NRP Raúl Cascais
 The sister ships FM 27 as Polish ORP Jaskółka (front) and FM 28 as Polish ORP Mewa (rear) around 1925
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The NRP Raúl Cascais was originally a minesweeper of the Imperial Navy with the designation FM 19, which was put into service in 1918 . In 1922 Portugal received the boat, where it was first used as a ferry, from 1924 as a fisheries protection boat until it was scrapped in 1937.
Construction and technical data
The boat of the type flat Going minesweeper in 1918 for the Imperial Navy at the shipyard of Tecklenborg shipyard in Geestemünde under hull number 308 attached to Kiel . The launch took place as FM 19 on February 23, 1918, the delivery and commissioning took place on March 14, 1918. The boat was 43.00 meters long, 6.00 meters wide and had a draft of 1.68 meters. The design displacement was 170 tons, the maximum 193 tons. The drive consisted of two 3-cylinder triple expansion machines that achieved 600 hp and worked on two screws . With that she reached 14.0 knots . The range was 650 nautical miles at 14 knots. An 88 mm gun was installed as armament. The crew consisted of an officer and 60 men.
history
FM 19 in the Imperial and Provisional Reichsmarine
After the commissioning on March 14, 1918, the FM 19 was one of the few boats that was still used in the active mine detection service and was also used in the submarine school. After the end of the war, the Provisional Reichsmarine did not take over the boat: Since this type of boat could only be used to a limited extent due to its poor sea characteristics, the Reichsmarine decommissioned all boats of the type in the context of disarmament and gave preference to the minesweeper in 1916 . She had to give the boat to Portugal in 1922 as war compensation and had it converted for the handover at the Hansawerft in Tönning .
Portuguese ferry and gunboat Raúl Cascais
For Portugal, the former FM 19 was the only German ship the country received as compensation. In addition, Portugal was awarded six Austrian torpedo boats. When it arrived in Portugal, the ship was named Raúl Cascais . Lieutenant Raúl Alexandre Cascais was in command of the first ship that the Portuguese Navy lost in World War I. His auxiliary minesweeper Roberto Ivens ran south of Lisbon on a mine laid by UC 54 on July 26, 1917 , where Raúl Cascais died with 15 of the 24 crew members. The ship began service as a ferry on the Tagus on October 26, 1922 , for which further information is missing.
Two years later, the Portuguese Navy took over the ship and classified it as a gunboat . It was armed with a 47-mm gun and a machine gun. The crew now consisted of 40 officers and men. On October 13, 1924, the Navy put it into service as NRP Raúl Cascais and the identification RC and used it for fisheries protection. Little is known about this period either. On September 4, 1936, she put the boat out of service, the following year it was scrapped.
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945, Volume 2: Torpedo boats, destroyers, speed boats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1983, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 .
- José António Rodrigues Pereira: A Marinha na Grande Guerra. Teatros de Operações da Europa, Atlântico e Mediterrâneo - 1914–1919 (The Navy in World War I) , in: Revista Militar N.º Temático - May 2016, pp. 489–519 ( online version ).
Web links
- Shallow minesweepers FM 1 to FM 50 at navyworld.narod.ru (with photo, Russian), accessed on October 18, 2019
- Forum post : Portuguese warships at forumdefesa.com (Portuguese), accessed October 18, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Gröner, p. 170f.
- ↑ José António Rodrigues Pereira: The Navy in the First World War at revistamilitar.pt
- ↑ Gonçalo Pereira: A guerra à beira de Lisboa (The War on the Edge of Lisbon) , in: National Geographic April 2016, pp. 19-27 ( [1] )
- ^ Forum post : Portuguese warships at forumdefesa.com