Externsteine (wbs11) (28.10.2005)

Wetterbeobachtungs-Schiff

Externsteine

WBS 11

Externsteine after being captured in the ice Oct. 1944

Built	Name	Type	Homeport	Owner
1944	Externsteine ex. Mannheim	Trawler	-	"Nordsee" Deutsche Hochseefischerei, Wesermünde

Kriegs- marine	Name	WBS#	WBS-Service	Complement
1944	Externsteine	11	1944 capt. 16.10.44	19 crew 11 meteorologists

Externsteine - renamed Eastbreeze steaming into Boston (Dec. 1944)

Operation	Germany (1944) - WBS - No service
Operation: Edelweiss II 26.9.1944-16.10.1944	East Greenland (1944) - Transport of weather party Landed weather party at Lille Koldewey on 1.10. Intercepted on 16.10. by USCG Cutters Eastwind and Southwind before reaching the ice edge and became a prize of war.

Externsteine / Eastbreeze
in Boston (Dec 1944)

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Feldpost Nr.
M 61 867

(27.7.1944 - 22.1.45)
Wetterbeobachtungsschiff No. 11

From: "Die deutsche Feldpostübersicht 1939-1945" by Norbert Kannapin.