Wetterbeobachtungs-Schiff

Coburg

WBS 2


Cape Sussi 1943

Built

Name

Type

Homeport

Owner

1938

Coburg
PG 530

Trawler

Geestemünde

H. Bischoff & Co, Bremen

Kriegs-
marine

Name

WBS#

WBS-Service

Complement

1940

Coburg
(Schiff 4)

2
(4)

3.8.40
5.5.44 V

18 crew
8 meteorologists


Wreck of Coburg inspected by USCG Cutter Northland july 1944.

Operation: Brausewetter
15.3. - 23.3.1943

Bjørnøya (Bear Island) (1943) WFL - Transport

15.3.1943: Coburg departed Hammerfest (guarded by U-378) on a mission to establish a new automatic weather station on Bjørnøya WFL 23 "Erwin II" to replace WFL 22 "Erwin" landed by U-657 in 1942. Bjørnøya (18.3.-21.3). Coburg returned to Narvik on 23.3.1943. 

Operation: Bassgeiger 
14.8.1943-3.6.1944

East Greenland (1943 - 1944) - Transport of weather party
Landed weather party at Kap Sussi, Shannon Island - frozen in and later damaged by icebergs. Weather party and WBS crew evacuated to Trondheim by Junkers 290 airplane (3.6.1944).


No covers

Feldpost Nr.
M 33 060

(1.10.40-11.3.43)
Wetter-Fischdampfer "Coburg"
Wetterbeobachtungsschiff No. 2

Feldpost Nr.
M 54 330

(14.3.44-27.12.44)
Wetterbeobachtungsschiff No. 2

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

 

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