Rhine (ship, 1934)
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The Rhein was a mine transporter put into service in 1934 for the German Reich and Kriegsmarine . After the end of the Second World War , she was used as a cargo ship under different names until 1964 .
Construction and technical data
The ship was built in 1934 with hull number 777 by the Stettiner Oderwerke in Stettin , as was its sister ship Lauting . With a length of 53.3 m in the waterline or 56.7 m over all, a width of 10.4 m and a draft of 4.41 m , it displaced 1,252 tons when fully equipped . It was of a four-cylinder diesel engine of Sulzer with 450 PS is driven to start a speed of 9.5 knots enabled. The bunker supply of 35.2 tons of diesel oil resulted in a maximum range of 3000 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 9 knots. The armament consisted only of four 2 cm Flak C / 30 . The crew numbered 40–43 men. The ship could carry 300-370 mines in two holds in front of and behind the mast located amidships with its four cargo booms . The mines were transported in an unusable state. At first it did not have a mine throwing device; it was not until August 1943 that the ship was converted to mine.
history
Navy
The Rhine was, like the Lauting , assumed after its entry into the lock Zeugamt Wilhelmshaven. Their task was to transport the mines filled and stored in the Wilhelmshaven mine depot, from 1938 onwards in the Druhwald Marine Blocking Equipment Office near Wilhelmshaven, to the required ports and ships. Details of their use in World War II are not yet known.
post war period
After the end of the war, the Rhine was awarded to the USA as spoils of war. She then served in the German mine clearance service until December 1947 . On May 23, 1949, the administration of the American occupation zone of Germany ( OMGUS ) sold the ship to the Hamburg shipping company Leonhardt & Blumberg , which had it converted into a cargo ship with 889 GRT , 1350 tons of loading capacity and a crew of 15 and renamed it Klaus Leonhardt . On February 21, 1950, she sold the ship to the Hamburg shipping company Johannes Ick, which renamed it Uhlenhorst on September 20, 1950 .
On August 31, 1964, the ship was sold to the scrap and ship scrapping company Walter Ritscher in Hamburg and subsequently demolished.
Web links
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 3: Submarines, auxiliary cruisers, mine ships, net layers and barrier breakers . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1985, ISBN 3-7637-4802-4 .
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Volume 9: Historical Overview . Collective chapter landing craft, mine ships, minesweepers, speedboats, training ships, special ships, tenders and escort ships, torpedo boats, supply ships. Mundus Verlag, 1999, OCLC 247353137 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Grube: Marine-Sperrzeugamt Druhwald
- ↑ The shipping company's first ship of this name.