Wellgunde (ship, 1908)
The Wellgunde was a German steam logger or fish logger, which was used by the Imperial Navy and the Kriegsmarine as an auxiliary ship or outpost boat in the First and Second World Wars . It was named after one of the three Rhine daughters .
Technical specifications
- Shipyard: Frerichswerft , Einswarden on behalf of Heringsfischerei AG Visurgis , Nordenham
- Build number: 167
- Launched: April 1908
- Size: 137 GRT, approx. 325 t
- Length: 27.79 m
- Width: 6.53 m
- Draft: 3.00 m
- Drive: steam engine
- Power: 70 hp
- Speed: 7 kn
history
As far as is known, the Wellgunde was used from 1908 to 1915 by the Visurgis from Nordenham in herring fishing . Your fishing license was ON 4 (= Oldenburg -Nordenham). From November 1915 to December 1917 she served in the Imperial Navy. Then she was returned to the Visurgis and continued to catch herring until she was so badly damaged by a sea mine on August 4, 1918 that she was wrecked . It was repaired again, unknown when, and used again in the fishing business. In 1925 it was transferred to the Deutsche Seeverkehrs-AG “Midgard” .
From August 1931 it carried the BV 1 fishing license (= Bremen - Vegesack ). On June 13, 1940 she was used by the Navy as a guard vehicle. On July 16, it was renamed V 1910 , and on February 15, 1944 Vs 510 . On April 15, 1946, she was returned to her private owners and possibly used again in fishing. On May 9, 1951, it was sold to the Bremen company E. Gross for scrapping.
Sister ships
Sister ships were the Woglinde , Flusshilde , Hunding , Hagen , Gunther , Fasold and Alberich .
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 , Volume 8/2: River vehicles, Ujäger, outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection associations (Part 2), Bonn 1993. ISBN 3-7637-4807-5
- Günther Diercks / Reinhold Thiel: J. Frerichs & Co. Frerichswerft. Flethe / Rönnebeck - Osterholz-Scharmbeck - Einswarden , Bremen (Verlag HM Hauschild GmbH) 2001. ISBN 3-89757-092-0