Lauting (ship, 1934)
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The Lauting was a mine transporter put into service in 1934 for the German Reich and Kriegsmarine .
Was named the ship after the minelayer Lauting , who in September 1914 during the Japanese siege of the German colony of Jiaozhou Bay in the port of Qingdao scuttled had been, or (located within the German colony) to the highest peak of Lao Shan -Gebirges, the 1132 , 7 m high Lauting, east of Tsingtau.
Construction and technical data
The ship was built in 1934 with hull number 778 by the Stettiner Oderwerke in Stettin , just like its sister ship the Rhine . With a length of 53.3 m in the waterline or 56.7 m over everything, a width of 10.4 m and a draft of 4.41 m , it displaced 1252 tons when fully equipped . It was of a four-cylinder diesel engine of Sulzer with 450 PS is driven to start a speed of 9.5 knots enabled. The bunker supply of 35.2 tons of diesel oil resulted in a maximum range of 3000 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 9 knots. The armament consisted only of four 2 cm Flak C / 30 . The crew numbered 40–43 men. The ship could carry 300-370 mines in two holds in front of and behind the mast located amidships with its four cargo booms . The mines were transported in an unusable state. It did not have a mine-throwing device.
history
Navy
The Lauting was assumed after its entry into the lock Zeugamt Wilhelmshaven. Their task was to transport the filled and stored sea mines in the Wilhelmshaven mine depot, from 1938 in the Druhwald Marine Blocking Equipment Office near Wilhelmshaven, to the ports and ships that needed the mines. Few details of their use in World War II are known:
- On December 8, 1939, the outer skin of the destroyer Friedrich Ihn was torn open about 4 m when the Lauting came alongside to port; repairs lasted until the morning of December 10th.
- On 23 and 25 June 1942, the two mining trucks handed Lauting and Irben the minelayer Ostmark and the minelayer Brummer in Dusavik Bay near Stavanger each 160 EMC mines for the minefields "Herzog" and "Grand Duke", which then from the Ostmark and the Brummer were placed west of the Skagerrak .
- From January 19 to 21, 1945 the Lauting was in Norway to supply a mine ship formation that was supposed to lay the mine barrier "Augustus" in the Skagerrak; since the Irben did not arrive on time, the operation was not carried out until March.
post war period
After the end of the war, the Lauting was awarded to the USA as spoils of war. She then initially served until December 8, 1947 in the German mine clearance service in the 2nd transport flotilla of the 2nd mine clearance division responsible for the waters off the German North Sea coast . On January 23, 1948, HAPAG bought the ship from the administration of the American zone of occupation in Germany ( OMGUS ) and sailed it as a cargo ship in the North and Baltic Seas . In 1955, HAPAG sold the ship, which was now measured at almost 1000 GRT, to Emder Verkehrsgesellschaft AG (EVAG), which thus acquired its first ship. In October 1961 the Lauting was sold to the Flensburg shipping company and ship brokerage H. P. Vith, which renamed it Alnor .
In 1969 the ship was sold on to the Greek shipowner J. Spannogiannakis, who renamed the ship Kadiani . On March 16, 1969, the Kadiani was shipwrecked in a storm in the North Sea ; she was hooked by the tug Yorkshireman , but sank during the towing trip at Cape Flamborough Head .
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 3: Submarines, auxiliary cruisers, mine ships, net layers and barrier breakers . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1985, ISBN 3-7637-4802-4
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Volume 9: Historical overview, collective chapter landing craft, mine ships, minesweepers, speedboats, training ships, special ships, tenders and escort ships, torpedo boats, supply ships . Mundus Verlag 1999
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ German spelling at that time.
- ↑ Michael Grube: Marine-Sperrzeugamt Druhwald .
- ↑ German mine clearance service
- ↑ theshipslist.com
- ↑ emderhafen.de
- ↑ emderhafen.de
- ↑ The Emder Verkehrsgesellschaft AG was founded in 1913 as an independent subsidiary of HAPAG, but after the war it was owned by the federal government, which was partially privatized in 1954. a. to HAPAG.
- ↑ 1966/67 at Charles D. Holmes & Company Ltd., Beverley (construction number 1006) for the United Towing Company Ltd. built in Hull; 304 GRT, 2800 HP, 11 kn; Sold to Greece in 1981, still in service there as an Atlas until at least 2011 . forums.clydemaritime.co.uk
- ↑ MV Kadiani (+1969) wrecksite.eu