shipwreck German transport vessel "Salzburg"
My article: "The Salzburg’s tragedy" The German army occupied the whole Crimean peninsula in the summer of 1942. About 200 thousand soldiers and officers of the Red Army were captured during the military operations. The western part of the Black Sea came under the full control of the Germans. Transportation of raw material from the occupied Ukrainian territories to European factories became easier, and weapons for the Eastern Front were forged there day and night. The increased number of cargo transportation demanded more and more transport. The Germans quickly moved cargo ships from the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean one to the Black Sea. One of those ships was a transport ship called the Salzburg. It passed the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus in April 1942. The ship was built at a shipyard in the Netherlands (Scheepswerft van der Groot en van Vliet), and it was put into service as the Dutch freighter Slot Loevestein in February 1922. It had a draught of about 3,300 tons and its capacity was 1,742 register-tons. The ship was renamed and called the Jonge Antony in 1924. The Dutch sold it to a German shipping company from Hamburg in 1939. The ship got its name the Salzburg since then. It was mobilized and was attached to Luftwaffe (the Fourth Air Fleet) as a transport vessel on the 16th of May 1941. The 1st of October 1942. At a. m. (Berlin time) the Salzburg left Ochakov as a part of a convoy carrying manganese ore (840 tons), empty metal barrels and about 2,300 Soviet prisoners of war (the historian I. V. Alekseev believes that there were also scrap metal and broken ammunition).
Size: 4304px × 2860px
Location: Odessa or Odesa, Ukraine, Eastern Europe
Photo credit: © Andrey Nekrasov / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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