Theodoric (ship)
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The Theoderich was a general cargo ship with a moving track, which was stranded and abandoned once, then put back into motion and finally sunk twice during the Second World War .
Construction and technical data
The ship was on 14 March 1907 on the yard of Joseph L. Thompson and Sons in North Sands, Sunderland ( England ), with the hull number 451 and the name Eir for Jacob R. Olsen in Bergen (Norway) from the stack . It was 105.5 m long and 15.1 m wide, had a 7.7 m draft , and was measured with 3814 GRT and 2436 NRT . The load capacity was 6800 tons . The ship had two boilers and a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine with 350 nominal horsepower from J. Dickinson & Sons of Sunderland. The maximum speed was 10.5 knots .
history
In 1914 the ship was transferred to the Aktiengesellschaft A / S Jacob R. Olsen in Bergen and in May 1915 it was sold to the Aktiengesellschaft A / S Eir (manager Ivar An. Christensen) in Kristiania . In 1917 it was sold on to Erling Hansen in Kristiania. In 1917, the Stettiner Dampfschiffgesellschaft JF Braeunlich in Stettin bought the ship and renamed it Gudrun . After the German defeat in World War I , the ship had to be delivered to Great Britain in 1919 . It was taken into possession by the Shipping Controller and handed over to the London shipowner and broker Glover Brothers for ship management. In 1920 it was sold to the Eirene Steamship Co. in London and renamed Eirene . The company ran into financial difficulties in 1925 and went into liquidation ; the ship was sold to the Wyn Shipping Co. and renamed Wyncote . In 1931 it was sold to Italy to the shipping company Marino Querci in Genoa and renamed Collazzi .
On November 21, 1935, the ship anchored in the roadstead off Novorossiysk . The anchor did not hold in the storm and the Collazzi was driven onto the rocky coast. The owners gave up the ship and left it to the Soviet authorities, who later had it recovered and repaired. In 1939 the ship came to the Chernomorskoye Gosudarstvjennoje Morskoye Parochodstvo in Odessa , which renamed it Volochayevka ( Волочаевка ).
When the German Wehrmacht advanced towards the Crimea in August 1941 , the ship was self- scuttled by its crew near Cherson on August 18 . In 1942 the ship was lifted and repaired and then put into service under the new name Theoderich for the German Schwarzmeer-Schiffahrts-GmbH . It was now used to supply the German troops operating in the Black Sea region .
The End
On November 12, 1943, the Theodorich was on her way from Sevastopol to Constanța . On the way she was about 15 nautical miles south of Zatoka and northeast of the seaside resort Lebediwka (Лебедівка, English Bad Burnas), at position 45 ° 31 ′ 12 ″ N , 30 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E , by the Soviet submarine M-111 torpedoed . However, it could still be put on the beach and was temporarily made floatable again. When she was towed on November 22, she ran into a mine and sank about ten nautical miles west of Ochakiv .
Notes and individual references
- ↑ http://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33134/page/1284/page.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1939/40, Vol. I, London, 1939
- ↑ Meister wrote in 1972 that the ship fell into German hands on August 13 in Mykolaiv / Nikolajew (Jürg Meister: The Soviet Navy. 2 vol., Doubleday, 1972)
