Triumph (ship)

triumph

Ship data flag  Canada German Empire   Ship type Trawler, temporary auxiliary cruiser Shipping company British Columbia Fisheries Shipyard Charlton & Doughton, Grimsby Launch 1907 Whereabouts Self-sunk on August 25, 1918 by the German prize garrison.

Ship dimensions and crew length 37.23 m ( Lüa ) width 6.70 m Draft Max. 3.73 m measurement 239 GRT   crew 16 (as prize crew)

The Triumph (1907) was a Canadian trawler that was hijacked by the German submarine U 156 on August 20, 1918 and operated successfully as a fish steamer trap off the Canadian east coast for five days with a German prize crew .

Technical specifications

The triumph was in 1907 at the shipyard of Charlton & Doughton in Grimsby ( England ) from the stack and was from the Canadian British Columbia Fisheries bereedert . Their size was 239 GRT with a load capacity of around 500 tons . There is no information about the machine performance and speed .

Use as an auxiliary cruiser

On August 20, 1918, U 156 took the boat southwest of Cap Canso ( Cape Breton Island ) off the Canadian coast as a prize and equipped it as an auxiliary cruiser. For this purpose, the fish steamer received the two 8.8-cm guns and a crew of 16 men who were also brought along for this task. After the boat had apparently sunk eight British and Canadian fish steamers, it was self- sunk on August 25, 1918 by its prize crew .

literature

• Erich Gröner u. a .: The German warships 1815-1945 , vol. 8/2: river vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats , auxiliary minesweepers , coastal protection associations , Munich 1993, p. 533f.