:French ship Gapeau (B284)
{{Short description|German and French fishing trawler and auxiliary warship}}
{{other ships|French ship Gapeau}}
| {{Infobox ship begin
|infobox caption= |display title= }} {{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship image size= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country= |Ship flag= |Ship name=*Johann Schulte (1939–47)
|Ship namesake= |Ship owner=*Großer Kürfurst Heringfischerei AG (1939–40)
|Ship operator= |Ship registry=*{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} Emden, Germany (1937–39)
|Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Schulte & Bruns, Emden |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number=130 |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=22 March 1939 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed=27 April 1939 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=7 January 1940 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship identification=* Fishing boat registration AE 194 (1939–40)
|Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship honors= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=Scrapped |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type=*Fishing trawler (1937–39, 1969–70)
|Ship tonnage={{GRT|298}}, {{NRT|136}} |Ship displacement= |Ship tons burthen= |Ship length={{convert|119|ft|4|in|m|2|order=flip|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|24|ft|7|in|m|2|order=flip}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship depth={{convert|10|ft|6|in|m|2|order=flip|abbr=on}} |Ship hold depth= |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship ramps= |Ship ice class= |Ship power=Diesel engine, 94nhp |Ship propulsion=Single screw propeller |Ship sail plan= |Ship speed={{convert|10.5|kn|km/h}} |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship test depth= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity= |Ship troops= |Ship complement=23 (Gapeau) |Ship crew= |Ship time to activate= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=Unarmed (Gapeau) |Ship armour= |Ship armor= |Ship aircraft= |Ship aircraft facilities= |Ship notes= }} |
Gapeau was a French transport ship which was built as the German fishing trawler Johann Schulte in 1939. She was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. She was used as a minesweeper under the pennant numbers M 1406 and M 4417, and later as the Vorpostenboot V 625 Johann Schulte. She was sunk in 1945. Seized by the French post-war and entered service with the French Navy as Gapeau. Sold in 1969, she was scrapped in 1970.
Description
The ship {{convert|119|ft|4|in|m|2|order=flip|abbr=on}} long, with a beam of {{convert|24|ft|7|in|m|2|order=flip}}. She had a depth of {{convert|10|ft|6|in|m|2|order=flip|abbr=on}}. She was assessed at {{GRT|298}}, {{NRT|136}}. She was powered by a diesel engine, which had 8 cylinders of {{convert|11|in|cm|order=flip}} diameter by {{convert|17+11/16|in|cm|order=flip}} stroke. The engine was built by Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, Köln, Germany, and was rated at 94 nhp or 500 bhp.{{cite plimsoll |ship-name=Johann Schulte |lr-number=59535 |subtitle=C |guide=JOC-JOH |filename=40b0260.pdf |accessdate=11 April 2024 }}{{sfn|Roche|2005}} It drove a single screw which could propel the ship at {{convert|10.5|kn|km/h}}.{{sfn|Gröner|1993|p=254}}
History
Gapeau was built as yard number 130 by Schulte & Bruns, Emden, Germany.{{sfn|Gröner|1993|p=254}} She was launched as the fishing vessel Johann Schulte on 22 March 1939 and completed on 27 April. She was owned by the Großer Kürfurst Heringfischerei AG, Emden.{{sfn|Gröner|1993|p=255}} Her port of registry was Emden. She was allocated the Code Letters DGNI, and the fishing boat registration AE 104.{{sfn|Gröner|1993|p=255}}
On 7 January 1940, Johann Schulte was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine, serving with 14 Minensuchflotille as the minesweeper M 1406. On 22 March 1942, she was reallocated to 44 Minensuchflotille and her pennant number was changed to M 4417. On 1 January 1943, she was designated as a vorpostenboot. She was allocated to 6 Vorpostenflotille as V 625 Johann Schulte. She was sunk in 1945.{{sfn|Gröner|1993|p=255}}
Later in 1945, Johann Schulte was seized by the French at Saint-Nazaire.{{sfn|Roche|2005}} Her pennant number was changed to Na 80. She was repaired, entering service with the 28ème Division de Drageurs on 1 January 1946, based at Brest, Finistère. Her pennant number was later changed to B284 and, again, to A616.{{sfn|Roche|2005}} On 5 December 1947, she was taken out of service and rebuilt as a "regional transport", re-entering service named Gapeau,{{sfn|Gröner|1993|p=255}} the third ship of the French Navy bearing that name. Her complement was 22 crew and an officer. She was unarmed. She was initially based at Lorient, Morbihan, and later at Oran, Algeria, in the Mediterranean Sea, providing cabotage to the Demi-Brigade de Fusiliers-Marins, operating between Oran and Nemours, Algeria. Gapeau completed her 100th Oran–Nemours round-trip on 12 March 1959 and on 23 April was placed into ready reserve.{{sfn|Roche|2005}}
Gapeau was condemned on 20 November 1969 and allocated the disposal number Q 455 and then sold.{{sfn|Roche|2005}}{{sfn|Gröner|1993|p=255}} She was scrapped at Brest in 1970.{{sfn|Roche|2005}}{{cite web |url=http://www.netmarine.net/f/bat/gapeau/ancien.htm |title=Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de Gapeau |trans-title=The ships bearing the name of Gapeau |publisher=Netmarine |language=French |accessdate=11 April 2024 }}
References
{{reflist}}
=Sources=
- {{cite book |last1=Gröner |first1=Erich |title=Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815-1945 |trans-title=The German Warships 1815-1945 |volume=8/I: Flußfahrzeuge, Ujäger, Vorpostenboote, Hilfsminensucher, Küstenschutzverbände (Teil 1) |year=1993 |publisher=Bernard & Graefe |location=Koblenz |isbn=3-7637-4807-5 |language=de}}
- {{cite book |last=Roche|first=Jean-Michel|year=2005|title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours |isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6|oclc=165892922|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau |volume=II: 1870–2006|trans-title=Dictionary of French Warships from Colbert to the Present Day |language=fr}}
External links
- [http://www.netmarine.net/f/bat/gapeau/ancien01.jpg Black and white photograph of Gapeau]
{{Vorpostenboote Navbox}}
{{1945 shipwrecks}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gapeau}}
Category:Fishing vessels of Germany
Category:World War II merchant ships of Germany
Category:Auxiliary ships of the Kriegsmarine
Category:Maritime incidents in 1945