DF boat III

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DF boat III p1
Ship data
flag German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Shipyard Government shipyard , Tsingtau
Launch 1913
Whereabouts unknown
Ship dimensions and crew
length
23.30 m ( Lüa )
width 5.50 m
Draft Max. 1.90 m
displacement 90  t
 
crew 15th
Machine system
machine Steam engine
Machine
performance 		135 PS (99 kW)
Top
speed 		8 kn (15 km / h)
propeller 1

The DF boat III was used for surveying and transport tasks of the Imperial Navy in the colony of German New Guinea .

history

The DF boat III was built in 1913 at the state-owned shipyard in Tsingtau in the German colony of Kiautschou . It belonged to the Imperial Navy and was assigned to the "Austral Station" by the Navy on April 13, 1914. The austral station covered the vast sea area of ​​the colony of German New Guinea and the continent of Australia.

At the end of May 1914 the DF boat III went into service in Jap in the Karolinen .

From June 15 to August 9, 1914, Otto Hormel was in command of the sounding boat.

The boat was scheduled to pick up from Tsingtau in August 1914 , when the First World War broke out, at Rabaul , the capital of German New Guinea . At the end of August, the unarmed ship sank in front of approaching Japanese warships in the Truk Atoll in the Carolines at 7 ° 32 '  N , 151 ° 51'  E. The Japanese lifted the ship. Nothing is known about his further fate.

literature

  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815-1945 , Volume 5, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, Page 191.