The DF boat IV was intended for surveying and transport tasks of the Imperial Navy in the colony of German New Guinea .
history
The DF boat IV was built in 1914 at the state-owned shipyard in Tsingtau in the German colony of Kiautschou . It belonged to the Imperial Navy .
It was planned to use DF boat IV in the colony of German New Guinea when the First World War broke out in August 1914 . At that time the boat was not finished. During the siege of Qingdao by the Japanese is the Peilboot IV in Tsingtauer waters position on October 21, 1914 36 ° 3 ' N , 120 ° 15' O itself sunk.
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literature
Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815-1945 , Volume 5, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, Page 191.
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