North Sea (ship, 1914)
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The North Sea was planned and built in 1914 as a traffic steamer for island service to Helgoland , but was taken over by the Imperial Navy and used as a tender during World War I and used by the Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine as an escort ship for speedboats and clearing boats from 1921 to 1945 .
Imperial Navy
The 56.6 meter long, with 859 BRT presumptuous and 12 knots fast ship arrived on July 4, 1914. the Atlas plants in Bremen from the stack . At the beginning of the war, just a few weeks later, it was taken over by the Imperial Navy and put into service on October 5, 1914 as a tender for the outpost boats in the North Sea. The main task was to supply the outpost boats off the coast with basic needs, mail and replacement crews. At the end of the war, the North Sea was first transferred to the tender half-flotilla of the Commander of the North Sea Naval Forces and then decommissioned on June 30, 1919.
Reich and Kriegsmarine
The ship was reactivated on February 16, 1921 by the Reichsmarine and used as a station tender for the naval station of the Baltic Sea . After the Reichsmarine, which was planning a new Schnellbootwaffe, started exercises with hidden fast motorboats in August 1925 and equipped the existing old boats with new engines in 1926, it was decided in spring 1927 to station these boats in Kiel and to use them in the same year to put into service as a semi-flotilla with the old North Sea as a tender. Until the new Schnellbootleitschiff Tsingtau was put into service in September 1934, the North Sea served as the escort of the 1st Schnellbootflotille, which initially consisted of seven remaining boats from the First World War and from 1932 the first four newbuildings ( S 1 to S 4 ) of the Reichsmarine.
On October 1, 1934, the North Sea came to the Mürwik Naval School . On February 13, 1939, she was officially classified as a school boat. During the Second World War , the North Sea was converted into a clearing boat escort ship in 1942/43 and assigned to the 13th R-Flotilla as a tender on November 15, 1943, which was deployed in the German Bight .
Post war service and end
After the end of the war, the ship with the 13th clearing flotilla in Cuxhaven was assigned to the German mine clearing service as part of the 2nd mine clearing division; the flotilla cleared mines in the German Bight and along the North Sea coast by December 1947 . The ship was handed over to the USA on December 13, 1947 and broken up in Belgium in 1949.
literature
- Erich Gröner: The ships of the German navy and their whereabouts 1939-1945. JFLehmanns, Munich 1976.
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. A mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present day. Biographies, Volume 9. Mundus Verlag o.J.
- Volkmar Kühn: Speedboats in use 1939-45. 3. Edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 3879434506
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 13th clearing flotilla consisted of the following boats: the Tender Nordsee , the mine clearing boats R 22 , R 55 , R 71 , R 91 , R 102 , R 132 , R 133 , R 134 , R 135 , R 136 , R 137 , R 138 , R 140 , R 142 , R 144 , and the former air traffic control boats of the Air Force FLB 1114 and FLB 5004 ( http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/minen/mrdiv2-frames.htm ).