a Norwegian cargo steamer with an eventful history. It was raised as a prize by the German Navy in 1939, deployed under the German flag in Norway in 1940, bombed on fire by British carrier aircraft in 1944 and grounded by the crew , lifted after the war and restarted under the Norwegian, later German, flag.
Construction and technical data
The ship was at the shipyard from 1935 Rosenberg Mekaniske Verksted in Stavanger , Norway , with the hull number 145 laid Kiel . It was launched on March 3, 1936 from the pile and was established in June 1936, the shipping company Dampskibsselskabet A / S NOR Kristian Jebsen in Bergen delivered. The 79.5 m long and 12.55 m wide ship had a draft of 5.3 m and was measured at 1,741 GRT or 998 NRT . The load capacity was 2,550 tons. A two-cylinder compound steam engine from Bergens Mekaniske Verksted with an engine output of 164 nhp enabled a speed of 9 knots . The crew numbered 18 men.
Her sister ship the Telnes , which is somewhat smaller with 1694 GRT , was delivered in October 1936 by Rosenberg Mekaniske Verksted ( hull number 146). The Telnes was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 55 on January 19, 1940, northwest of the Orkneys , on its way from New York to Rotterdam and Antwerp . The entire crew of 18 men was killed.
career
The Korsnes traveled in tramp shipping from northwest Europe to the Mediterranean and North America . On October 8, 1939, it was applied on the voyage from Malmö to Baltimore during the navigation checks carried out by the Navy in the Skagerrak and Kattegatt and brought to Germany by a prize crew . The reason was her cargo of cellulose , which - since it could also be used to manufacture gun cotton - was viewed by the Navy as a contraband , especially since the ship, although officially on the voyage between two neutral states, wanted to bunker coal in Sydney, Canada . The Prisenhof Hamburg released the ship in January 1940 (the cargo was confiscated and released for use by interested German parties), but the Reich Commissioner at the Prisenhof , Vice Admiral zV Alexander Werth , appealed to the Oberprisenhof in Berlin, and the Korsnes had to continue in Hamburg stay.
The whereabouts of the ship had not yet been finally decided at the time of the German occupation of Norway in April 1940. Since all available and suitable shipping space was needed to supply the German troops in Norway, the Korsnes lying in Hamburg was also used and requisitioned on May 28th and renamed Pregel . Soon afterwards she drove to Bergen with coal . In August the ship was provisionally cleared, and soon afterwards the ship, now again known as Korsnes , was sailing again under the Norwegian flag, but on behalf of Germany as a supplier, mostly with coal, in Norwegian waters.
In November 1944, she suffered machine damage in northern Norway that could not be repaired with the resources available on site, and she was sent south to hang up . The ship drove in " Convoy 410" with the prisoner transporter Rigel , secured by the two outpost boats V 6115 Helgoland and V 6308 Saturn . On the morning of November 27, the small convoy between the islands of Tjøtta and Søndre Rosøya , north of Namsos , was broken by one Discovered an aircraft launched by the British aircraft carrier Implacable , whose crew thought the Rigel was a troop transport because of the many people on deck . This prompted 11.00 am, an attack of 16 Fairey Firefly dive-bombers and Supermarine Seafire fighter aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm of the Implacable . The two outpost boats were quickly incapacitated. The Rigel caught fire after being hit by a bomb and began to sink over the stern . Her captain managed to set the ship aground about 100 meters off the east coast of Søndre Rosøya. Nevertheless, only a small minority of the people on board - 267 of 2,838 - were able to save themselves on land. 2571 were killed.
The Korsnes was also badly hit, caught fire and was set aground by her crew, who lost six people.
It was lifted in August 1945, repaired in Bergen in 1946 and sold in September 1946 to the shipowner Oluf Skjelbred-Knudsen (1907–1978) in Kristiansand , who renamed it Patria and with her and little Lyngdal (140 GRT) the Dampskibsselskabet Patria A / S established. In April 1950 Skjelbred-Knudsen transferred the ship to Skjelbreds Rederi A / S, founded by his grandfather Oluf Andreas Tollefsen Skjelbred (1854-1939) and continued by his father Kristian Bernhard Knudsen (1877-1961), of which he became co-director in 1953. In 1957 the ship was sold to from Elbing dating Reederei August Zedler in Lübeck sold in Kahlenberg renamed and continue to be used in the tramp shipping.
In December 1965 the Kahlberg was sold to the Eisen und Metall AG and broken up in Hamburg .
Footnotes
- ↑ Miramar Ship Index, Korsnes, IMO 5178486 , accessed February 2, 2020
- ↑ Jebsen was also the owner of Kristian Jebsen Rederi A / S. His ships had a black hull and a black funnel with a black zigzag line in a wide white band.
- ↑ http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/telnes.html
- ^ Roger Jordan: The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939: The Particulars And Wartime Fates of 6000 Ships. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1999, ISBN 1-59114-959-2 , p. 314
- ↑ 61. Outpost Flotilla, Bodø, 534 GRT
- ↑ 63. Outpost Flotilla, Narvik, Mob fish steamer 1 Saturn , 869 t
- ↑ Lyngdal , built in 1912, was used by the Norwegian Navy as a guard boat from September 1939 , then from April 1940 by the German Navy as a port protection boat NK.08 with the port protection flotilla Kristiansand S and then from December 1940 until the end of the war as an outpost boat V 5515 with the 55th outpost flotilla , from June 1, 1944 V 5515 Ulan was used. ( http://www.warsailors.com/homefleet/shipsl.html )
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/vboote/vp-frames.htm
Web links
- http://www.warsailors.com/homefleet/shipsk.html#korsnes
- http://www.sjohistorie.no/portal/skip/k/Korsnes?distrikt=None
- http://www.schiffswrackliste.de/BRT%201944.htm
literature
- Atle Thowsen: Handelsflåten i krig 1939 - 1945, Nortraship, profitt og patriotime . Grøndahl og Dreyers, Oslo, 1992, ISBN 82-504-1895-6