Wetterbeobachtungs-Schiff
Ostmark
WBS 5
Wetterbeobachtungs-Schiff Ostmark WBS 5
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Built |
Name |
Type |
Homeport |
Owner |
|
1934 |
Ostmark |
Trawler |
Geestemünde |
"Nordsee" Deutsche Hochseefischerei, Wesermünde |
|
Kriegs- |
Name |
WBS# |
WBS-Service |
Complement |
|
1.12.1940 |
Ostmark |
5 |
9.12.40 - |
16 crew |
Ersatz Adolf Vinnen (lost
24.10.1940)
Refitted as WBS at Deschimag Werk, Seebeck, Wesermünde (9.-23.12.1940)
|
8.1.1941 - medio
Feb 1941 |
Northeast of Iceland (OG 2) - WBS WBS in OG 2 (Operations Gebiet) northeast of Iceland in support of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau - Operation Berlin. Departed Trondheim (?) on 8th January for Operation Area 2 (Northeast of Iceland - naval grid square AE 39). Returned to Trondheim in medio February. (App. 35 days at sea). - relieved by WBS 6. Marinegruppe-Kommando Nord In same operation: WBS 1 and WBS 2 |
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2.4.1941 - 6.5.1941 |
Northeast of Iceland (OG 2) - WBS WBS in OG 2 (Operations Gebiet) northeast of Iceland in support of Bismarck and Prinz Eugen - Operation Rheinübung. Departed Trondheim on 2nd April for Operation Area 2 (Northeast of Iceland - naval grid square AE 39). Returned to Trondheim on 6th May. (App. 32 days at sea). - relieved by WBS 6. Marinegruppe-Kommando Nord In same operation: |
No covers
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Feldpost Nr. M 29 803 |
(16.2.41)-4.9.41 Wetterbeobachtungsschiff "Ostmark" Wetterbeobachtungsschiff No. 5 |
From: "Die deutsche Feldpostübersicht 1939-1945" by Norbert Kannapin.
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