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The Strahl was a communications test ship used by the Navy from 1936. It was created through the conversion of the Soneck cargo ship, which was completed in 1902 for the European lines of the DDG "Hansa" .
Towed to be demolished in Great Britain, the ship sank in the North Sea on February 2, 1949.
Construction and technical data
The ship was on 27 February 1902, the hull number 388 at the shipyard Wigham Richardson in Newcastle upon Tyne from the stack , was on April 15, 1902, the name Soneck by the shipping company German Steamship Company "Hansa" , Bremen , put into service and transferred to Hamburg on April 18. The ship was 74.67 m long (L.ü.a.) and 10.25 m wide and had a draft of 6.39 m . It was measured with 1121 GRT and 595 NRT and had a load capacity of 1,643 tdw . The machinery consisted of a 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine from Wigham Richardson with 950 PSi at 75 / min and a propeller and allowed a speed of 10.5 knots . The loading gear consisted of five 5-tonne cargo arms made of pitch pin . Two passengers could be taken in special cabins. The crew consisted of 15 nautical and 8 technical personnel. She and her sister ship Stahleck , which were delivered on May 20, 1902, were by far the smallest of the 28 ships delivered by the British shipyard to DDG Hansa between 1882 and 1911.
It was the second ship of the shipping company with the name Soneck after a steamer of 834 GRT delivered by AG Weser in 1883 , which had been sold to Norway in early 1902. Four other ships of the shipping company bore the name in the following years.
history
Cargo shipping
The ship was drafted at the beginning of the First World War on August 3, 1914 by the Imperial Navy and used as a coal ship XVIII . On October 27, 1914, it was returned to the DDG "Hansa". It then provided ore and coal voyages in the North and Baltic Seas until 1917. In July 1917 it was drafted a second time by the Imperial Navy and was used again as a coal ship XVIII until December 1918 .
After the end of the war, the Soneck came back to the DDG "Hansa", which had lost all of its other ships and, as soon as the victorious powers allowed it, put the ship back into service in Portugal . The sister ship Stahleck was seized by a Russian submarine in the Baltic Sea in 1915 and was lost in 1927 as Garibaldi in Soviet service in a collision on the Elbe.
On October 10, 1932, the DDG "Hansa" sold the ship to the steam shipping company "Neptun" in Bremen , which renamed it Latona . On May 29, 1935 the ship was sold back to the DDG "Hansa" and got its old name back.
Navy
On August 26, 1936, the Navy bought the ship, placed it under the command of the NVA; from August 1, 1939, the NVK, and left it as a test ship for radio measurement technology at the Norderwerft Köser & Meyer in Hamburg remodel. The ship was put into service on October 20, 1936 under the new name Strahl . It was armed with two 2 cm flak and was now used to test airborne flight measuring devices (" FLUM") and radio measuring devices ("FuMG"). Among other things, in August 1941 , the Strahl carried out test trials in the Lofjord near Trondheim ( Norway ) with the submarine U 67 , which had been equipped with a coating of rubber plates to protect against ASDIC location .
post war period
After the war ended, the ship was confiscated by Great Britain. It then served as a barge for the 1st mine clearing division of the German mine clearance service until 1948 . When it was towed to Great Britain for demolition, it sank in the North Sea on February 2, 1949 en route to Blyth .
Web links
- Soneck (2) at ddghansa-shipsphotos, with many photos also as a beam
- The mine clearance boats R-11, R-12, R-13, R-14 and R-15 and the Strahl 1938 in Neustadt
- Soneck (1902)
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 5: Auxiliary ships: hospital ships, living ships, training ships, research vehicles, port service vehicles . Bernard & Graefe, 1988.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sister ship was the Stahleck
- ↑ Soneck (1)
- ↑ Radio Fairs in Germany - The Development 1936–39 . ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 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.
- ↑ Joachim Beckh: Blitz & Anker, Volume 2: Information Technology, History & Backgrounds . tape 2 . Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2997-6 , pp. 99 (636 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
