Oldenburg (ship, 1936)
The Oldenburg ( Schiff 35 ; TSK 5 ) was a German cargo ship that was requisitioned by the Navy during World War II and used as a submarine trap . The ship was sunk on April 14, 1940 by a British submarine .
Construction and technical data
The Oldenburg ( IMO 5608367) was born on June 26, 1936 in the German shipyard in Hamburg with the hull number 178 for the Oldenburg-Portuguese Steamship Rhederei to put Kiel and ran there on 4 September 1936 by the stack . The ship was 93.88 m long and 14.00 m wide and had a draft of 5.50 m . It was measured with 2312 GRT or 1223 NRT and displaced 3233 tons . The machine system (two boilers , a triple expansion composite steam engine with turbine , a screw ) made 1600 hp and enabled a speed of 12.5 knots . The crew consisted of 23 men.
Navy
The ship was confiscated by the navy at the beginning of the war, equipped as a submarine trap ( TSK 5 ) and assigned with the designation Schiff 35 to the 6th outpost group, which provided security service in the North Sea.
On the evening of April 14, 1940 at around 9 p.m., ship 35 was attacked by the British submarine Sunfish in the Skagerrak between Skagen (Denmark) and Marstrand (Sweden) and hit by two torpedoes . The ship dropped within three minutes at 57 ° 42 ' N , 10 ° 54' O . 45 men of the 110-man crew were killed. The German submarines UJ-112 , UJ-114 , UJ-116 and UJ-176 picked up the survivors about an hour later and brought them to Frederikshavn .
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Sister ship was the Casablanca (3) , which capsized in a severe storm in the Baltic Sea on November 24, 1943 and sank because her cargo of iron ore shifted in the storm ( Oldenburg Portuguese Line ).
- ^ Outpost flotillas 1939-1945
literature
- Siegfried Breyer: Special and special ships of the Kriegsmarine. (Naval Arsenal Volume 30). Volume I, Podzun-Pallas, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1995, ISBN 3-7909-0523-2 .