Wetterbeobachtungs-Schiff

Wuppertal

WBS 1

Built

Name

Type

Homeport

Owner

1927

Albert Ballin
Wuppertal (1934)
HC 191

Trawler

Cuxhaven

"Nordsee" Deutsche Hochseefischerei, Cuxhaven

Kriegs-
marine

Name

WBS#

WBS-Service

Complement

17.9.1939

Wuppertal

1

3.8.43
?.1.45 V

17 crew
4 meteorologists

Note: 1939-43: Vorpostenboot V 1305

Operation "Zugvogel" 1944-45

North Atlantic (Sept. 1944 - Jan. 1945) - WBS
Floating weather station near the ice edge between Spitsbergen and Greenland - presumed foundered with all hands during storm in jan. 1945.

Feldpost Nr.
M 08 891

(19.1.44-26.3.45)
Wetterbeobachtungsschiff 1

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

 

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