Daily Event for October 1, 2009

Even though the war had started one month earlier it took until October 1, 1939 before Germany lost its first warship. The old minesweeper M-85, which had been built in 1918 was sunk by a mine laid by the Polish submarine Zbik in Danzig Bay. Ironically by that time Zbik was already out of the war, the boat was interned in Sweden on Sept. 25, 1939 following her only mission in the Second World War, that mission was to lay mines in the Gulf of Gdansk. Twenty-five of the crew of M-85 went down with the ship.
© 2009 Michael W. Pocock
MaritimeQuest.com



Gedenktafel
In Erinnerung an die gefallenen Besatzungsmitglieder der Minensucher M-85
"In the memory of the fallen crewmen of the Minesweeper M-85"

Name
Rate
Angelkorte, Heinrich
Unknown
Böttcher, Max
Unknown
Dembinski, Rudolf
Unknown
Engelbrecht, Ernst
Unknown
Grugelke, Günter
Maat
Hahn, Wilhelm
Maat
 
Kirch, Johann-Nikolaus
Maat
Kraft, Fritz
Obergefreiter
 
Kreienkamp, Theodor
Unknown
Krull, Adolf
Maschinenmaat
 
Kummerow, Max
Unknown
 
Moser, Heinrich
Unknown
 
Oehmen, Johann
Unknown
 
Pape, Johannes
Unknown
 
Patock, Alfred
Unknown
 
Pauluhn, Albert
Unknown
 
Rackow, Heinz
Matrose
Schmidt, Gerhard
Matrose
Schmidt, Gerhard
Obergefreiter
Schröder, Alfred
Maat
 
Sedlack, Gustav
Unknown
 
Seide, Hermann
Unknown
 
Tunger, Max
Unknown
 
Wicik, Richard
Unknown
 
Wilms, Wilhelm
Unknown
       
Additional information for this list was provided by Christian Wichmann.
If you can provide any clarification on this list please email the webmaster. Note that sources indicate
that only 24 men were lost in M-85, but two men with the same name were lost, this may account for
the difference in numbers.



German minesweepers of the same class.






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