Sofia (ship, 1939)
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The Sofia was a German cargo motor vessel , which in the Second World War by the Navy and then of the University of Kiel as a barge was used. In 1946 it became Soviet spoils of war and then went under the name Nadir (Надир).
Construction and technical data
The ship was built in 1939 at the Deutsche Werft , Reiherstieg plant , in Hamburg for the German Levante Line . It was 129.3 m long and 16.9 m wide, had a draft of 7.0 m and was measured at 4446 GRT . The water displacement was 7100 tons when fully loaded. The drive consisted of two two-stroke six-cylinder diesel engines from MAN with a total of 3860 hp , which enabled the ship to reach a top speed of 14.3 knots over two propellers .
Sister ships were the Athen (1936), the Belgrade (1937) and the Bucharest (1939).
history
Navy
The Sofia was requisitioned by the navy at the beginning of the Second World War before it was completed. The machinery was removed and on the new fleet Tender Hela installed as the procurement of the Hela originally planned four MAN 10,000-horsepower 9-cylinder four-stroke diesel W 9 Vu 40/46 with the type Buchi - charging considerable difficulties and long Had led to construction delays. The Sofia then served as a barge in Swinoujscie until the end of the war . On March 7, 1945, she received a hit from the bottom of the mine off Swinoujscie, but was subsequently recovered and transferred to Kiel .
University of Kiel
After the end of the war, the Sofia - like the smaller barges Barbara , Orla / Spica and Hamburg - was used as accommodation for the first students when the University of Kiel reopened in November 1945. Accommodation on the war-damaged ships was primitive and cramped. The chambers were each occupied by twelve, six or four people, and with the exception of the Orla , the rooms could hardly or not at all be heated. Since the Sofia had one larger and three small rooms below deck, lectures and seminars were held there. The office of the student union was also on the Sofia . The ships were moored at the Seeburg on the west bank of the fjord , where everyone ate lunch that was prepared in the Elac's factory kitchen .
Soviet Union
At the beginning of 1946, the Sofia was awarded to the Soviet Union as spoils of war and had to be evacuated as a result. The Soviet Navy renamed the ship Nadir (Надир) and then used it as a floating base PB 3 in the Baltic Fleet . On December 27, 1956, it was redrawn again, this time as the PKZ 110 residential ship . Finally, on April 20, 1960 , the former Sofia was struck off the list of warships. The whereabouts are unknown.
Individual evidence
- ^ WH Mitchell & LA Sawyer: The Empire Ships. Lloyd's of London Press, London / New York / Hamburg / Hong Kong, 1995, ISBN 1-85044-275-4
- ↑ http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/Soviet_Merchant_Marine._German_Ships_in_Soviet_Merchant_Navy_after_WWII
- ↑ Kiel Memorial Day: November 27, 1945: November 1945 - reopening of the university in the ELAC ( Memento of December 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Kiel Memorial Day: November 27, 1945: November 1945 - reopening of the university in the ELAC ( Memento of December 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Soviet Merchant Marine: German Ships in Soviet Merchant Navy after WWII
- The German Levante line on The Ships List (English)
- Roger W. Jordan: The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939: The Particulars And Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships . Naval Inst Press, 2006, ISBN 1-59114-959-2 , pp. 55 (English, 624 pp., Limited preview in Google Book Search).