List of ships of the Kriegsmarine with the designation "Schiff"

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The ships of the Kriegsmarine with the designation Schiff were civilian ships which were requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and which, as so-called special ships, were given the designation “ship” and a number as the ship identification. Sometimes the numbers were assigned twice. Often also provided with names, these ships were converted and used for military purposes.

  • Ship 1 = ex Swedish freighter Jupiter , deployed in 1939/40 with the 6th outpost group, from 1940 residential ship ( Hulk ) in Hamburg
  • Ship 2 =?
  • Ship 3 =?
  • Ship 4 = German freighter Wandrahm , deployed in the 5th outpost group in 1939/40, from July 1940 V 1801 , later escort ship Eismeer of the 61st outpost flotilla Tromsø
  • Ship 5 =
  • Ship 5 = ex British freighter Glengarry , planned in 1943 as a commercial sturgeon cruiser Hansa , later used as a cadet training ship
  • Ship 6 =
  • Ship 6 = ex Greek motor sailer MYTILENE 63 , from August 1942 in the 21st submarine hunting flotilla in the Aegean Sea
  • Ship 7 = Freighter Möwe , planned as a submarine trap for the 6th outpost group in 1939, later used as a guide ship
  • Ship 7 = Fischstampfer Wega , deployed from July 1940 on with the 18th outpost group
  • Ship 8 = freighter Birka , deployed in 1939/40 with the 5th outpost group, later converted to a hospital ship
  • Ship 8 = ex Greek motor sailer, from 1942 on with the 21st submarine hunting flotilla in the Aegean Sea
  • Ship 9 = Fischdampfer Koblenz , deployed in 1940 with the 16th outpost group, sunk on April 10, 1940 on a mine near Bergen
  • Ship 10 = German freighter Santa Cruz , converted into a commercial sturgeon cruiser (HSK 4) Thor in 1940 ; sunk on November 30, 1942 in Yokohama in the Uckermark explosion .
  • Ship 11 = ex Estonian freighter Hanonia , used as a mine ship from February to March 1940. In June 1940 the Hanonia became a mine storage ship in Bergen as ship 111
  • Ship 11 = German freighter Ulm , used as a mine-layer from March 31, 1940; Sunk on August 25, 1942 in action with British destroyers (himself).
  • Ship 12 = steamer Dr. Heinrich Wiegand , intended as a TSK 6 submarine trap in 1939 , conversion stopped, used in the Norwegian transport service from August 1940.
  • Ship 13 = fish steamer Saturn (mobilization fish steamer 1), converted into a submarine trap from October 27, 1940 ; from June 1943 in coastal protection and outpost service off Norway.
  • Ship 14 = German freighter Togo , used in 1940 as a mine ship, in 1942 as a commercial sturgeon cruiser (HSK 10) Coronel , from March 1943 converted into a barrier breaker and from October 1943 further converted into a night hunting guide ship Togo .
  • Ship 15 = Freighter Neuss , deployed in the 5th outpost group in 1939/40, deployed as a torpedo firing stand ship from April 25, 1940
  • Ship 16 = German freighter Goldenfels , converted into a trading sturgeon cruiser (HSK 2) Atlantis in 1939 ; sunk on November 22, 1941 off British cruiser Devonshire .
  • Ship 17 = Alster freighter , planned as a TSK 1 submarine trap in 1939 , not used; used in Norway from March 18, 1940
  • Ship 18 = Alteland fishing steamer , deployed in 1940 with the 16th outpost group to support the advancing German troops in the Soerfjord as far as Vaksdal .
  • Ship 19 =
  • Ship 19 = Bulgarian freighter Rila , deployed in 1942 as a submarine hunter in the Black Sea.
  • Ship 20 = German freighter Nerissa , deployed in the 5th outpost group in 1939/40; from May 30, 1940 briefly test ship of the Luftwaffe and from December 1940 back in commercial service.
  • Ship 21 = German freighter Neumark , converted into a commercial sturgeon cruiser (HSK 3) Widder in 1939 ; rebuilt after HSK use and used as a workshop ship from November 14, 1940 .
