Or (ship, 1927)

Or

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type Cargo ship Callsign DOCN home port Bremen Owner North German Lloyd Shipyard Vulkanwerft (Hamburg) Build number 210 Launch October 25, 1927 Whereabouts Self- sunk in Bab al-Mandab on March 24, 1941

Ship dimensions and crew length 162.96 m ( Lüa ) width 19.39 m Draft Max. 9.39 m measurement 8,516 GRT , 5,329 NRT   crew 72

Machine system machine Triple expansion machine with exhaust steam turbine indicated performance 6,500 hp (4,781 kW) Top speed 14 kn (26 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Load capacity 12,575 dwt Permitted number of passengers 14th

Others Classifications Lloyd's Register

The Oder was a cargo ship for the East Asia and Australia service of North German Lloyd (NDL). It was one of a series of 17 NDL fast freighters that differed only slightly.

history

The ship was as hull number 210 on the Hamburg Vulkan Werft built, ran there on 25 October 1927 from the pile and could be made on 20 December 1927 by the North German Lloyd in service.

HMS Shoreham

At the beginning of World War II , the Oder was launched in September 1939 in Massaua , Italy, in East Africa . In the spring of 1941 the ship was supposed to break through to France , but was placed in the Bab al-Mandab strait on March 24, 1941 by the British sloop HMS Shoreham . Thus the Or not from the Royal Navy could be seized, it was about five nautical miles southwest of Perim scuttled .

See also

• List of significant ship sinkings

Web links

Commons : Or  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arnold Kludas : The ships of the North German Lloyd. 1857 to 1970 . Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1988, p. 62 .
2. ^ SS Or (II) (+1941). Wrecksite, accessed February 21, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 12 ° 35 ′ 32 ″  N , 43 ° 20 ′ 6 ″  E