Misdroy (ship, 1900)

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The Misdroy was a passenger ship built in the Netherlands , which sailed in the Stettiner Haff and on the Dievenow from 1901 until the Second World War and was used by the German Air Force as an auxiliary ship during the war .

The ship

The ship was launched in 1900 at the J. Kieviets & van Reede shipyard in Papendrecht in the province of South Holland under the name Eugenie . It was 35.75 m long and 6.01 m wide and had a draft of 2.70 m . It was measured at 147 GRT and displaced 350 tons .

career

As early as 1901, the Eugenie was sold to the Stettin-Wollin-Cammin-Dievenower Dampfschiffsgesellschaft (SWCD-DSG) in Cammin ( Pomerania ) and renamed Cammin . It was then used for passenger traffic on Seegatt Dievenow , the eastern estuary of the Oder , connecting the Stettiner Haff with the Baltic Sea , between Wollin , Cammin and Dievenow .

In 1931 the ship was renamed Miedzyzdroje . In 1938 the old steam engine was replaced by a 6-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine with 200 PSe from MWM .

During the Second World War the Misdroy from the Wehrmacht requisitioned and of the air force as an operating vehicle for their Versuchsstelle Karl Hagen in Peenemunde-West and the airbase at Garz used for the transportation of personnel and material.

After the war, the ship, now renamed Vineta , continued to sail in the Stettin area for several years until it was canceled in 1951.

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