  • Ship 22 =?
  • Ship 23 = German freighter Cairo , converted into a trading sturgeon cruiser (HSK 6) Stier in 1939 ; on September 27, 1942 (self) sunk in action with US Liberty freighter Stephen Hopkins .
  • Ship 24 = fish steamer Mars (mobilization fish steamer 2), converted into a submarine trap at the end of 1940; from June 1943 in coastal protection and outpost service off Norway.
  • Ship 25 =?
  • Ship 26 = fish steamer Julius Pickenpack , deployed in 1940 with the 18th outpost group; captured by British destroyer HMS Griffin on April 26, 1940 and brought to Scapa Flow.
  • Ship 27 = German freighter Messina , planned as a TSK 3 submarine trap in 1939 , no modification; used as a submarine escort ship from May 1, 1940
  • Ship 28 = ex Polish freighter Bielsko , planned as hospital ship Bonn in 1940, converted into a commercial sturgeon cruiser (HSK 9) Michel in 1941
  • Ship 29 = ex Swedish freighter Tuskur (1163 BRT), used in 1944 as a Lola submarine trap in the Aegean Sea
  • Ship 30 =?
  • Ship 31 = Fischdampfer Jupiter (Mobilmachungs-Fischdampfer 3), converted into a submarine trap at the end of 1940
  • Ship 32 =?
  • Ship 33 = German freighter Kandelfels , converted in 1940 to a commercial sturgeon cruiser (HSK 5) Pinguin
  • Ship 34 =?
  • Ship 35 = Freighter Oldenburg , used in the 6th outpost group as a TSK 5 submarine trap in 1939/40 , sunk on April 14, 1940 by a British submarine
  • Ship 36 = German freighter Kurmark , rebuilt in 1939 as a commercial sturgeon cruiser (HSK 1) Orion , used as an artillery training ship Hektor after HSK deployment
  • Ship 37 = Fischdampfer Schleswig , deployed in 1940 with the 16th outpost group for submarine hunting; sunk on April 26, 1940 by British warships off Romsdalfjord (Norway).
  • Ship 38 =?
  • Ship 39 =?
  • Ship 40 = Dampfer Schürbek , used in the 6th outpost group as TSK 2 submarine trap in 1939/40 , later converted to a barrier breaker
  • Ship 41 = German freighter Styria , converted in 1940 into a trade sturgeon cruiser (HSK 8) Kormoran
  • Ship 42 =?
  • Ship 43 = German freighter Capri , planned as a TSK 4 submarine trap in 1939 , later used as a test ship
  • Ship 44 = ex Greek motor sailer, from 1942 with the 21st submarine hunting flotilla in the Aegean Sea
  • Ship 45 = German freighter Ems , converted in 1940 into a commercial sturgeon cruiser (HSK 7) Komet
  • Ship 46 =?
  • Ship 47 = fish steamer Wilhelm Huth , deployed in 1940 with the 18th outpost group
  • Ship 48 =?
  • Ship 49 = ex Dutch freighter Amerskerk , converted to commercial sturgeon cruiser 12 in 1943, but not used in this function.
  • Ship 50 = ex French Canal ferry Rouen , used in 1941 as the Wullenwever mine ship .
  • Ship 50 = ex Greek motor sailor SAMOS 13 , from August 1942 in the 21st submarine hunting flotilla in the Aegean Sea
  • Ship 51 = ex Yugoslav warship Zmaj , used in 1942 as a mine ship and helicopter test ship Drache in the Aegean Sea.
  • Ship 52 = ex British canal ferry Newhaven , planned in 1940 as the Skorpion mineship , used as V 1601 and as a guide and accommodation ship for outpost flotillas
  • Ship 53 = ex British freighter Speybank , used in 1942 as a mine ship and blockade breaker Doggerbank
  • Ship 57 = German freighter Neumark , converted into a commercial sturgeon cruiser (HSK 3) in 1939, Ship 21; from May 7 to July 3, 1940 temporarily renamed ship 57 for an unexplained reason.
