Waldemar Kophamel (ship, 1939)
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The Waldemar Kophamel was in World War II in the German Navy and then up in the 1970s in the Soviet Navy serving submarine tender .
The ship, named after Waldemar Kophamel (1880–1934), a submarine commander in World War I , was the second of a total of eight planned Wilhelm Bauer class ships , of which only four were stacked and only three completed were, the type ship Wilhelm Bauer , the Waldemar Kophamel and the Otto Wünsche . The three ships were the largest fleet tenders in the Navy.
Construction and technical data
The ship was launched on 15 May 1939 at the Howaldtswerke Navy shipyard in Kiel Yard No. 760 from the stack and was put into service on 21 October 1940th It was 132.7 m long (126.2 m in the waterline ) and 16 m wide, had a draft of 4.97 m and displaced 5600 t . It was armed with four (from 1944 only two) 10.5-cm L / 45 flak , from 1944 one 4-cm flak Bofors , two 3.7-cm flak and four (from 1944 twelve) 2-cm flak. The crew numbered 289 men and the ship accommodated up to 423 submarine crews. Two propellers and four MAN - diesel engines with a total of 12,400 horsepower gave the ship a top speed of 20.5 knots . The range of action was 9,000 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 15 knots.
Navy
The ship became an escort ship with the 27th U-Flotilla , from February 1941 with the 24th U-Flotilla and from February 1942 again with the 27th U-Flotilla. The commanders were Korvettenkapitän Erich Langer (October 1940 - June 1944) and Kapitänleutnant Mollandin (June 1944 - December 1944). On December 18, 1944, the ship was sunk in Gotenhafen by British aerial bombs .
Soviet Navy
The Soviet Navy had the ship lifted in 1949/50 and overhauled from September 1951 to October 1955 at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock . The ship was added to the naval fleet on September 5, 1951 under the name Kuban (Russian: Кубань) and, after its completion, served in the Northern Fleet until September 17, 1973 . After that it was used as a residential ship PKZ-12 until February 9, 1978 and then decommissioned and scrapped.
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 Volume 4: Auxiliary ships I: Workshop ships, tenders and escort ships, tankers and supply companies. Bernard & Graefe, 1986, ISBN 978-3-7637-4803-7 .
- Siegfried Breyer: Special and special ships of the Kriegsmarine (I). Marine-Arsenal, Volume 30, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Eggolsheim-Bammersdorf, 1995, ISBN 3-7909-0523-2 .