Naiade (ship, 1936)

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The Najade was a German station wagon that was used by the Navy as a net layper during World War II and sank in the Sea of ​​Marmara after the war, again in peaceful use in 1961 .

Construction and technical data

The ship was on 11 November 1936, the hull number 463 at the Neptun shipyard of Deschimag in Rostock from the stack , was completed on March 19, 1937, was from the March 24, 1937 Steamship Company "Neptune" in Bremen put into service. It was 75.10 m long and 10.57 m wide, had 4.31 m side height and 3.93 m draft and was measured with 1246 GRT and 653 NRT . Two six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engines from MAN developed 1,100 hp and enabled a cruising speed of 12 knots with two screws . The crew consisted of 18 men, and in addition to the cargo, up to 10 passengers could be taken.

fate

The Najade used by DG Neptun in the Baltic Sea traffic was requisitioned by the Navy in April 1940 , and on May 10, 1940 in Aalborg the conversion of the ship to a netting began. On September 18, 1940, the ship was put into service as Netzleger IV Najade at Netzsperrverband I, as a replacement for the two net lighters I and II . It was armed with two 3.7 cm and nine 2 cm anti-aircraft guns . When the Netzsperrverband was reorganized, the Najade came to Netzsperrgruppe Mitte in 1941 and to Netzsperrflotille Mitte in 1942, which was responsible for blocking the network in the Baltic Sea and in the Danish access to the Baltic Sea and, during the German-Soviet War, also for sealing off the Gulf of Finland with submarines Networks were responsible. In the last months of the war, the ship was also involved in the Hannibal operation , the evacuation of German wounded and refugees from East and West Prussia .

After the end of the war, the Najade was taken over by the British Royal Navy in Flensburg on May 15, 1945 , and in June 1945 assigned to the 3rd Mine Clearance Division of the German Mine Clearance Service, which operates in Danish waters .

After the demining service was terminated at the end of December 1947, the ship was briefly used in the Royal Navy, but was then assigned to Belgium as reparation payment . It was delivered to Belgium on May 11, 1948 in Kiel and then assigned to the Société Commerciale Antoine Vloeberghs from Antwerp to operate. After being dismantled as a cargo ship, they put the ship into service on October 30, 1948 under the new name Irene-Marie and bought it in 1952.

On 21 June 1956, has now been surveyed with 1,212 GRT vessel to the sea transport GmbH (bereedert of Ernst Jacob in Flensburg) sold in July 15 Rotterdam to the new name Rimberg baptized and on 10 September 1956 Port of Hamburg as Erztransporter brought into motion. The Rimberg drove with pebbles , iron ore and coal. On September 28, 1960, the Rimberg was sold to the Cretan Shipping Co., Tsourinakis Bros., in Piraeus , Greece , for which it sailed under the name Sofia T in the Mediterranean and Black Sea as a bulk carrier . A little more than a year later, on December 19, 1961, on the voyage with a load of cement from Constanța ( Romania ) to Tripoli ( Libya ), she tore the bottom of the ship in the Sea of ​​Marmara on an underwater rock near the island of Marmara and sank shortly afterwards in position 40 ° 34 '  N , 27 ° 34'  O .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Netzsperrflotillen 1939-1945, at www.wlb-stuttgart.de
  2. ↑ The draftsman and writer Friedrich Karl Waechter , born in Gdansk in 1937, traveled with his mother, brother and sister in 15 days from January 25 to February 8, 1945 on the Netzleger IV Najade from Gdansk across the Baltic Sea to Warnemünde ( http : //www.titanic-magazin.de/heft/klassik/2005/oktober/waechter1/ )
  3. ↑ Roswita Waechter: Chain of memories childhood . Libri BoD, 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0250-3 , pp. 84, 91
  4. ↑ cf. Martin Schmidtke: Baltic Sea rescue operation 1944/1945. Summary documentation including the ships and boats involved in the merchant fleet, navy, air force and army. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-7637-6263-9 , p. 185
  5. ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/minen/mrdiv3-frames.htm
  6. ↑ MS Rimberg collects ores in Spain and Norway , in: De Suerländer , 1959, pp. 100–101 ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sauerlaender-heimatbund.de

Web links

literature

  • Erich Gröner: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 3: Submarines, auxiliary cruisers, mine ships, net layers, barrier breakers. Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz, 1985, ISBN 3-7637-4802-4
  • Peter Arndt, Peter Schenk: Deutsche Netzsperrverband , Edition Erich Gröner, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-9813904-0-7 .