Nuremberg (ship, 1936)
 The sister ship Dresden
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The Nürnberg was a combined ship of the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), which was requisitioned by the German Navy during World War II and used as a mine clearance ship. After the war it was used under a new name, first as an emigrant ship and finally in tramp shipping .
Construction and technical data
The ship was built in 1936 by Bremer Vulkan in Vegesack with the hull number built 721, was on 24 March 1936 from the stack and was put into service on 9 May 1936th She was the fourth of a total of nine ships in a series for the service to the South American Pacific coast, the "German West Coast Service" operated jointly by NDL and Hapag . At 138 m long and 17.17 m wide, the ship was measured at 5635 GRT , and the deadweight was 7510 tdw . A seven-cylinder marine diesel engine from MAN -Vulkan generated 5200 shaft horsepower and enabled a speed of up to 15 knots via one screw .
history
North German Lloyd
The Nürnberg left on May 9, 1936 on her maiden voyage to Valparaíso in Chile and then went on service from Bremen to the South American Pacific coast and back until 1939.
Navy
After the beginning of the Second World War, like her sister ship Osnabrück , she was requisitioned by the Navy, converted, equipped with 14 motorized barges for mine clearing and with several anti-aircraft cannons and on October 14, 1939 under the designation MRS 12 as a so-called mine clearance ship, i.e. H. Commissioned as the mother ship of fourteen mine clearance launchers. The ship was used in the North Sea and Danish waters, later in the western Baltic Sea , especially on the Pomeranian coast. As the mother ship, the Nürnberg did not carry out any mine clearance work itself, but instead deployed the small barges carried on deck for this purpose , for whose crews it served as a barge . In the last months of the war, the Nürnberg was also involved in the transport of wounded and refugees by the Kriegsmarine across the Baltic Sea to the west.
Emigrant ship
At the end of the war on May 8, 1945, the ship was moored in Copenhagen , where the Allies took possession of it. It then served in the German mine clearance service until 1947 . In 1947 it was awarded to Great Britain as spoils of war and, after brief use as a depot ship by the Royal Navy, was taken over by the Ministry of Transport and put up for sale. In 1948 the ship was bought by Henry P. Lenaghan & Sons Ltd. bought in Belfast , who renamed it Dundalk Bay and operated it through their Irish Bay Lines, which are active in the coastal and trampoline trade . Irish Bay Lines secured a contract with the International Refugee Organization (IRO) for the transport of displaced persons and had the ship converted in Trieste in 1948/49 into an emigrant ship with space for 1,025 people. The previous holds were converted into very spartan lounges and bedrooms for emigrants, while the deck superstructures were only slightly enlarged. The ship was now measured at 7105 GRT.
Between March 15, 1949 and October 17, 1950, Dundalk Bay made a total of eight voyages from Western Europe to Australia and New Zealand :
| departure | From | To | Arrivals | Passengers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 15, 1949 | Trieste | Sydney | April 16, 1949 | 1028 |
| ... | Trieste | Wellington | June 26, 1949 | 941 |
| August 12, 1949 | Trieste | Melbourne | September 14, 1949 | 1024 |
| October 20, 1949 | Naples | Melbourne | November 21, 1949 | 1019 |
| January 1950 | Naples | Melbourne | January 31, 1950 | 1018 |
| March 4th 1950 | Naples | Fremantle | March 29, 1950 | 1019 |
| May 1950 | Bremerhaven | Fremantle | June 18, 1950 | 1018 |
| September 1950 | Bremerhaven | Newcastle | 17th October 1950 | 1018 |
On the return trip from the seventh voyage, the Dundalk Bay took 1014 Polish DPs on board in Mombasa ( Kenya ), departed from there on August 12, 1950 and reached Kingston upon Hull on September 1, 1950 , where the DPs were disembarked the next day .
Last years
In mid-1951, the ship was converted back to a cargo ship and then used by Irish Bay Lines in the tramp shipping . In 1953 it was given to Duff, Herbert & Mitchell Ltd. from London (Manager JA Billmeir & Co., London). In 1957 it was renamed Westbay . The ship continued to operate as a tramp cargo ship. After the ship had suffered a propeller damage off Bordeaux on June 3, 1960 and severe storm damage in the autumn, it was not repaired again, but towed into the mouth of the Tyne on October 15, 1960 and laid up there . In August 1962 the Westbay was sold to the iron and metal AG for scrapping ; on September 2, 1962, she arrived at the scrapping yard in Hamburg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/mrs.htm
- ↑ 14 launches: M 3431 - M 3444, later M 3471 - M 3484 ( http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/mrs.htm ).
- ↑ http://www.fifthfleet.net/pb/wp_6a2460ca/wp_6a2460ca.html Ships of the Fifth Fleet
- ^ Peter Plowman: Australian Migrant Ships 1946 - 1977. Rosenberg Publishing, Kenthurst NSW, 2006, ISBN 1-87705-840-8 , p. 53
- ↑ From Naples on August 15, 1949
- ↑ http://immigrantships.net/v5/1900v5/dundalkbay19490914.html
- ↑ From Camp Bagnoli
- ↑ http://immigrantships.net/v3/1900v3/dundalkbay19500329_01.html
- ↑ Then on via Sydney (June 25th) to Newcastle (June 26th)
- ↑ Ships and Passenger Lists of Polish WW2 DPs arriving from Africa and Europe: Dundalk Bay , with photos
- ↑ The Ships List: JA Billmeir / Stanhope Steamship Co.
- ^ Peter Plowman: Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977 . Rosenberg Publishing, Kenthurst NSW, 2006, ISBN 1-87705-840-8 , p. 53
literature
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping, Vol. V: An era comes to an end from 1930 to 1990 . (= Writings of the German Maritime Museum. Volume 22). Ernst Kabel, Hamburg, 1986, ISBN 3-8225-0041-0
- Arnold Kludas: The ships of the North German Lloyd 1920 to 1970 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992, ISBN 3-7822-0534-0
- Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung and Martin Maass: The German warships 1815 - 1945; Volume 4: Auxiliary Ships I: Workshop Ships, Tenders and Support Ships, Tankers and Suppliers. Bernard and Graefe, Bonn, 1989, ISBN 5-8850-1032-3
- PM Heaton: Jack Billmeir: Merchant Shipowner. PM Heaton Publishing, Abergavenny, Wales, 1989, ISBN 0-9507-7149-X
- Anthony Cooke: Emigrant Ships . Carmania Press, London, 1992, ISBN 0-9518-6560-9