  • Ship 111 = ex Swedish freighter Britt , 1940 used as a mine storage facility in the port protection flotilla Bergen in Norway, but from May 1940 used as a coal ship Leba at the Wilhelmshaven navy shipyard
  • Ship 111 = ex Estonian freighter Hanonia . After decommissioning as mine-laying ship 11 in June 1940, the badly damaged Hanonia was used up as a mine warehouse in Bergen .
  • Ship 171 = German freighter Dresden , from 1941 stage supplier for auxiliary cruiser Atlantis and blockade breaker Doggerbank
  • Ship 221 = ex Norwegian whaling boat Veslegut (H-181-H), put into service on April 17, 1940 and used during the advance into the sea area south of Bergen, into the Hardangerfjord and against the Norwegian bases in Uskedal and Ulvik. From May 12, 1941, deployed in coastal defense and outpost service off Norway.

literature

  • Hans H. Hildebrand, Walter Lohmann: The German Navy 1939-1945. Structure, commitment, staffing . Podzun: Bad Nauheim 1956–1964
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maas: Special ships 1939–1945 . In: The German warships 1815-1945 (DDK). Bernard & Graefe: Koblenz 1998, Volume 8/2, pp. 533-538
  • Roger Jordan: The World's Merchant Fleet, 1939 . Chatham, London 1999, ISBN 1-55750-959-X
  • Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung: The ships of the German Navy and Air Force 1939–1945 and their whereabouts. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3763762159 .
  • Werner Rahn, Gerhard Schreiber, Hansjoseph Maierhöfer (eds.): War Diary of the Naval War Command 1939–1945. Published on behalf of the Military History Research Office in conjunction with the Federal Archives-Military Archives and the Navy Officers Association. 68 volumes. Mittler, Herford et al. 1990-1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On October 23, 1939 by the destroyer Max Schultz applied in the North Sea and a pinch introduced
  2. ^ Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, researched on September 5, 2016
  3. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 5, p. 89.
  4. ↑ Hildebrand / Lohmann, Chapter 65, p. 79.
  5. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 4, p. 73.
  6. ↑ no evidence of awarding 1939/1940
  7. ↑ no evidence of awarding 1939/1940
  8. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 535.
  9. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 4, p. 42.
  10. ↑ Hildebrand / Lohmann, chap. 65, p. 90.
  11. ↑ No evidence
  12. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 5, p. 39.
  13. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 535.
  14. ↑ Hildebrand / Lohmann, chap. 65, p. 88.
  15. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 537.
  16. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 536.
  17. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 164.
  18. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 3, p. 165.
  19. ↑ Hildebrand / Lohmann, Chapter 65, p. 79.
  20. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 536; Volume 4, p. 62.
  21. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 5, p. 536.
  22. ↑ Hildebrand / Lohmann, chap. 65, p. 88.
  23. ↑ no evidence of awarding 1939/1940
  24. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maas, Volume 3, p. 164.
  25. ↑ Hildebrand / Lohmann, Chapter 65, p. 79.
  26. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 536.
  27. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 165.
  28. ↑ Hildebrand / Lohmann, chap. 65, p. 90.
  29. ↑ Chronicle of the Naval War, April 1940
  30. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 536.
  31. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maas, Volume 3, p. 164.
  32. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maas, Volume 4, p. 72.
  33. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 165.
  34. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 537.
  35. ↑ Hildebrand / Lohmann, chap. 65, p. 88.
  36. ↑ Chronicle of the Naval War, April 1940
  37. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 537.
  38. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 536, Volume 5, p. 173.
  39. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 535.
  40. ↑ Hildebrand / Lohmann, chap. 65, p. 90.
  41. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 8, p. 535.
  42. ↑ Prize of the auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
  43. ^ War Diary Admiral Norwegian West Coast
  44. ^ Sole evidence: Forum Naval Archives, article from October 9, 2006
  45. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 4, p. 96 see " Leba "
  46. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 3, p. 193.
  47. ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass, Volume 4, p. 236; Roger Jordan, p. 468.
  48. ↑ Historical naval archive: Operation Weser Exercise