M 129 (ship, 1919)
M 129 (renamed Otto Braun in 1938 and M 529 in 1941 ) was a minesweeper built in the First World War for the Imperial Navy , but only completed after the end of the war , which was used in the Reichsmarine and the Kriegsmarine .
Construction and technical data
The boat of the type minesweeper in 1916 ran on 15 January 1919 the Reiherstieg shipyard in Hamburg from the stack and was on 20 May 1919 as a minesweeper M 129 into service. The boats of this type were 59.30 m long and 7.30 m wide, had a draft of 2.15 m and displaced a maximum of 630 t . They were armed with two 8.8 cm L / 30 guns and could carry and eject up to 30 mines . Two triple expansion steam engines with a total of up to 1850 hp gave them a top speed of 16.5 knots . The boats were at 14 knots cruising speed a range of 2,000 nautical miles .
career
The boat initially served in the Reichsmarine in mine search and clearance. In the course of the armament of the Kriegsmarine it was rebuilt and on September 10, 1936 assigned to the blocking test command (SVK) in Kiel as a tug and test boat. On August 29, 1938, it was given the new name Otto Braun .
During the German invasion of Poland from September 1, 1939, Otto Braun was , together with the four other test boats of the blocking test commandos ( Arkona , Nautilus , Pelikan and Sundevall ), part of the naval forces, which was led by Captain Friedrich Ruge , the leader of the minesweepers East (FdMO), carried out mine search and security tasks in the Gdańsk Bay . The boat received a hit from a Polish gun battery on the Hela peninsula on September 12 . On September 19, the boat was then - together with the boats M 3 , M 4 , Nettelbeck , Fuchs , Sundevall , Pelikan , Arkona , Nautilus and Drache and the ship of the line Schleswig-Holstein - at the bombardment of the Polish positions near Gdynia (Oxhöfter Kämpe , Ostrowogrund and Hexengrund), which could only then be conquered by army soldiers.
On April 9, 1940, during the occupation of Denmark, Otto Braun belonged to Warship Group 9 , which transported army troops to the occupation of Middelfart and the Belt Bridge .
On June 28, 1941, the boat was renamed M 529 . On December 2, 1941 it was hit by a mine while clearing the western barrier in front of the port of Kołobrzeg, which the Navy had put out to protect against Soviet submarines and sank to position 54 ° 17 ′ N , 15 ° 26 ′ E ; ten men of the crew were killed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The test boats Nautilus (ex M 81 ), Pelikan (ex M 28 ), Arkona (ex M 115 ), Otto Braun (ex M 129 ), Johann Wittenborg (later Sundevall , ex M 109 ), Claus von belonged to the experimental association of the Sperrversuchskommando Bevern (ex V 190 ) and T 155 . See Oliver Krauss: Armaments and armament testing in German naval history with special consideration of the Torpedoversuchsanstalt (TVA). Dissertation, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, 2006, p. 159, fn. 462.
- ↑ Named after Lieutenant Captain Otto Braun, commander of the gunboat Iltis that was stranded in the typhoon on the Chinese coast in 1896 .
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/39-08.htm#SEP
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/39-08.htm#SEP
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/39-08.htm#SEP
- ↑ Historia Gdyni , section Wybuch Wojny - Okupacja - Wyzwolenie
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-04.htm
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/miszellen/41-06-hafensperren.htm
- ↑ A month earlier, on November 3, the sister boat M 511 had sunk while clearing mines in the vicinity after being hit by a mine. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
