Moltke (ship, 1914)

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Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Ship type Fish steamer
Owner North Sea shipping company
Shipyard Shipbuilding company Unterweser
Build number 99
Launch 1914
Whereabouts Stranded off Spiekeroog in 1916
Ship dimensions and crew
length
approx. 37.5 m ( Lüa )
width approx. 6.85 m
measurement approx. 211 GRT
 
crew 12
Machine system
Machine
performance 		350 hp (257 kW)

The Moltke was a fish steamer that was used by the Imperial Navy as an outpost boat during the First World War .

The Moltke was built as a fishing steamer by the shipbuilding company Unterweser AG Schichau for the shipping company Nordsee and was number 99. It was launched on May 23, 1914. The ship was delivered on June 8, 1914.

After the outbreak of World War I, the ship was requisitioned by the Imperial Navy and used as an outpost boat off the North Sea coast from September 21, 1914 . On January 2, 1916, it ran aground off Spiekeroog during a winter storm . At low tide and easterly winds, the remains of the wreck can still be seen on the beach of Spiekeroog near the Wolfgang house in 2020.

  • Approximate location of the wreck

  • The wreck in 1925

  • Rest of the wreck in 2006

Coordinates: 53 ° 46 ′ 59 ″  N , 7 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  E

Web links

Commons : Wreck of the Graf Moltke (Spiekeroog)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The name is sometimes also given with Count Moltke . It is not clear whether the addition Graf was an additional name that was given to the ship during the war, or whether it was just a seal.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Walter: German fish steamers. Technology, development, use, ship register. Die Hanse, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-551-88517-6 , p. 185.
  3. ↑ Information about the stranding on the website of a marine forum ( Memento from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Information about stranding on the Spiekeroog website ( Memento from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.4 MB)
  5. ↑ Patrick Kösters: Spiekeroog Island - The "Secret" of Wreck Moltke ". In: Youtube. March 25, 2020, accessed on April 1, 2020 .