Sachsenwald was a fishing trawler that was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. She served as a supply ship, the weather ship...
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from a rubber dinghy in the evening at 19:30. The next day the German trawler Sachsenwald rescued another two from a raft at 22:45. One of the men picked...
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Last battle of Bismarck (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Höntzsch, and Manthey) and the following day at 22:45 the German weather ship Sachsenwald picked up two survivors from a raft (Lorenzen and Maus). The...
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naval ships of Germany includes all naval ships which have been in service of the German Navy or its predecessors. Other lists include: List of ships of...
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HMS Dorsetshire (40) (category Ships built in Portsmouth)
Maori, 3 rescued by U-74 and a further 2 picked up by the German weather ship Sachsenwald. Rodney, King George V and the destroyers Sikh, Zulu and Cossack...
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Operation Rheinübung (category German battleship Bismarck)
Another three survivors were picked up by U-74 and two by the German weather ship Sachsenwald. Over 2,000 died, including Captain Lindemann and Admiral Lütjens...
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conclusion of World War II in 1945. See the list of naval ships of Germany for ships in German service throughout the country's history. Torpedoboot 1923...
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Gröschel. She served with the Kriegsmarine during World War II as the weather ship WBS 3 Fritz Homann, WBS 4 Fritz Homann and the vorpostenboote Neptune...
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and a weather ship during World War II. She was sold to Norway in 1956 and renamed Meløytrål, serving until 1979 when she was scrapped. The ship was 43...
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German East Africa (GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda,...
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Vorpostenboot (redirect from Flak ship)
vessel, capturing it. The motor launch was later brought back to a German port by Sachsenwald and Gotland.[relevant?] By summer of 1942, Kriegsmarine auxiliaries...
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Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II. Completed in 1940, the ship spent the war in Norwegian and French waters, escorting German ships and occasionally...
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Italian destroyer Pilade Bronzetti (redirect from German torpedo boat TA35)
to postpone the operation due to bad weather. The ships attempted the raid again on 16 March, but adverse weather again forced its postponement. They made...
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Günther Lütjens (category Articles containing German-language text)
saved by German submarine U-74, under the command of Captain Lieutenant Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat, and the weather observation ship Sachsenwald. The Befehlshaber...
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French seaplane carrier Commandant Teste (redirect from French ship Commandant Teste)
the ship's high profile, there were concerns about her stability in bad weather as she had a significant amount of weight mounted high in the ship; notably...
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Ernst Lindemann (category Captains who went down with the ship)
were saved by German submarine U-74 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat and the weather observation ship Sachsenwald. The Befehlshaber...
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notable series of erotic films which were secretly shot in 1941 were Sachsenwald films. According to Pauley, "literature was the first branch of the arts...
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List of Vorpostenboote in World War II (category World War II auxiliary ships of Germany)
used by Germany in both World Wars. Many vorpostenboote also served in other roles, such as sperrbrecher (mine clearance) and weather ships. During World...
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Adalbert Schneider (category Articles containing German-language text)
command of Kapitänleutnant Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat and the weather observation ship Sachsenwald. Bismarck sunk Burkard Freiherr von Müllenheim-Rechberg was...
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"Group Westmark". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 1 October 2015. Blair p252 Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit by U-230". German U-boats of WWII...
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32083°W / 47.17389; -2.32083 (RMS Lancastria) Sachsenwald Kriegsmarine 6 August 1944 A German weather ship that was sunk by a British convoy off Île d'Yeu...
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been engaged by four troops. On 1 May the division began clearing the Sachsenwald, which mainly involved dealing with rearguards and rounding up prisoners...
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were found, it is possible the ship was sunk by a "drifter" which had broken loose and floated away due to the poor weather. It is also possible that the...
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Bolten. She was sunk in a battle in the English Channel in July 1944. The ship was 45.75 metres (150 ft 1 in) long, with a beam of 7.40 metres (24 ft 3 in)...
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Patrols by German U-boat U-270". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 2 August 2012. Gröner 1991, pp. 43–46. Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit by U-270"...
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German submarine U-925 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was ordered on 25 August 1941, and was laid down...
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HMCS Alberni (category Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II)
D-day landing site, Alberni was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-480. The ship sank quickly and 59 sailors were killed, with the remaining...
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regiment to do so. The division continued to advance rapidly through the Sachsenwald towards Hamburg, which surrendered before the division reached itt. The...
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List of shipwrecks in May 1941 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
The list of shipwrecks in May 1941 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1941. For the loss of the British tanker...
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Italian submarine Giuseppe Finzi (category Ship infoboxes without an image)
sinking five Allied ships. Gisueppe Finzi began conversion into a transport submarine in 1943, but was captured by the Germans in September 1943 before...
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