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LUTTEUR
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Photographer:adenanthos [ View profile ]
Title:Lutteur
Photo Category:Service Craft
Added:Jul 7, 2021
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Image Resolution:1,350 x 796
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Does anybody know the identity of this Tug ?
Location unknown but could be a French port.
Photo via Jaap Bijl
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400grt 585disp, 40.20 x 8.00 x 4.00m
built 1919 Arsenal de la Marine, Brest
Twin T3cyl coal-fired 1000ihp 10kn 2scr
(one boiler from cancelled battleship FLANDRE)
1919 launched
1919 delivered to the French Navy as LUTTEUR
26/5/1940-4/6 participated in the Dunkerque evacuation 'Operation Dynamo'
18/6/1940 scuttled at Brest
1940 raised and repaired by the German Kriegsmarine, renamed V 1801 [some sources suggest renamed URSUS, but unlikely]
2/10/1940 Unternehmen Seelöwe, renamed O 22 S
12/1941: sunk (bombing?) - later raised and repaired
21/10/1942 transferred to Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven
13/5/1944 renamed NT 54
25/4/1944 sunk by airplane bomb at Kiel
12/1944 raised
8/5/1945 returned to the French Navy, renamed LUTTEUR
12/4/1946 condemned
19/9/1947 sold for demolition
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