Re: LÜTJE HORN - 1932
Posted by:
de domenico (IP Logged)
Date: October 12, 2012 11:18AM
No, only a vessel of the same name used as an ammuniton transport by the Kriegsmarine from 1939 on (from 1937 a backup KM troop transport for the Spanish civil war, having been captured as ALLEGRO by the Nationalist navy while taking weapons & ammo to the Republicans, 4.1937 under Panamanian flag as BALBOA , charterer later owner Hanseges. Aschpurweis & Veltjens/Hamburg), ex Swedish HEMLAND (1896 to 1922), ex British MIDAS, 1939 grt/1883. Under German flag as LUETJEHORN June 1939, 23.8.1939 KM ammo transport but little used, returned to owner 28.10.1939, lost on a mine near Kolberg on 4.1.1945.