V5903 polar front
| Ship data | |
|---|---|
| Launch: | 1941 |
| Commissioning: | December 15, 1941 |
| Builder: | Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted, Fredrikstad (Norway) |
| Crew: | 35 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement : |
Standard : 308 ts Insert: 337 ts |
| Length: | over all: 39.75 m KWL : |
| Width: | 7.67 m |
| Draft (middle): | 4.04 m |
| Machinery: | a 4-cylinder double compound piston steam engine |
| Top speed: | 12 kn |
| Driving range: | |
| Fuel supply: | |
| Armament | |
| Air defense: | 1 × 7.5 cm flak 1 × 2 cm flak 2 × sMG from 1942: 1 × 8.8 cm 2 × 3.7 cm 6 × 2 cm 2 × MG |
| Underground hunt: | two depth charges |
The patrol boat V5903 polar front was a warship of the Navy in World War II .
Navy
V5903 was a Norwegian whaling boat type . The Navy had it built in 1941 at the Norwegian shipyard Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted in Fredrikstad and used it as an outpost boat for the 59th outpost flotilla, which secured the coastal area between Tromsø and Kirkenes in northern Norway .
Post-war use
After the war, the boat was under Allied control in German mine clearing service (German Mine Sweeping Administration (GMSA)) for demining used in Norwegian waters. It belonged to the 2nd group of the 53rd outpost flotilla of the 4th mine clearing division.
In 1947 the boat was handed over to the Soviet Union .
literature
- Heinz Ciupa: The German warships 1939-1945 . VPM, ISBN 3-8118-1409-5 .
- Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 8 Part 1 and 2: River vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection associations . Bernard & Graefe, 1993, ISBN 3-7637-4808-3 .
Web links
- German mine clearance service on October 15, 1945 , accessed on August 25, 2011
- Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronicle of the naval war 1939-1945
Footnotes
- ↑ The other boats in the group were the whaling boats Seebär , Seelöwe , Seewolf and OB Rogge and the auxiliary clearance boats Zwerg 1–10 .
- ↑ Erich Gröner: The German Warships 1815-1945 Volume 8 Part 1 and 2: River vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection associations p. 148.