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Tannenfels in 1938
History
Germany
NameTannenfels
OwnerDDG Hansa
Port of registryBremen, Germany
Launched9 April 1938
Commissioned11 June 1938
FateScuttled in 1944 as a blockship in La Gironde
General characteristics
Tonnage
Length155.47 m LOA
Beam18.69 m
Draught8.26 m
Installed power7,600 hp (5,590 kW)
Propulsion2 × 6-cylinder double-acting diesel engines
Speed16 knots
Crew45
Armament37mm and 20mm machine guns;1 15 cm SK C/28
NotesFought with Stier in her last battle, lightly damaged

MS Tannenfels was a German cargo ship owned by DDG Hansa, put into service in 1938. She served as a blockade runner during World War II.

When the war broke out in 1939, Tannenfels was at Kismayo, in Italian Somaliland. She remained there until January 1941, when British troops entered Italian Somaliland. She then sailed for Europe via the Cape of Good Hope, eventually reaching German-occupied France.

She was taken over by the Kriegsmarine and commissioned as an auxiliary naval vessel. She was fitted with machine guns and some larger naval guns for self-defense. During the next year and a half, she was employed as a blockade runner, slipping past British patrols to deliver supplies to German armed merchant cruisers at sea. In December 1942 at Bordeaux, she was damaged by limpet mines placed by British commandos (Operation Frankton), and was no longer seaworthy. She was eventually scuttled as a blockship in the Gironde River in 1944.

With the J Class raider Stier

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References

  1. "M/S Tannenfels". DDGHansa-ShipsPhotos.de. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  2. Miller (2011), p. 40
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