Orla (ship, 1920)
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The Orla was a German cargo ship that was requisitioned by the navy during World War II and, after appropriate conversion, was used as a navigation training ship under the name Spica .
Construction and technical data
The Orla was launched on 1 October 1920 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel with the hull number 374, stack and was on January 9, 1921, the Rhederei AG from 1896 , Hamburg , delivered. She was 72.72 m long and 11.47 m wide, had a 5.18 m draft and was measured at 1289 GRT . The water displacement was 2000 tons . A triple expansion steam engine with 750 PSi , built by OEW , gave a top speed of 9 knots .
The sister ship was the Orlanda (1921) , which was delivered a month later .
The ships had two masts, a bridge structure amidships and a deckhouse and a tall funnel aft behind the second mast.
history
Merchant marine
The ship initially sailed for Rhederei AG from 1896, which merged and was dissolved in 1927 with the Hanseatische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft in Hamburg, a subsidiary of Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL). On February 1, 1933, the Orla came into the possession of the Argo Reederei in Bremen , which was rebuilt as part of the state reorganization of German shipping and the unbundling of the major shipping companies. In 1936 the Argo shipping company became the Argo shipping company Richard Adler & Co.
Navy
In October 1943, the Orla was taken over by the Kriegsmarine, converted into a navigation training ship at Usinger in Hamburg and put into service as such at the command of the small combat units on June 15, 1944 under the name Spica . There it was used for the navigation training of the pilots of micro-submarines and manned torpedoes .
At the end of the war in May 1945, the Spica was in Eckernförde .
University of Kiel
After the end of the war, the Spica / Orla - like the much larger Sofia as well as the Barbara and the Hamburg - was used as accommodation for the first students when the University of Kiel reopened in November 1945. Accommodation on the war-damaged ships was primitive and cramped. The chambers were each occupied by twelve, six or four people, and with the exception of the Orla , the rooms could hardly or not at all be heated. The ships were moored at the Seeburg on the west bank of the fjord , where the students ate lunch that was prepared in the Elac's factory kitchen .
Soviet Union
In early 1946, the ship was awarded to the Soviet Union as spoils of war and had to be evacuated as a result. It was delivered on March 18, 1946 in Kiel and then served under the name Kachovski . The ship was removed from the ship register in 1960.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kludas, pp. 74ff.
- ↑ Kiel Memorial Day: November 27, 1945: November 1945 - reopening of the university in the ELAC ( Memento of December 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )