Phoenix (ship, 1932)
The Phoenix was an air traffic control ship , originally referred to as a "salvage ship", of the Air Force in World War II . After the war, she initially served as a rescue ship with the Bugsier shipping company to remove shipwrecks in German ports, and then from 1952 until it was dismantled in 1968 under the name Jason in Norwegian ownership.
Construction and technical data
The ship was built in 1932 at the shipyard of Lürssen in Vegesack as a salvage ship (BS I) for the Seeflieger of the Navy built and ran on 24 November 1932 by the stack . It was 39.24 m long and 8.00 m wide, had a maximum draft of 1.85 m and displaced 350 tons . Two six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engines from Linke-Hofmann with a total of 520 hp enabled a speed of 12 knots via two three-bladed propellers . The range was 900 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 10 knots. The ship was equipped with a gantry crane with a lifting capacity of 9 tons and was able to maintain or transport a seaplane on the quarterdeck. It was the prototype for all later air traffic control ships and recovery vehicles of the Air Force.
fate
The ship was put into service by the Reichsmarine on March 3, 1933 with the identification BS 11 , but three weeks later, on March 24, it was transferred to the Reich Association of the Aviation Industry, which under the supervision of the newly created Reich Aviation Ministry did the initially camouflaged structure the new air force operated. With the official formation of the Luftwaffe on March 1, 1935, the Phoenix , which was somewhat lengthened in 1934, became an air force ship. The ship served from 1933 to 1937 at the See Trial Center in Travemünde and then from July 1937 at the Sea Emergency District Office (SNB) Bug on Rügen , where it was temporarily stationed in Bug and temporarily in Travemünde. In February 1938 the ship moved to the SNB Holtenau in Kiel-Holtenau .
After the occupation of Denmark in April 1940, the Phoeniz was moved to SNB III and stationed in Aalborg , and in October 1940 she was equipped with an MES against sea mines . In March / April 1941 she was armed with two 2 cm flak in Kiel . From May 1941 she was subordinate to the Sea Emergency Service Leader (SNDF) Mitte, and from July 1942 she was then used at the Torpedowaffenplatz Hexengrund in the Danzig Bay .
After the end of the war, the ship was used from September 1945 by the Marine Salvage and Sea Service Command (MBSK) Kiel to remove shipwrecks, then went to the Bugsier shipping company in Hamburg with the same task. In 1952 the ship was sold to Norway , where it served under the new name Jason until 1967 , then renamed Kranfartoy 1 ( Kranschiff 1 ) and finally sold in March 1968 for demolition to the Brodrene Anda company in Stavanger .
literature
- Dieter Jung, Berndt Wenzel, Arno Abendroth: Ships and boats of the German sea pilots 1912-1976. 1st edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-469-7 .
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung and Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 - Volume 7: The ships and boats of the German sea pilots . Bernard & Graefe, Munich, 1982.
- Volkmar Kühn (di Franz Kurowski ): The sea emergency service of the German Air Force 1939–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3879435642 , ISBN 978-3879435647 .