M 146 (ship)
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M 146 was a warship that was built by the German Imperial Navy as a minesweeper , used by the Reichsmarine as a minesweeper and tender, and by the Kriegsmarine as a tender, minesweeper and finally as a clearing boat escort . The ship was first called M 146 , then Taku , then M 546 and finally Von der Lippe . It was on 17 June 1944 during the invasion of the Allies in Normandy by bombs northwest of Boulogne sunk.
Construction and technical data
The ship belonged to the minesweeper class of 1916 . It was laid on Kiel in 1918 at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft in Flensburg for the Imperial Navy and was given the number M 146 . The building was not finished when the war ended in November 1918, but as it was very advanced it was allowed to be completed. The launch took place on December 21, 1918 and the commissioning on August 11, 1919.
The ship was 59.60 m long and 7.30 m wide and had a draft of 2.28 m . The water displacement was 525 t ( construction displacement ) and 564 t (maximum). Two 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines with a total of 1850 hp gave the ship a speed of 16 knots over two screws . The bunker capacity of 115 t of coal allowed an action radius of 2000 nm at a cruising speed of 14 kn. The boat was initially unarmed and only equipped with demining equipment. It was not until 1940 that the ship received serious armament of a 10.5-cm gun and two 20-mm anti - aircraft machine guns . In addition, the ship could carry up to 30 mines .
career
After its commissioning, the boat first served in the 2nd minesweeping flotilla, then from October 15, 1923 to September 1933 as a tender with the 2nd torpedo boat flotilla and the 1st minesweeping flotilla. On September 29, 1933 the ship was renamed Taku and assigned to the Führer der Torpedoboote (FdT) as a tender. In 1935 the hunt , a sister ship, took over this task and the Taku , again under the original designation M 146 from October 18, 1935 , went to the 1st minesweeping flotilla as a guide boat. From October 1, 1939 to August 29, 1941, the ship was then at the Sperrschule or as a guide boat with the 6th minesweeping flotilla. In May 1940 it was renamed M 546 .
From September 1941, the Mützelfeldtwerft in Cuxhaven was rebuilt , in which the ship was lengthened and converted into a clearing boat accompanying ship. It was given the new name Von der Lippe - named after Nikolaus von der Lippe , Mayor of Stralsund , who defeated a superior Danish fleet in a naval battle near Dänholm in 1429 - and was assigned to the 10th clearing boat flotilla operating in the English Channel in 1943 after the renovation was completed .
On June 17, 1944, a few days after the start of the Allied invasion of northern France, the Von der Lippe was sunk by aerial bombs northwest of Boulogne during a British air raid.
literature
- Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 1 . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1966, p. 301-308 .
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Some sources also mention August 26, 1933.