Newhaven (ship, 1911)
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The Newhaven , named after the small port town of Newhaven in southern England, was a British passenger ferry that was used in the passenger ferry service across the English Channel on the Dieppe- Newhaven line and was captured by the German Navy during World War II and used in various functions.
history
Canal ferry
The ship ran in 1911 on the shipyard of Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée in Le Havre (France) from the stack and was designed by its owners, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company, used on the line Newhaven-Dieppe. It was 93.1 m long and 10.6 m wide and had a draft of 5.0 m . It had two chimneys and two masts and was measured at 1888 GRT . Four boilers and three steam turbines with a total of 9000 hp resulted in a speed of 22 knots .
During the First World War it was requisitioned by the Royal Navy , which first used it as a troop transport , then after appropriate conversion from May 7, 1915 to March 27, 1919 as a hospital ship .
After the end of the war, the Newhaven was returned to the LB&SC and returned to its original task. On January 1, 1923, ownership and management of the LB&SC Canal Ferries went to the Southern Railway . After modernization in the 1920s, the ship only had one funnel.
Navy
On July 26, 1940, the Newhaven fell into the hands of the German Wehrmacht troops during the occupation of Bayonne . Initially, it was planned to use the ship with the appropriate equipment and armament as a mine ship named Scorpion in the Canal, and it was put into service with the designation Schiff 52 on August 16, 1940. (Several other fallen into German hands Channel ferries were also converted to mining ships, z. B. the Alsace ex Côte d'Azur , the Lorraine , the Ostmark ex Côte d'Argent and Versailles .) For use as a mining ship, or even as an auxiliary cruiser came however, it is not clear whether it is because of structural unsuitability, lack of equipment or personnel, or other considerations. Instead, the ship in December 1940 with the designation V 1601 was the driving ship of the 16th outpost flotilla , which had been set up in September 1940 on the basis of the 16th outpost group formed in July 1940. The flotilla initially operated in the western region, then from 1941 in the Kattegatt and Skagerrak (with a base in Frederikshavn ).
In 1942 the ship with the designation DWo 67 was housed in the coastal defense flotilla West Baltic Sea. On October 1, 1943, the flotilla was renamed the 1st Security Flotilla; the former Newhaven was given the new name Vorpostensicherungsboot Vs 111 , whereby the ship probably continued to serve as a residential ship.
A conversion to a night fighter guide ship for use in the Skagerrak was considered, but was not implemented.
Whereabouts
After the end of the war, the ship served as a residential ship in Kiel until March 1946. It was scrapped in November 1948.
Web links
- http://www.navypedia.org/ships/germany/ger_conc_samc2.htm
- Side view and photo of the Newhaven / V 1601
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.navypedia.org/ships/germany/ger_conc_samc2.htm
- ^ In the war diary of the naval war command on September 8, 1940: "Auxiliary cruiser Skorpion on the Atlantic coast due to handing over personnel for the crew of the harbor protection flotilla and outpost flotilla not ready for action." On September 11, 1940, the entry appears: "Naval Commander West France reports the two auxiliary cruisers Skorpion and Natter on the Atlantic coast on September 14th ready for use. ”( War diary of the Naval War Command 1939–1945. Volume September 1940. Verlag Mittler & Sohn, Herford 1993, ISBN 3-8132-0637-8 ). Here, however, the term “auxiliary cruiser” seems to have been used quite generously and generally and should probably only refer to an armed auxiliary ship, because neither of the two ships was ever used as an auxiliary or commercial sturgeon cruiser.
- ↑ DWo = Germany, western Baltic Sea ( http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/hsfl.htm )
- ^ The Sperrkommandant Kiel (Sperrflottille) , formed in August 1939 in Kiel , became the Sperrkommandant Western Baltic Sea (Sperrflotilla) in July 1941 and the Coast Guard Flotilla Western Baltic Sea on October 1, 1942 .
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/sichverb/sifl-ost.htm