Laks (ship, 1900)

The sister boat Sæl
Overview
Type	Torpedo boat
Shipyard	Carljohansværn Værft , Horten
Launch	July 12, 1900
delivery	1900
Whereabouts	Broken down in 1945
Technical specifications
displacement	83 t, maximum 107 t
length	39.9 m over everything
width	4.8 m
Draft	2.15 m
crew	23 men
drive	2 steam boilers , triple expansion machine 650 hp , 1 screw
speed	17.5 kn
Armament	2 × 37 mm Hotchkiss cannons , 2 × 45 cm deck torpedo tubes
Coal supply	17 t

The Laks was a torpedo boat first class (norw .: Torpedobåt cl. I ) of the Norwegian Navy , which in the Norwegian Navy and from April 1940 to May 1945 1901-1940 in the German Navy under the name of Admiral Deinhardstein , named after Vice Admiral Karl August Deinhard , served.

Construction and technical data

The Laks was the lead ship of her class, to which the Sild , the Sæl and the Skrei belonged. The four boats were largely identical to the three Hval- type boats built in 1896 near Schichau in Elbing for the Norwegian Navy and the three Storm- type sister ships built in Norway afterwards .

The Laks was in 1900 when Carljohansværn Værft which Marinens Hovedværft in Horten to put Kiel , went there on 12 July 1900 from the stack and was put into service the 1,901th The boat was 40.0 m long and 4.90 m wide. It had a draft of 1.10 m in front and 2.10 m in the aft and displaced 80 tons (standard) and 107 tons (maximum). The machine system consisted of two water-tube boilers and a triple expansion steam engine , whose 650 HP enabled a top speed of 17.5 knots via one screw . Up to 17 tons of coal could be bunkered . The armament consisted of two 3.7-cm 5-tube Hotchkiss revolver cannons and two 45-cm torpedo tubes , one between the two funnels, one on the stern. The crew numbered 23 men.

fate

1901-1940

During the political tensions with Sweden in the course of the Norwegian resolution process from the previous personal union with Sweden after the referendum of August 13, 1905, Norway, like Sweden, mobilized its armed forces on September 13. When war threatened in the autumn, the Laks and the other new torpedo boats took part in extensive naval maneuvers and six of them were then stationed in the Oslofjord under the command of the destroyer Valkyrjen to deal with a feared Swedish attack from sea on Oslo and the military and industrial installations in Eastern Norway in cooperation with the four coastal armored ships , the other four 1st class torpedo boats remained in front of Bergen .

During the First World War , the Laks , like the other ships of the Norwegian Navy, served to ensure Norwegian neutrality and in the escort service for merchant ships in Norwegian coastal waters. After the end of the war, until 1927, the boat was mainly used to catch smugglers trying to bring alcohol into the country during the Norwegian prohibition .

1940-1945

The Laks belonged at the time of the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940 with her sister ships Skrei and Sild to that in Trondheim -based and associated with the second Seeverteidigungsabschnitt 5. Torpedo Boat Division. However, this assignment was purely administrative, and each boat operated relatively independently in the stretch of coast assigned to it. The Skrei was on April 9 in Hestvika at the southeast end of the island of Hitra, south of the entrance to the Trondheimfjord ; she was raised by her crew on May 8 in Alesund scuttled ; the Sild was in Kristiansund and was scuttled on May 5th near the island of Harøy ( Sandøy municipality ) west of Molde . The Laks was stationed in Knarlagsund near Hitra, but was in Trondheim on April 9, 1940 for a shipyard stay. There she was captured by the Navy on April 13 and then put into service under the new name Admiral Deinhard . The torpedo tubes and old artillery were removed and the boat was armed with a machine gun and six depth charges in their place. After that it was used as a torpedo air pressure compressor boat and harbor protection boat in the Trondheim harbor association until the end of the war.

After the end of the war, the boat was taken over by the Norwegian Navy and was broken up in 1945.

Boats of the class

boat	Build number	Launch	Commissioning	Whereabouts
Laks	83	July 12, 1900	1901	Captured by the Navy on April 13, 1940 in Trondheim and commissioned as Admiral Deinhard ; returned to Norway in May 1945; Canceled in 1945.
Sild	84	July 30, 1900	1901	Stationed in Bessaker ( Roan commune on the north coast of the Fosen peninsula ); was at the beginning of the German attack in Kristiansund and was self- sunk on May 5, 1940 near the island of Harøy (municipality of Sandøy , west of Molde ) ; lifted by the Navy, repaired and put into service in August 1940 with the Molde harbor protection flotilla as NM 16 Balte ; decommissioned in July 1944. In May 1945 back to Norway and canceled.
Sæl	85	Sept 25, 1901	1902	Stationed in Brandasund ( Bømlo municipality ) at the entrance to the Selbjørnsfjord between Bergen and Haugesund . Sunk on April 18, 1940 in a battle with the two German speedboats S 21 and S 23 in the Hardangerfjord near the island of Ånuglo (about 12 nautical miles northeast of Leirvik ); lifted by the Kriegsmarine, repaired and put into service as NH-3 . In May 1945 back to Norway and canceled.
Skrei	86	Oct 31, 1901	1902	Stationed in Hestvika at the southeast end of the island of Hitra south of the entrance to the Trondheimfjord , lay in Kristiansund on April 9; Sunk by the crew on May 8th near Ålesund ; lifted by the Kriegsmarine, repaired and put into service as NH-1 ; returned to Norway in May 1945 and canceled.

Web links

• http://www.navypedia.org/ships/norway/no_dd_laks.htm

literature

• Jon Rustung Hegland & Johan Henrik Lilleheim: Norske torpedobåter gjennom 125 år. Sjømilitære Samfund ved Norsk Tidsskrift for Sjøvesen, Hundvåg, 1998, ISBN 82-994738-1-0 (norw.)

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ The three boats built at Schichau, the Hval , Delfin and Hai , had, however, a considerably more powerful machine system that made 1100 hp and 21 knots.
2. ^ Jacob Børresen: Sjømilitære krigsforberedelser i ytre Oslofjord summer 1905. Vestfold University College and Borre Historical Society. Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (norw.) (accessed February 25, 2012) 
3. ^ Organization of Norwegian Marine Forces ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-04.htm
5. ↑ Named after Vice Admiral Karl August Deinhard (1842-1892).
6. ↑ http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/captured/torpedoboats/admiraldeinhard/index.html