Otto Wishes (ship, 1940)
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The Otto Wünsche was a submarine support ship of the German Navy during World War II . After the end of the war she served in the Soviet Navy until the 1970s .
She was the third of a total of eight planned ships of the Wilhelm Bauer class, of which only four were stacked and only three were completed, next to the type ship Wilhelm Bauer only the Waldemar Kophamel and the somewhat larger Otto Wünsche . The three ships were the largest fleet tenders in the Navy. It was named after the submarine commander Otto Wünsche (1884–1919) from the First World War .
Construction and technical data
The ship was at the 1938 Howaldtswerken in Kiel placed on the stack, was there on 23 May 1940 by stack and was put into service on 6 November 1943rd It was slightly larger than its two sister ships. It was 139.4 m long (132.2 m in the waterline ) and 16 m wide, had a draft of 5.10 m and displaced a maximum of 5900 t . The armament consisted of four (from 1944 only two) 10.5 cm L / 45 flak , from 1944 one 4 cm flak Bofors , two 3.7 cm flak and four (from 1944 twelve) 2 -cm-Flak. The crew numbered 289 men and the ship accommodated up to 423 submarine crews. Two propellers and four MAN - diesel engines with a total of 13,800 horsepower gave the ship a top speed of 21.5 knots . The range of action was 9,000 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 15 knots.
fate
The ship was assigned to the 27th U-Flotilla as an escort ship from November 6, 1943, but joined the 26th U-Flotilla shortly before the end of the war in April 1945. In February 1945 it moved from Pillau to Warnemünde .
A few weeks after the end of the war, on the morning of June 14, 1945, the ship was damaged in the great ammunition explosion in Flensburg - Kielseng , and the crew suffered deaths and injuries. However, it was later towed away and anchored in the fjord.
After the necessary repairs, the Otto Wünsche initially served as a residential ship for the German mine clearance service , but was then declared to be Soviet spoils of war. At the beginning of January 1946, the ship accompanied six ships to be delivered to the Soviet Navy to Libau and brought their remaining German crews back to Germany; it was the light cruiser Nürnberg , the target ship Hessen with its remote control boat Blitz , the destroyer Z 15 Erich Steinbrinck and the torpedo boat T 33 and the old torpedo boat and current torpedo catcher T 107 . The ship had the same task in the first week of February when it accompanied the two destroyers Z 20 Karl Galster and Z 14 Friedrich Ihn to their delivery to Libau and brought their remaining crews back to Germany on February 9.
In March 1946, Otto Wünsche was also handed over to the Soviet Navy, which put the ship into service on March 6, under the new name of Pechora (Russian: Печора ). From July 20, 1946 to September 17, 1973 it served in the Northern Fleet , then until April 13, 1977 as a residential ship with the designation PKZ-14 . Then it was removed from the list of ships and soon after it was scrapped.
Footnotes
- ↑ The ammunition accident on June 14, 1945 in Flensburg-Kielseng ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945, Volume 4: Auxiliary ships I: workshop ships, tenders and escort ships, tankers and suppliers. Bernard & Graefe, 1986, ISBN 978-3-7637-4803-7 .
- Siegfried Breyer: Special and special ships of the Kriegsmarine (I). Marine-Arsenal, Volume 30, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Eggolsheim-Bammersdorf, 1995, ISBN 3-7909-0523-2 .