WWII German Kriegsmarine Barrier Breaker 19 ROSTOCK Original Photo Lot 1941-42
Rare WWII German Kriegsmarine photographic group - Sperrbrecher 19, ex S. Very interesting and unusual group of period photographs relating to the German Kriegsmarine vessel. The former German merchant steamer. The photographs come from the same personal group and show.
Of particular importance, a number of photographs are. Identified on the reverse in contemporary German handwriting as Sperrbr.
19 auf hoher See and dated 1941 or 1942. One photograph is specifically annotated. 19 - 3.7 cm Flak. Identifying the vessel and its 3.7 cm anti-aircraft gun. History of Sperrbrecher 19 / S. And entered commercial service in 1923. 100.2 metres in length and 13.8 metres in beam. With a gross tonnage of approximately. And was powered by a triple-expansion steam engine. During the early months of WWII.Was intercepted off the Iberian Peninsula by the French Navy and taken as a prize. Under French control she was renamed. Following the German invasion of France, the vessel was recovered by the Germans in 1940 and resumed her former name. 20 May 1941 at Brest.
She was commissioned into the Kriegsmarine as. 1 July 1941 to the 6. The 6th Sperrbrecher Flotilla operated from the French Atlantic coast, initially from the Nantes/Concarneau area, carrying out. Sperrbrecher 19 was equipped with systems intended to counter magnetic mines as well as substantial defensive armament.Published specifications for the vessel give an armament including. 2 × 10.5 cm guns 6 × 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns multiple 2 cm anti-aircraft guns. One of the photographs offered here is particularly interesting as its handwritten caption explicitly identifies the.
"3.7 cm Flak" aboard Sperrbrecher 19. While several of the photographs show her weapons and their crews. The vessel's wartime commander from. 30 May 1941 until 15 June 1944.
Kapitänleutnant, later Korvettenkapitän Friedrich Plate. Published records credit Sperrbrecher 19 with.
16 June 1941-15 June 1944. Preserved among the German naval operational records under references.
By the summer of 1944 the Allied advance had transformed the situation on the French Atlantic coast. Sperrbrecher 19 was decommissioned at.Left Lorient carrying German wounded and medical personnel. She was intercepted in the Bay of Biscay by British motor torpedo boats. MTB 696 and MTB 713. Her extraordinary career did not end there.
The former Sperrbrecher 19 finally met her end in. After being severely damaged during the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict and sinking there. This is a particularly evocative photographic record of a documented Kriegsmarine vessel during its operational service. The group includes photographs showing, among other subjects.
Sperrbrecher 19 at sea - Kriegsmarine sailors and officers - gun crews - 3.7 cm Flak - other anti-aircraft weapons - deck and superstructure details - bridge/watchkeeping scenes - shipboard work and daily life - crew photographs. Several backs bear handwritten wartime identifications and dates, including.