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German fishing trawler and vorpostenboot
History
Name Jupiter
Owner
Dollart Heringfischerei (1936–39)
Kriegsmarine (1939–44)
Port of registry
Builder Schulte & Bruns, Emden
Yard number 108
Launched 27 June 1936
Completed 28 July 1936
Commissioned 9 October 1939
Out of service 11 August 1944
Identification
Fishing boat registration AE 79 (1937–39)
Code Letters DGKF (1937-44)
Pennant Number M 1404 (1939–42)
Pennant Number M 4415 (1942–43)
Pennant Number V 623 (1944)
Fate Scuttled
General characteristics
Type
Tonnage 267 GRT , 126 NRT
Length 35.76 m (117 ft 4 in)
Beam 7.49 metres (24 ft 7 in)
Depth 3.28 m (10 ft 9 in)
Installed power Diesel engine, 98nhp
Propulsion Single screw propeller
Speed 11 knots (20 km/h)
Jupiter was a German
V 623 Jupiter . She was scuttled in 1944.
Description
The ship was 35.76 m (117 ft 4 in) long, with a beam of 7.49 metres (24 ft 7 in). She had a depth of 3.28 m (10 ft 9 in). She was assessed at 267
nhp. It drove a single screw propeller.
[1] It could propel the ship at 11 knots (20 km/h).
History
Almuth was built as
fishing boat registration AE 79.
On 9 October 1939, Jupiter was requisitioned by the
Loire-Inférieure, France,
[4] because she was unmanoeuverable.
References
Sources
Gröner, Erich (1993). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815-1945 (in German). Vol. 8/I: Flußfahrzeuge, Ujäger, Vorpostenboote, Hilfsminensucher, Küstenschutzverbände (Teil 1). Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe. .
1 Vorpostenflotille 2 Vorpostenflotille 3 Vorpostenflotille 4 Vorpostenflotille 5 Vorpostengruppe 6 Vorpostengruppe 6 Vorpostenflotille 7 Vorpostenflotille 8 Vorpostenflotille 9 Vorpostenflotille 10 Vorpostenflotille 11 Vorpostenflotille 12 Vorpostenflotille 13 Vorpostenflotille 14 Vorpostenflotille 15 Vorpostenflotille 16 Vorpostengruppe 16 Vorpostenflotille 17 Vorpostenflotille 18 Vorpostengruppe 18 Vorpostenflotille 19 Vorpostenflotille 20 Vorpostenflotille 51 Vorpostenflotille 53 Vorpostenflotille 55 Vorpostenflotille 57 Vorpostenflotille 59 Vorpostenflotille 61 Vorpostenflotille 63 Vorpostenflotille 64 Vorpostenflotille 65 Vorpostenflotille 66 Vorpostenflotille 67 Vorpostenflotille 68 Vorpostenflotille 7 & 13 Sicherungsflotille Vessels are listed under their first designation within each Vorpostenflotille . Subsequent changes in pennant numbers not shown.
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in August 1944
Shipwrecks
2 Aug: USS Fiske
3 Aug: HMS Quorn
4 Aug: Tannenfels , Matsu
5 Aug: Mefküre , U-671
6 Aug: Empire City , Sachsenwald , Thétis , U-471 , U-736 , U-952 , U-969 , V 215 Oliva
7 Aug: Amsterdam , Empire Day , Nagara
8 Aug: Conte Verde , HMCS Regina , Tama Maru No. 6 , V 404 Falke
9 Aug: Spichern
10 Aug: U-608
11 Aug: V 623 Jupiter , U-385 , U-967
12 Aug: T-114 , T-118 , U-198 , U-981 , V 410 Germania
13 Aug: USS Flier , U-270 , V 1101 Preußsen
14 Aug: V 605 Arthur Duncker , Gueydon , U-618
15 Aug: U-741
16 Aug: Trémintin
17 Aug: TA35
18 Aug: La Galissonnière , Natori , Strasbourg , Taiyō , Teia Maru , U-107 , U-129 , U-621 , V 406 Hans Loh
19 Aug: Commandant Teste , Hayasui , Tamatsu Maru , U-123 , U-466 , V-6112 Friese
20 Aug: Richard Montgomery , U-9 , U-413 , U-984 , U-1229 . V 409 August Bösch
21 Aug: HMCS Alberni , HMS Kite , HMS Orchis , U-230 , V 402 Dr. Adolf Spilker , Z23
22 Aug: HMS Bickerton , HMS Loyalty , Matsuwa , Tsushima Maru , U-344 , V 401 Jan Mayen , V 405 J. Hinrich Wilhelms , V 413 Ferdinand Niedermeyer
23 Aug: Asakaze , U-180
24 Aug: USS Harder , NMS Mihail Kogălniceanu , U-354 , U-445 , Z37
25 Aug: Sperrbrecher 136 , U-18 , U-24 , U-178 , U-667 , UIT-21 , Yūnagi , Z24
26 Aug: Samidare , U-188 , V 404 Baden , V 411 Saarland
27 Aug: HMS Britomart , Clemenceau , HMS Hussar
28 Aug: John Barry , V 407 Dorum
30 Aug: De Grasse , M553
31 Aug: Shirataka
Unknown date: Condorcet , Kulmerland , Marechal Petain , U-925
Other incidents