Storm (ship, 1898)
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 The fire (left) and three sister boats in Kiel , 1900 |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Torpedo boat |
| Shipyard | |
| Launch | June 1, 1898 |
| delivery | 1898 |
| Whereabouts | Accumulated and sunk on April 13, 1940 near Bergen |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
83 t, maximum 107 t |
| length |
39.9 m over everything |
| width |
4.8 m |
| Draft |
2.15 m |
| crew |
23 men |
| drive |
2 steam boilers , |
| speed |
17.5 kn |
| Armament |
2 × 37 mm Hotchkiss cannons , |
| Coal supply |
17 t |
The Storm was a 1st class torpedo boat (Norwegian: Torpedobåt Kl. I ) of the Norwegian Navy , which served in the Norwegian Navy from 1900 to 1940, was captured by the German Navy in April 1940 , but after a few days it was captured Underwater rocks ran and sank.
Construction and technical data
The Storm was the type ship of her class, to which the Brand and the Trods belonged. The three boats were largely identical to the three Hval boats built in 1896 near Schichau in Elbing for the Norwegian Navy and the four Laks boats built in 1900 and 1901 in Norway .
The Storm was launched on June 1, 1898 in Carljohansværn Værft , the "Marinens Hovedverft" in Horten from the stack provided and was founded in 1900 in service. The boat was 40.0 m long and 4.90 m wide. It had a draft of 1.10 m in front and 2.10 m in the aft and displaced 80 tons (standard) and 107 tons (maximum). The machine system consisted of two water-tube boilers and a triple expansion steam engine , whose 650 HP enabled a top speed of 17.5 knots via one screw . Up to 17 tons of coal could be bunkered . The armament consisted of two 3.7-cm 5-tube Hotchkiss revolver cannons and two 45-cm torpedo tubes , one between the two funnels, one on the stern. The crew numbered 23 men.
fate
1900-1939
During the political tensions with Sweden in the course of the Norwegian resolution process from the previous personal union with Sweden after the referendum of August 13, 1905, Norway, like Sweden, mobilized its armed forces on September 13. When war threatened in autumn, the Storm and the other new torpedo boats took part in extensive naval maneuvers. Six of them were then stationed in the Oslofjord under the command of the destroyer Valkyrjen in order to fend off a feared Swedish attack from the sea on Oslo and the military and industrial installations in eastern Norway in cooperation with the four coastal armored ships ; the other four torpedo boats, 1st class, remained in front of Bergen .
During the First World War , the Storm , like the other ships of the Norwegian Navy, served to ensure Norwegian neutrality and in the escort service for merchant ships in Norwegian coastal waters. After the end of the war, until 1927, the boat was mainly used to pester smugglers who brought alcohol into the country during the Norwegian prohibition .
1940
The Storm was one at the start of World War II with her sister ships fire and AEL for in Bergen -based and associated with the second Seeverteidigungsabschnitt 4th Torpedo Boat Division. However, this assignment was purely administrative, and each boat operated relatively independently in the stretch of coast assigned to it. The Storm was stationed in the Krossfjord (south of Bergen and the island of Sotra ) near Hummelsund ( Øygarden municipality ), the Sæl further south in Brandasund on Selbjørnsfjord , and the Brand in Fedje on the island of the same name north of Bergen.
In the first weeks of the war, the Storm twice rescued the crews of merchant ships that were near the island of Store Marstein before entering the Krossfjord and thus to Bergen from the German submarine U 7 under Oberleutnant zur See Werner Heidel after the men in the boats had gone, had been torpedoed . On September 22, 1939, the Storm and the pilot boat from Marstein picked up the 26 men of the British freighter Akenside (2,694 GRT), who had been traveling to Bergen with a cargo of coal. On September 29, the Storm towed the two lifeboats of the Norwegian cargo steamer Takstaas (1,830 GRT) to Sund in the Krossfjord after their ship, which was traveling to England with a cargo of wood, had also been torpedoed by U-7 .
When the German invasion of Norway began on April 9, 1940, when Warship Group 3 arrived in front of Bergen and entered the fjord, the Storm hit a torpedo hit on the speedboat companion Carl Peters , but the torpedo did not explode and caused little damage. After that, the Storm initially managed to escape into the Hardangerfjord , where it was captured by the Navy . Before the boat could be officially put into service by the Navy as planned, it ran onto an underwater rock on April 13, 1940 near Bremnes at the western end of the island of Bømlo , about 25 nautical miles north of Haugesund , and sank.
Web links
- http://www.navypedia.org/ships/norway/no_dd_storm.htm
- Ships of the Norwegian Navy in April 1940 (private website)
literature
- Jon Rustung Hegland & Johan Henrik Lilleheim: Norske torpedobåter gjennom 125 år. Sjømilitære Samfund ved Norsk Tidsskrift for Sjøvesen, Hundvåg, 1998, ISBN 82-994738-1-0 (norw.)
Footnotes
- ↑ The Trods was taken out of service in 1931 and then scrapped.
- ↑ The three boats built at Schichau, the Hval , Delfin and Hai , had, however, a considerably more powerful machine system that made 1100 hp and 21 knots.
- ^ Jacob Børresen: Sjømilitære krigsforberedelser i ytre Oslofjord summer 1905. Vestfold University College and Borre Historical Society. Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (norw.) (accessed February 25, 2012)
- ^ Organization of Norwegian Marine Forces ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://worldatwartimeline.com/battleattlantic/ba1939/ba091939.htm
- ↑ http://worldatwartimeline.com/battleattlantic/ba1939/ba091939.htm ; http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/50.html
- ↑ a b c http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-04.htm
- ↑ http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4004-13APR02.htm
