M 134 (ship, 1919)
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M 134 was a minesweeper of the 1916 type, which served under different names - M 134 , Frauenlob , M 534 , Jungingen - and in various functions in the German Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine until it was sunk in 1943.
Construction and technical data
The boat was still during the First World War in 1918 Frerichswerft in Einswarden to put Kiel . It went there on 28 July 1919 as a minesweeper M 134 from the stack and is provided by the Imperial Navy into service on March 19, 1920th The boat had a length of 57.80 m in the waterline and 59.30 m over all, was 7.30 m wide and had a draft of 2.20 m . The water displacement was 506 t (standard) and 535 t (maximum). The armament consisted of two 10.5 cm L / 45 guns, and up to 30 mines could be carried. Two 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines with a total of 1750 hp and two screws enabled a top speed of 16.0 knots . The bunker supply of 130 tons of coal yielded a range of 2,000 nautical miles at 14 knots cruising speed. The crew consisted of 40 men.
history
From its commissioning on March 12, 1920 to September 10, 1920, the boat was the command boat of the II. North Sea Minesweeping Flotilla, only then came to the VI. and then to the III. Flotilla, and was transferred as a tender to the North Sea naval station on September 30, 1921 . In the latter function, it also provided fisheries protection in the North Sea at times . On March 11, 1928, the boat was renamed Frauenlob , in honor of the small cruiser SMS Frauenlob , which sank in the Battle of the Skagerrak on May 31, 1916 . On June 1, 1928, the boat received the official name "Station tender".
After the start of the Second World War , the boat was reclassified as a minesweeper again on September 3, 1939 with its previous number M 134 and assigned to the 4th minesweeping flotilla, which was newly set up from ten old minesweeper boats in 1916 and carried out mine and escort service in the North Sea . The boat took part in the occupation of Denmark on April 9, 1940 , when the 4th minesweeping flotilla landed as part of the so-called "Kriegsschiffgruppe 11" army troops in Thyborøn at the western end of the Limfjord .
After that, the M 134 was in service with the 4th Flotilla in Norway . On May 9, 1940, the boat was sunk by an aerial bomb during an attack by the Royal Air Force off Bergen . It was lifted, repaired and put back into service. On October 1, 1940, like all boats in its class , it was given a new number and was now M 534 . From April 15 to October 31, 1941, the boat at the Mützelfeldtwerft in Cuxhaven was converted into a clearing boat support ship and then assigned to the 8th clearing boat flotilla , which was set up in January 1942, under the name Jungingen (in honor of the former Teutonic Order - Grand Master Konrad von Jungingen ) .
The End
On the morning of September 27, 1943, the Jungingen was in an attack by British motor cannon boats (MGBs) and Dutch motor torpedo boats (MTBs) on a German convoy in the English Channel near Berck at position 50 ° 28 ′ 4 ″ N , 1 ° 27 ′ 1 ″ E sunk; 23 men of the crew were killed.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/mboote/mfl39-frames.htm
- ↑ Since April 1, 1939 (and with a three-month course interruption until November 28, 1939), the later U-boat commander and Knight's Cross holder Nikolai Clausen was in command .
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-04.htm
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-05.htm
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/43-09.htm
Web links
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 4: Auxiliary Ships I: Workshop Ships, Tenders and Support Ships, Tankers and Suppliers. Bernard & Graefe, 1986, ISBN 978-3-7637-4803-7 .
- Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 2: Torpedo boats, destroyers, speedboats, minesweepers and mine clearance boats. 3. Edition. Bernard & Graefe, 1999, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 .