Built

Name

Type

Homeport

Owner

1929

J. F. Schröder
Sachsen (1933)
HC 214

Trawler

Cuxhaven

"Nordsee" Deutsche Hochseefischerei, Cuxhaven

Kriegs-
marine

Name

WBS#

WBS-Service

Complement

22.5.1940

Sachsen
"Hermann" (42-43)

1

18.9.40
?.6.43 V

15 crew
5 meteorologists

Operation "Sachsen" 1940

Denmark Strait (18. Sept. 1940 - 23. Nov. 1940) - WBS

Operation "Sachsen" 1941

Jan Mayen area (Spring to summer 1941 - 86 days) - WBS

Operation "Knospe" 1941

Spitsbergen (26. Sept 1941 - 15. Nov. 1941) - transport of weather party to Signahamna, Vestspitsbergen.

On 26 September 1941 the two supply vessels Fritz Homann and Sachsen left Kiel bound for Tromsø, which was reached on 10 October. On 12 October both vessels left Tromsø; Bjørnøya was passed on the following day and on 14 October the southern coast of Spitsbergen was sighted. Both vessels anchored on 15 October in Signehamna, a small bay on the western side of Lilliehöökfjorden. Two days later Fritz Homann and Sachsen began to unload the stores and equipment; a line was rigged between the vessels and the landfast ice, and boats and rafts were propelled along it by hand and by 29 October the shore station was ready. It was intended that the supply vessels should delay their departure until the dark season. On 4 November Sachsen was released by means of explosive charges from the ice which had already begun to form and inspected Ny Ålesund in Kongsfjord and returned to Signehamna. On 15 November Fritz Homann and Sachsen left on the homeward voyage.

Operation "Holzauge" 1942-43

East Greenland (12. Aug. 1942 - 17. Jun. 1943) - Transport.
Cover-name: "Hermann" - scruttled in Hansa Bay before the
german party were evacuated by Dornier 26 flying-boat.

Feldpost Nr.
M 09 014

(15.9.40-31.1.41)
Fischdampfer "Sachsen"
Wetter-Fischdampfer "Sachsen"
(1.2.41-14.7.42)
Wetterbeobachtungsschiff No. 1
(15.7.42-5.4.44)
Küstenwachschiff "Hermann"