"Goya" ( German: Goya ) - a military ship built at the Akers Mekanika Verksted shipyard in Oslo , Norway , launched on April 4, 1940 . The ship was confiscated by the Germans after the occupation of Norway by Germany . At first it was used as a conditional target for training crews of German submarines . Later, the ship participated in the evacuation of the sea from the advancing Red Army .
| Goya | |
|---|---|
| Goya | |
 Goya with camouflage. Danzig Bay, 1945 | |
| Flag |  Third Reich |
| Class and type of vessel | Transport ship |
| Manufacturer | Akers Oslo |
| Launched | April 4, 1940 |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | Torpedo April 16, 1945 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 5230 b.t. |
| Length | 70 m. |
| Width | 17.4 m. |
| Engines | Four diesel engines, Burmeister & Wain |
| Power | 5589 kW (7600 HP) |
| Speed | 18 knots |
The ship "Goya" managed to make four trips, in which 19 785 people were evacuated. On the night of April 16, 1945, the fifth cruise ship was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine L-3 , after which it sank in the Baltic Sea ; more than 6900 people died in the crash.
Content
- 1 fifth trip
- 2 See also
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Fifth Campaign
April, 4 1945 the ship Goya stood in Danzig Bay , waiting for the loading of military and refugees. The bay was under constant shelling by Soviet artillery, one of the shells hit the Goya, easily injuring the captain of the ship Plünnecke ( German: Plünnecke ).
In addition to civilian and wounded servicemen, on board were 200 soldiers of the 25th Tank Regiment of the Wehrmacht.
At 19:00 on April 16, the convoy, consisting of three vessels: the Goya, the Kronenfels steamboat ( German Kronenfels , built in 1944, 2834 gt ) and the Egir sea tug ( German Ägir ), left the Danzig harbor escorted by two minesweepers M-256 and M-328 to the city of Swinemuende .
At this time, at the exit of the Danzig Bay, waiting for the German ships, there was a Soviet submarine L-3 under the command of Vladimir Konovalov . The largest convoy vessel was chosen for the attack. Around 23:00 the convoy’s route was changed, the convoy headed to the city of Copenhagen .
In order to catch up with the Goya, the Soviet submarine had to go on the diesels above the surface (in the underwater position the electric motors could not reach the required speed). L-3 caught up with the Goya and at 23:52 successfully torpedoed the ship with two torpedoes. The Goya sank seven minutes after the torpedo attack, and from 6,000 to 7,000 people died, the exact number of people on board remained unknown. Escort ships managed to save 157 people; during the day, another 28 ships were found alive by other ships.
Such a fast immersion of the ship under water is explained by the fact that the Goya was not a passenger ship and did not have bulkheads between the compartments, as was prescribed for passenger ships.
On July 8, 1945, for the exemplary performance of command missions, personal courage and heroism shown in battles with Nazi invaders, and guards, Captain 3rd rank Konovalov Vladimir Konstantinovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.
The original L-3 cabin with a 45-mm gun was installed in Moscow on Poklonnaya Hill in the Museum of Military Equipment.
The exact site of the shipwreck was established on August 26, 2002 by Polish divers.
See also
- Hell ships
Literature
- Fritz Brustat-Naval: Unternehmen Rettung , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0829-3 (German)
- Ernst Fredmann: Sie kamen übers Meer - Die größte Rettungsaktion der Geschichte , Pfälzische Verlagsges., ISBN 3-88527-040-4 (German)
- Heinz Schön: Ostsee '45 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-87943-856-0 (German)
- Hans Scheufler, Wilhelm Tike: March to Berlin 1944-45 , Eksmo, Moscow 2005 ISBN 5-699-13028-4 , p . 95 (Russian)