Mangalia (ship, 1944)

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Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire Romania
IndonesiaRomania (war flag) 
Ship type Coaster
class Black Sea unit ship
home port Constanța , Romania
Shipping company Sovromtransport (1950–1954)
Navrom (1955–1969)
Nava de studii la IRCM Constanta (Marine Research Institute, from 1970)
Shipyard Korneuburg shipyard , Korneuburg / Austria
Óbuda shipyard , Budapest / Hungary
Build number 441 (Korneuburg)
Keel laying July 1, 1944
Launch 1948 (?)
Commissioning 1950
Whereabouts unknown
Ship dimensions and crew
length
57.70 m ( Lüa )
width 9.02 m
Draft Max. 3.55 m
displacement 613 dw
measurement 659 BRT
384 NRT
Machine system
machine Diesel engine
Top
speed 		9 kn (17 km / h)
propeller 1
Transport capacities
Load capacity 1,098 dw

The Mangalia was a coaster from the Black Sea unit ship class and originally developed by the Navy during World War II for use in the Black Sea . The ship was not completed until 1950 and sailed under the Romanian flag until at least the 1970s .

Construction and technical data

Keel laying in Austria

The ship was on July 1, 1944, the shipyard Korneuburg - since 1938 part of the Reich Hermann Göring in - Korneuburg near Vienna under the hull number 441 to set keel . The internal designation was the sixth ship of the series SME 6, abbreviated as SME . The ship was intended as a tender for the Navy and was to be named Brocken or Schneekoppe . The ship did not launch in Korneuburg until the end of the war.

The planned dimensions of the ship were: 59.73 meters long, 9.00 meters wide and a draft of 3.17 meters. The design displacement was according to the plans 765 tons, the maximum 1270 tons at 706 GRT . The drive should consist of a 630 hp Halberg six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine , which worked on a screw and should reach a speed of 10.3 knots .

Completion in Hungary

At the end of the war the ship was still lying on the slipway in Korneuburg and was confiscated there by the Soviets as German property after the surrender of the Wehrmacht. The shipyard in Korneuburg was managed by the USIA (Administration of Soviet Property in Austria).

The SME 5 and SME 6 were launched in Korneuburg - probably in 1948 - and, like all eight Black Sea standard ships built in Korneuburg, were transferred to Hungary. On behalf of the Soviet Union, they were completed in Budapest at the Óbuda shipyard between 1948 and 1951. Of these eight ships, the Soviet Union left two to Romania. The two units SME 5 and SME 6 were named after the Romanian cities of Constanța and Mangalia - the Mangalia was the second ship with these names.

For the two Romanian ships there are different ship dimensions for the time after completion, which have not been confirmed: their length is now given as 57.70 meters, the width as 9.02 meters and the draft as 3.55 meters. The construction displacement was now 613 tons, at 659 GRT , 384 NRT and a load capacity of 1,098 tons. The machine is said to have been a diesel engine from the USA built by Busch-Sulzer in 1944 , which brought the ship to 9 knots.

history

There are only a few certain key data about the history of the ship: In 1950 the shipyard completed the ship and handed it over to the Soviet-Romanian shipping company Sovromtransport, which was founded in 1945 . The Mangalia's home port became Constanta. The Black Sea became the shipping area for which the ship was originally planned. When the shipping company Sovromtransport was dissolved in 1954, the Romanian ships were transferred to the Romanian state shipping company Navrom , which was founded in February 1955 . The ship remained with this shipping company until 1969. The Mangalia's home port was still Constanta.

In 1970 the ship was transferred to the Romanian Marine Research Institute IRCM (nava de studii la IRCM Constanta) in Constanta. It is said to have been registered there in 1980. The whereabouts of the ship is unknown.

literature

  • Franz Dosch: Danube shipyards with history. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-886-7 .
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815–1945, Volume 7: Landing Associations II: Landing vehicles in the narrow sense (Part 2), landing ferries, landing support vehicles, transporters; Ships and boats of the army, ships and boats of the sea pilots / air force, colonial vehicles. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1990, ISBN 3-7637-4807-5 .
  • Wilhelm Donko : The Black Sea Standard Ships SME 1 – SME 12. Concept, use, whereabouts. 2nd, slightly revised edition. Verlag epubli, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8442-9919-9 .
  • Marian Mosneagu: Politica navala postbelica a Romaniei (1944-1958). Editura "Mica Valahie", 2011, ISBN 978-606-8304-14-4 .
  • Valentin Ciorbea: Flota maritima comerciala romana: Un secol de istorie moderna 1895–1995. Editura Fundației "Andrei Șaguna", Constanța 1995, ISBN 973-97270-0-X .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Donko p. 31, p. 62.
  2. ↑ Gröner, p. 141, Donko, p. 26f.
  3. ↑ Donko, pp. 79f., 86f.
  4. ↑ The shipyard, too, was initially taken over by the Soviets and only later became Hungarian property. See Dosch, p. 96.
  5. ↑ Donko, p. 87.
  6. ↑ Mosneagu, S. 265th
  7. ↑ The first Mangalia was a combined ship built in 1939 by the Serviciul Maritim Român shipping company - a sister ship of the Sulina . It was confiscated in the USA in 1941, temporarily used in the US Navy as a transporter USS Pleiades (AK-46) and scrapped in 1968, see: Neculai Păduraru, Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Die Se-Handelsschiffe Romania 1878–1944 (Part II), In : Flotsam. Materials on the history of shipping 61/2006, pp. 101–156, pp. 114f. and: Cargo Ships (AK, AKA, AKN, AKR, AKS) of the US Navy on shipbuildinghistory.com (private website)
  8. ↑ a b Romanian Military History Forum , www.worldwar2.ro
  9. ↑ a b Forum Naval Archives
  10. ↑ Donko, p. 90.
  11. ↑ romaniaforum.info