Nettelbeck (ship, 1935)

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The Nettelbeck was a customs cruiser of the Reich Ministry of Finance . It was named after the Pomeranian seafarer and folk hero Joachim Nettelbeck . Under a different name, the ship was used as a submarine hunter and flak carrier by the Navy from 1939 .

Construction and technical data

The ship, the first of three ships of its class , ran on October 7, 1935 on the shipyard Nobiskrug in Rendsburg with the hull number 442 from the stack . It was 42.8 m long and 6.4 m wide and had a draft of 2.65 m . Two 10-cylinder diesel engines with a total of 3200 hp enabled a top speed of 21 knots .

history

The new customs cruiser was put into service on December 6, 1935 and operated off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea . On August 1, 1939, in the course of the German preparations for the attack on Poland , the ship was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine, whereby it was given the designation UJ 171 because it already had a ship called Nettelbeck . Armed as a submarine hunter , UJ 171 was put into service with the 17th submarine hunting flotilla formed in Kiel at the end of July . The two sister ships Freiherr vom Stein were assigned to the flotilla as UJ 172 and Yorck as UJ 174 . The flotilla provided service in the Baltic Sea including the Danish Belte and Sunde .

On June 1, 1940, the ship, together with its sister ship UJ 174 (ex Yorck ), was transferred to the 2nd Flakjägergruppe, newly formed with effect from July 1, 1940, which was to fight British aircraft in the western North Sea and to the Flakjägerflotille in November of that year expanded and renamed accordingly. After appropriate conversion (arming with a 3.7 cm twin flak and two anti-aircraft machine guns ) it was given the new designation Fl.J 26 on June 25, 1940 . The former Yorck was named Fl.J 25 . Objective of the flotilla was the Fla -protection of shipping traffic in the area Den Helder , Borkum , Emden , Wesermünde and Bremen .

After the dissolution of the flotilla on April 25, 1943, the ship was assigned to the 3rd minesweeping flotilla deployed in the Baltic Sea on May 1, 1943. There it was damaged in an air raid by Soviet planes in June 1944 , but it was repaired.

After the end of the war, the ship was awarded to the Soviet Union as spoils of war. It then served as a recovery vehicle with the designation PS-5 in the Soviet Northern Fleet from December 1945 and is said to have been scrapped in 1967.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/ujaeger/uj11-17.htm#17
  2. ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/flj.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/mboote/m1-7.htm

Web links

literature

  • Werner Fox and Carl-Ludwig Hahmann: The water customs service on the German coasts, estuaries, rivers and inland waters. 2nd edition, self-published, Hamburg, self-published, 1986.