M 82 (ship, 1919)
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M 82 was a minesweeper of the German Reichsmarine , which wasconverted intoa fleet tender in1925, went under the name Jagd from 1929 to 1940, and from 1940 with the number M 582 again served as a minesweeper in the Kriegsmarine .
Construction and technical data
The boat was on September 8, 1919 as a minesweeper M 82 in the Seebeck Shipyard in Geestemünde from the stack and was put into service on 8 November 1919th It belonged to the minesweeper type 1916 of the former Imperial Navy and was taken over by the Imperial Navy . 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 up to 30 mines . Two triple expansion steam engines with a total of 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 .
history
The boat initially belonged to the IV. Baltic Sea Minesweeping Flotilla , which was disbanded on August 4, 1920. Then it became the leader's boat of the III. Flotilla. When this was also disbanded on November 9, 1921, the boat came as a lead boat for the 5th half flotilla. It was decommissioned on August 31, 1922.
After some modifications, the boat was put back into service on April 15, 1925 as a tender for the II torpedo boat flotilla. On March 11, 1929, the name was changed to Jagd . On March 28, 1930, the boat was taken out of service again.
On July 1, 1934, the boat was put back into service and was tendered with the leader of the torpedo boats (FdT). From April 1, 1937 to July 15, 1938 it was under the command of the Führer der U-Boats (FdU), then returned to the FdT. From August 24, 1939 was in Cuxhaven on the hunting of the rod guide of minesweepers West (FdM West) set up, and when the war began, the boat the FdM West served as a guide boat. In October 1939 the boat moved to Swinoujscie , later to Aarhus , where it served the FdM Ost, Rear Admiral Hans Stohwasser , and his staff as a command boat until April 1940 . Then it came back to the FdT as a tender.
At the end of June 1940 the boat with its new designation M 582 was assigned to the 4th minesweeping flotilla. It served in the Netherlands until June 1941 , took part in the conquest of the Baltic islands of Ösel and Dagö during the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 , and then performed escort and mine detection services on the Atlantic coast and from 1942 to 1945 on the Norwegian west coast.
After the end of the war, the boat served with the German mine clearance service , in the 40th minesweeping flotilla of the 3rd mine clearance division (Copenhagen). On December 10, 1947, it was transferred to the Office of Military Government for Germany and broken up in 1954.