Paris (ship, 1922)
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The Paris was a Norwegian cargo ship that was requisitioned by the German Navy during World War II and used as a mine clearance ship.
Construction and technical data
The ship was sold in 1922 by Akers mekaniske in Oslo with hull number 401 for the shipping company Fred. Olsen (Ganger Rolf) built. At 77.9 m long, 12.1 m wide and 5.2 m draft , the ship was measured at 1753 GRT . A triple expansion steam engine from Akers Mekaniske Verksted generated 169 nominal horsepower and allowed a speed of up to 11 knots via one screw .
history
The Paris drove in the tramp shipping , mostly in the area Scandinavia - North Sea . Probably the only notable event in her career was the rescue on November 26, 1939 of the only two survivors of the five-man crew of the Belgian freighter Quenast (509 GRT), who was carrying a load of salt from Tees ( England ) to Antwerp three nautical miles north of the North obstacles lightship sank.
After the occupation of Norway by the German Wehrmacht , the ship was confiscated by the Navy and initially used as a troop transport from August 21, 1940. In the spring of 1941 it became a so-called mine clearing ship, i. H. converted to the mother ship of mine clearance launchers. Eight motor barkassen for demining were placed on the upper deck (three on the aft deck and five on the front deck) was, and the ship with a 8.8-cm-gun, three 37-mm anti-aircraft guns and twelve 20-mm anti-aircraft guns armed . On June 3, 1941, it was put into service under the designation MRS 4 - with a partly Norwegian crew. The ship was used in the Norwegian coastal waters. As the mother ship, the Paris itself did not carry out any mine clearance work, but instead deployed its barges for this purpose, for whose crews it served as a barge .
On October 18, 1944, the ship escaped a torpedo attack by the Soviet submarine V-4 "Soviet Svanetia" near the North Chin Peninsula .
On March 12, 1945, MRS 4 was sunk after all. The motor torpedo boat MTB-711 , stationed on the Shetland Islands and sailing with a Norwegian crew , hit Paris with two torpedoes northeast of the Kvaløytå lighthouse on the northern tip of the island of Kvaløy west of Haugesund . The ship sank within seconds with 86 men of its crew, including some Norwegians. 70 men could be saved.
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung and Martin Maass: The German warships 1815 - 1945; Volume 4: Auxiliary Ships I: Workshop Ships, Tenders and Support Ships, Tankers and Suppliers. Bernard and Graefe, Bonn, 1989, ISBN 5-8850-1032-3 .
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ SS Quenast, at www.wrecksite.eu
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/norwegen/mok-nw.htm
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/norwegen/ksv1-6.htm
- ↑ Ex HMS Ursula (N59) of the Royal Navy , loaned to the Soviet Union on June 26, 1944 under the framework conditions of the Loan and Lease Act .
- ↑ Kvaløytå Beacon, 59 ° 24 '11.9 "N, 5 ° 9' 27.4" E ( http://www.lighthousesrus.org/showSql.php?page=SC/NorwaySW )