List of German supply ships
The list of German supply ships contains auxiliary ships of the Kriegsmarine and German navy designated as supply ships .
Navy
The supply ships of the Kriegsmarine mostly bore names of German landscapes:
- Altmark ( launched 1937) , tanker and supply ship, February 1940 in Norway, from August 1940 Uckermark .
- Dithmarschen ( launched 1937 ).
- Warmia ( launched 1939 ), badly damaged on May 10 in the Bay of Biscay.
- Franconia ( launched in 1939 ).
- Kärnten ( launched in 1941 ), tanker and supply ship, captured in the Netherlands in 1940.
- Samland , ex Hansa ( launched 1929 ), bought in 1937 and renamed.
- Spichern , auxiliary supply ship ( launched 1935 ), captured in 1940 and renamed.
- Westerwald ( launched 1937) , from November 1939 Nordmark .
- Friedrich Breme (ship, 1936) ( launched 1936 ), fleet tanker, sunk June 4, 1941.
German Navy
A distinction is made between supply vessels and transporters for the supply ships of the German Navy .
Berlin class (class 702)
The ships Einsatzgruppenversorger Class 702 bear names of German cities.
- A1411 Berlin ( launched 1999 )
- A1412 Frankfurt am Main ( launched 2001 )
- A1413 Bonn ( launched 2011 )
Lüneburg class (class 701)
The providers of the Lüneburg class had names of German cities ending in "-burg":
Identifier | Surname | Launch | Decommissioning | Whereabouts | new name |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
A 1411 | Luneburg | 1965 | June 2, 1994 | Sale to Colombia | Caratagena de Indias |
A 1412 | Coburg | 1965 | September 25, 1991 | Sale to Greece | Axios |
A 1413 | Freiburg | 1966 | December 17, 2003 | Sale to Uruguay | General Artigas |
A 1414 | Glücksburg | 1966 | November 1, 2001 | Sale to Egypt | Shalatein (A 230) |
A 1415 | Saarburg | 1966 | April 14, 1994 | Sale to Greece | Aliakmon |
A 1416 | Nienburg | 1966 | March 26, 1998 | Sale to Colombia | Buenaventura |
A 1417 | Offenburg | 1966 | June 30, 1993 | Sale to Spain | scrapped |
A 1418 | Meersburg | 1966 | December 22, 2004 | MArs Wilhelmshaven |
Transport and depot ships
Transport and depot ships carried and still carry names of German landscapes, lakes and low mountain ranges:
- A 1408 fishing ( launched 1954 )
- A 1406 Bodensee ( launched 1955 )
- A 1409 Dithmarschen ( launched 1955 )
- A 1429 Eifel ( launched 1958 )
- A 1440 Emsland ( launched 1944 )
- A 1439 Franconia ( launched 1950 )
- A 1428 Harz ( launched 1953 )
- Y 826 Jeverland ( launched 1937 )
- A 1441 Münsterland ( launched 1943 )
- A 1436 Odenwald ( launched 1966 )
- A 1443 Pfälzerland ( launched 1956 )
- A 1442 Sauerland ( launched 1952 )
- A 1400 Black Forest ( launched 1956 )
- Y 832 Siegerland ( launched 1952 )
- A 1435 Westerwald ( launched 1966 )
- A 1407 Wittensee ( launched 1958 )
- A 1424 Walchensee ( launched 1965 )
- A 1425 Ammersee ( launched 1966 )
- A 1426 Tegernsee ( launched 1966 )
- A 1427 Westensee ( launched 1967 )
- A 1443 Rhön ( launched 1974 )
- A 1442 Spessart ( launched 1975 )
- A 1437 Sachsenwald ( launched 1966 )
- A 1438 Steigerwald ( launched 1967 )
literature
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies: a mirror of the naval history from 1815 to the present, The German warships: Biographies: a mirror of the naval history from 1815 to the present , Edition 3, Mundus Verlag , 1993.
Individual evidence
- ^ Altmark on February 14-16 in the Jössing Fjord (Norway). at wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg (accessed on October 3, 2019)
- ↑ a b c d e The supply ships of the German Navy at wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg (accessed on October 3, 2019)
- ↑ Warmia heavily damaged on May 10, 1942 in the Bay of Biscay. at wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg (accessed on October 3, 2019)
- ↑ Carinthia (1941) at netherlandsnavy.nl (accessed on October 3, 2019)
- ↑ Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships
- ↑ Friedrich Breme (1936) at aukevisser.nl (accessed on October 3, 2019)