Westfalen
Country | Germany |
Builder | Joh. C. Tecklenborg Schiffswerft- und Maschinenfabrik AG |
Yard Number | 208 |
Launched | 14 Nov 1905 |
Commissioned | 30 Dec 1906 |
Sunk | 7 Sep 1944 |
Displacement | 5,098 tons standard |
Length | 409 feet |
Beam | 53 feet |
Draft | 28 feet |
Machinery | 1 quadruple expansion steam engine, 4 boilers, 1 screw |
Power Output | 3,000 shaft horsepower |
Speed | 12 knots |
Crew | 54 |
Armament | 2x20mm anti-aircraft guns |
Aircraft | 1x Dornier Wal or Do 18 flying boat |
Aircraft Crane | 1 |
Aircraft Catapult | 1 |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseWestfalen was launched by the Tecklenborg shipyard in Geestemünde, Bremerhaven, Germany in 1905. In the early 1930s, she was converted into a seaplane tender to serve as a weather reporting and refueling station for Dornier Wal flying boats of Deutsche Luft Hansa, which carried mail between Europe and South America. She assisted in the first trans-Atlantic flight tests in 1933, and began supporting commercial mail flights in 1934. After the start of the European War in 1939, she served as a transport between Germany and Norway. On 7 Sep 1944, while carrying a number of Norwegian prisoners, she hit a mine and sank about 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) west-northwest of Gothenburg, Sweden, killing a number of the German crew and most of the Norwegians. 78 survived.
ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia
Last Major Revision: Jul 2020
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14 Nov 1905 | Westfalen was launched by the Tecklenborg shipyard in Geestemünde, Bremerhaven, Germany. |
30 Dec 1906 | Westfalen was completed. |
28 Jul 1943 | Westfalen departed Bodø, Norway, escorted by auxiliary trawler V 5717 Fritz Homann. |
7 Sep 1944 | Westfalen hit a mine and sank off Gothenburg Sweden. |
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