Diver (ship, 1935)
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Die Taucher was a special ship built in 1935 for diver training in the Navy . As with many of the small ships, there is only a fragmentary tradition. The ship survived the Second World War damaged. The last sighting of the divers dates back to December 1945, after which their trail is lost.
Construction and technical data
In 1934 the Reichsmarine commissioned the Stülcken shipyard in Hamburg with the construction of a training ship , which was to be specially tailored to the training of divers. The shipyard put the ship under construction number 690 on Kiel, the launch took place with the name Taucher in spring 1935. The handover of the ship to the Navy and the commissioning took place on April 16, 1935.
The ship was 30.00 meters long, 6.80 meters wide and had a draft of 1.90 meters. The design displacement was 202 tons. The drive consisted of a diesel engine that achieved 240 hp and acted on one screw. With this the ship reached a speed of 6.5 knots . Further technical information is also not available, such as data on team strength. It is known, however, that the ship was not armed.
history
After the commissioning, the diver was initially assigned to the Wilhelmshaven naval shipyard . On February 1, 1942, she was relocated to the Baltic Sea and assigned to the 1st ship trunk department, which in turn was assigned to the “2nd Admiral of the Baltic Sea ”. More detailed information on the history of the ship during this time is not available. It is also unclear when exactly it received the damage from one or more bomb attacks. These are only mentioned after the war.
The last confirmed sighting of the ship took place on December 13, 1945. At this point in time it was under the Marine Rescue and Maritime Emergency Service Command. Damage caused by bombs is also mentioned from this time. Then the further trace of the ship is lost.
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815–1945, Vol. 6: Port operations vehicles (II: excavators, recovery and diving vehicles, icebreakers, tugs, transport vehicles), yachts and Avisos, landing units (I) , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1989, ISBN 3-7637-4805-9 .
- Siegfried Breyer: Special and special ships of the Kriegsmarine (I) , Marine-Arsenal Volume 30, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1995, ISBN 3-7909-0523-2 .