History | |
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Germany | |
Name |
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Owner | Deutsche Hochsee Fischerei Bremen-Cuxhaven AG (1929– |
Port of registry |
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Builder | Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser |
Yard number | 235 |
Launched | June 1929 |
Completed | July 1929 |
Commissioned | 18 September 1940 |
Identification | |
Fate | Scuttled, 17 June 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Type |
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Tonnage | 284 GRT, 106 NRT |
Length | 42.70 metres (140 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 7.42 metres (24 ft 4 in) |
Depth | 3.78 metres (12 ft 5 in) |
Installed power | Diesel engine, 183nhp |
Propulsion | Single screw propeller |
Complement | 15, plus 5 meteorologists (Kriegsmarine) |
Hermann was a Kriegsmarine weather ship that was built in 1929 as the fishing trawler J. F. Schröder. She was renamed Sachsen in 1933 and requisitioned in 1940, serving as WBS 1 Sachsen. She was renamed Hermann in 1942, serving until scuttled off the coast of Greenland in June 1943.