Max Stinsky (ship)

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The Max Stinsky was an air traffic control ship of the German Air Force in World War II , the second of four class K V ships. It was named after the naval aviator and chief of Torpedo Squadron I in Zeebrugge , Lieutenant Max Stinsky (1895-1918), who died in Flanders in 1918 ). Her sister ships were the Karl Meyer , the Immelmann and the Boelcke . The ships were very similar to the Hans Rolshoven and the previous Krischan class. After the Second World War , the ship served in the French Navy from 1948 to 1968 .

Construction and technical data

The Max Stinsky in 1939 when Norderwerft Köser & Meyer in Hamburg with the hull number 732 on Kiel down and ran there on 12 October 1940 by the stack . It was put into service on August 7, 1941 with the registration number K 52.

The ship was 78 m long and 10.8 m wide. It had a draft of 3.7 m and displaced 1157 t (standard) and 1351 t (maximum). The propulsion system consisted of four 12-cylinder 4-stroke MAN - diesel engines with a total of 8800 PSI and two screws ; the maximum speed was 21.5 knots (empty) and 18.5 knots (fully loaded). The ship could be up to 120 tons of diesel oil bunkers and thus had a radius of 3350 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 18 knots. The ship was unarmored and armed with three 3.7 cm and two 2 cm anti- aircraft guns. The armament was changed in 1943/44 by replacing the 3.7 cm gun on the forecastle with a 10.5 cm gun. The vessel was equipped with a 18-t-MAN-portal and rotary crane of 18 m in length and equipped aft adjustment and a working deck and has up to three water aircraft types He 60 , Do 18 , He 114 or Ar 196 to record. The crew consisted of 66 men.

fate

Second World War

The Max Stinsky served in Norway , where she u. A. in February 1942 distance measurement Exercises with the Tirpitz in Trondheim Fjord carried out and on March 16, 1942 three Tirpitz - board aircraft recorded that in Fættenfjord were ditched in Trondheim.

The ship later moved to the French Atlantic coast, escaped to Spain after the occupation of western France by the Allies and was interned there .

France

French warships near Nha Trang during Operation "Meknes and Atlas", 15-19. April 1953. On the right the aircraft carrier La Fayette , on the left the two aircraft tenders Paul Goffeny and Commander Robert Giraud (the former German air traffic control vessels Max Stinsky and Immelmann ). The ship in the middle is probably the colonial aviso Savorgnan-de-Brazza .

After the end of the war, the ship was initially delivered to Great Britain in December 1945 and finally awarded to France in August 1946 as part of the reparations agreements. The ship came to its new home port Cherbourg in February 1948 and was taken over into the French Navy under the name OE Paul Goffeny (F754) . The name and ID were soon changed to Paul Goffeny (A754). The vessel was now, in addition to the 10.5-cm-gun, with two 40-mm anti-aircraft guns on the main deck on both sides of the bridge , four 20-mm anti-aircraft guns in two twin guns aft and a 79 mm mortar arms . The crew consisted of 78 men.

The ship was put into service as a landing and commando force transporter in November 1948 and sent to Saigon to support the fighting in the Mekong Delta and the Annamese coast in the French Indochina War . The Paul Goffeny stayed there until August 1955, with two interruptions to overhaul the shipyard (1951 in Nantes and 1954 in Japan). Their main task was the transport of amphibious combat groups and their boats and a seaplane ( Supermarine Sea Otter or Grumman G-21 Goose ). The ship and crew received high military awards twice, in August 1949 and May 1950. On December 21, 1952, the riot ammunition exploded in the 10.5 cm gun turret , killing the entire crew; It is not clear whether it was an accident or sabotage by Vietnamese workers.

The ship left Indochina in August 1955 and moved to Dakar ( Senegal ) in what was then French West Africa , where it arrived on November 3, 1955. From this new home port it provided patrol and sea ​​rescue services in the South Atlantic and off West Africa as well as general representation of France's interests in these waters until 1964 . In the last week of September, 1958 (25th to 28th September.), As in Guinea of the referendum on the immediate independence of France was imminent, was the Paul Goffeny to Conakry ordered to there the CFA franc banknotes to the Central Bank by French paratroopers to confiscate and to withdraw its means of payment from the young state. In 1959 the ship was given a general overhaul in Cherbourg. The return trip from Brest to Dakar in September was delayed by the fact that the ship first had to rescue a few recreational sailors from distress at Brest. In October the Paul Goffeny was back in Dakar, from where it then carried out a long patrol trip along the West African coast to South Africa . In June 1960 she recovered the bodies of passengers from an Air France plane that crashed at Dakar . Soon after, she was temporarily stationed in Pointe-Noire in what was then the French Congo in order to be able to intervene to protect French citizens and interests during the civil war that broke out after the independence of the former Belgian colony of Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo . In 1962 a general overhaul took place in Diégo Suarez ( Madagascar ), and in March 1963 the ship was off the Brazilian coast to protect French fishermen in the Brazilian-French "lobster war".

In 1964 the Paul Goffeny went to Cherbourg and was converted into a surveying and research vessel for the Mission Oceanographique de l'Atlantique Nord (MOAN). In this role she served in the Azores and the North Atlantic until 1968.

In November 1968 the Paul Goffeny was decommissioned and on December 30, 1968 transferred to the "Sonderreserve B". The ship was abandoned in Cherbourg in March / April 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johan Ryheul: "German Naval Air Service at the Western Front 1914-1918"
  2. ^ Paul Goffeny (1907–1945) was a highly decorated French pilot who lost his life on January 1, 1945 in the fighting for Royan .

literature

  • Volkmar Kühn (di Franz Kurowski ): The sea emergency service of the German Air Force 1939-1945 , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3879435642 , ISBN 978-3879435647
  • Dieter Jung, Berndt Wenzel, Arno Abendroth: Ships and boats of the German sea pilots 1912-1976 , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition, 1977
  • Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung and Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 - Volume 7: The ships and boats of the German sea pilots . Bernard & Graefe, Munich, 1982

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