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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.
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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 |
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Angelkorte, Heinrich |
Unknown |
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Böttcher, Max |
Unknown |
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Dembinski, Rudolf |
Unknown |
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Engelbrecht, Ernst |
Unknown |
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Grugelke, Günter |
Maat |
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Hahn, Wilhelm |
Maat |
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Kirch, Johann-Nikolaus |
Maat |
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Kraft, Fritz |
Obergefreiter |
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Kreienkamp, Theodor |
Unknown |
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Krull, Adolf |
Maschinenmaat |
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Kummerow, Max |
Unknown |
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Moser, Heinrich |
Unknown |
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Oehmen, Johann |
Unknown |
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Pape, Johannes |
Unknown |
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Patock, Alfred |
Unknown |
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Pauluhn, Albert |
Unknown |
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Rackow, Heinz |
Matrose |
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Schmidt, Gerhard |
Matrose |
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Schmidt, Gerhard |
Obergefreiter |
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Schröder, Alfred |
Maat |
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Sedlack, Gustav |
Unknown |
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Seide, Hermann |
Unknown |
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Tunger, Max |
Unknown |
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Wicik, Richard |
Unknown |
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Wilms, Wilhelm |
Unknown |
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Additional information for this list was provided by
Christian Wichmann. |
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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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