Neisse (ship, 1926)
 Claus Horn
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
.svg){kind=small}
.svg){kind=small}
.svg){kind=small}
The Neisse was in World War II by the German Navy for submarine tender converted former combi freighter .
Construction and technical data
The ship was launched on May 28, 1925 in Reiherstieg Shipyard and Machine Works in Hamburg with the hull number 577 for the Flensburger Reederei H. C. Horn as Minna Horn from the stack and was delivered on 14 January 1926 for the service of the shipping company to Central America. The Minna Horn was 94.81 m long and 14.11 m wide, had a draft of 6.95 m and a mast with loading gear in the fore and aft . It was measured at 3,179 GRT or 1,890 NRT. A four-stroke marine diesel engine from Großmotoren-Werke Hamburg-Mannheim GmbH gave a top speed of 11.0 kn . The ship was able to carry up to 32 first class passengers in the two-deck central nave structure . There was still space for 18 passengers III in the aft ship. Class. She was the shipping company's first combined ship . In April 1926 a sister ship from the Reiherstieg shipyard followed with the Waldtraut Horn under hull number 578.
In June 1930 a conversion took place in Hamburg in which the ship received a two-stroke HDoEP engine from MAN . The number of passengers decreased to 30 with the omission of the III. Class in the rear body. The new measurement was 3,177 GRT and 1,842 NRT. During the renovation, the ship was renamed Claus Horn on June 4, 1930 . The passenger facilities now corresponded to the four combination ships delivered by Schichau in 1928/29 (see Mimi Horn ). The sister ship Waldtraut Horn was later converted and renamed accordingly and was called Henry Horn from the end of 1936 .
history
The ship operated between the Caribbean and Germany. A few days before the start of the Second World War, it returned to Germany on August 23, 1939. On September 11, 1939, the Westindische Schiffahrtkontor GmbH , founded in 1934 by Heinz Horn and Erich Müller-Stinnes , took over the ship and renamed it Claus .
The Navy took over the ship on October 10, 1939 and then used it as a ship for the 2nd submarine training flotilla , where new boat crews were trained in torpedo shooting with their own boats . After a conversion started in October 1940, the ship was renamed the Neisse and from February 6, 1941 it was returned to service as a submarine escort and guide ship for the 25th U-Flotilla in the Baltic Sea .
In January 1945 from Gdynia to Travemunde laid, which was Neisse on 3 May 1945, the journey from Neustadt in Holstein to Kiel near the lightship Kiel British in an air raid Hawker Typhoon - fighter-bomber of the RAF Second Tactical Air Force damaged by a rocket hit , but was able to enter Kiel on its own.
It was there at the end of the war. Already in June 1945 she was assigned to the German Mine Clearance Service, but from November 21, 1946 onwards she served for some time as a barge for the University of Kiel in the port of Kiel .
On March 24, 1947, the ship was delivered to Yugoslavia in Kiel as a reparation payment . Unyter the new name Topusko then drove it for the state shipping company Jugoslavenska Linijska Plovidba ( Jugolinija ) from Rijeka . On October 31, 1961, the Topusko was transferred to Split and then broken up in the Brodosplit shipyard in November .
literature
- Horn Line 100 Years of the Horn Line 1882–1982 . Anniversary publication, Hamburg 1982.
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Friedrich-Wilhelm Kunze: Horn Line - The chronicle of a traditional shipping company . DF-Verlag Bad Segeberg, 1990.
- Arnold Kludas : The History of German Passenger Shipping 1850 to 1990 . Ernst Kabel Verlag, 1986.
- Reinhardt Schmelzkopf: German merchant shipping 1919–1939. Volume 1: Chronicle and evaluation of the events in shipping and shipbuilding. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1847-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ She was the sixth ship of the shipping company with this name.
- ↑ HDoEP = high pressure motor without an injection pump
- ↑ In 1933 Erich Müller-Stinnes acquired shares in the Horn-Linie, which was in financial difficulties, and thus helped it out of the crisis. In 1934 he and Heinz Horn, the son of the company founder, founded Westindische Schiffahrtkontor GmbH, which became shareholders in all the ships in the Horn line.
- ↑ The 2nd submarine training flotilla was renamed the 25th submarine flotilla in July 1940.
- ↑ A number of the Typhoons were armed with unguided rockets of the type RP-3 (Rocket Projectile 3- inch ) for low-flying attacks .