Yorck (ship, 1936)
The Yorck was a customs cruiser of the Reich Ministry of Finance , which was used as a submarine hunter and flak carrier by the Navy from 1939 .
Construction and technical data
The ship, the second of three ships of its class , ran in 1936 on the shipyard Nobiskrug in Rendsburg with the hull number 450 from the stack . It was 42.75 m long and 6.40 m wide and had a draft of 2.65 m . Two 10-cylinder diesel engines with a total of 3200 hp enabled a top speed of 21 knots .
history
After its commissioning with its home port of Pillau , the ship patrolled off the East Prussian coast in the Baltic Sea . On August 1, 1939, in the course of the German preparations for the attack on Poland , the ship was requisitioned by the Navy, appropriately armed and designated as UJ 174 as a submarine hunter in the 17th submarine hunt formed in Kiel at the end of July. Flotilla put into service. The two sister ships Nettelbeck as UJ 171 and Freiherr vom Stein as UJ 172 were assigned to the flotilla. The flotilla provided service in the Baltic Sea including the Danish Belte and Sunde .
On June 1, 1940, the ship, together with its sister ship UJ 171 (ex Nettelbeck ), was transferred to the 2nd Flakjägergruppe, newly formed with effect from July 1, 1940, which was to fight British aircraft in the western North Sea and to the Flakjägerflotille in November of that year expanded and renamed accordingly. After appropriate conversion (arming with a 3.7 cm twin flak and two anti-aircraft machine guns ) it was given the new designation Fl.J 25 on June 25, 1940 . The former Nettelbeck was named Fl.J 26 . Objective of the flotilla was the Fla -protection of shipping traffic in the area Den Helder , Borkum , Emden , Wesermünde and Bremen .
After the dissolution of the flotilla on April 25, 1943, the ship was assigned to the 3rd minesweeping flotilla deployed in the Baltic Sea on May 1, 1943. The armament was reinforced and consisted in addition to the 3.7 cm twin flak on the forecastle of a 3.7 cm flak aft, two 20 mm anti-aircraft machine guns amidships and two 8.6 cm rocket launchers the sides. During the fighting in the Gulf of Finland and the eastern Baltic Sea, the ship was repeatedly exposed to Soviet air raids, but survived the end of the war.
His further fate is uncertain; it is said to have served in the German Minesweeping Administration (GMSA) for some time .
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/ujaeger/uj11-17.htm#17
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/flj.htm
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/mboote/m1-7.htm
Web links
literature
- Werner Fox and Carl-Ludwig Hahmann: The water customs service on the German coasts, estuaries, rivers and inland waters. 2nd edition, self-published, Hamburg, self-published, 1986.