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Catalogue reference: ADM 137/3060/13
This record is about the Folios 113-118: CB number 01382 O.X.O, Copy number 315, German Special Service Ship... dating from 1917 Dec in the series Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Folios 113-118: CB number 01382 O.X.O, Copy number 315, German Special Service Ship 'Kehdingen' Interrogation of Survivors, December 1917.
Folio 114: Cover sheet, German Special Service Ship 'Kehdingen'.
Folio 115: Table of Contents.
Folio 115: Nominally a patrol vessel but intended as a decoy vessel for British submarines.
Folio 115: Kehdingen was built at Stettin in 1906 as a steam trawler. Armament of three 22-pr guns, one torpedo tube and depth charges.
Folio 116: On 15 November 1917 while anchored north west of Heligoland as a marker for minesweepers in misty conditions, sunk by a force of British cruisers and destroyers.
Folio 116: North Sea Patrol Flotilla based in Wilhelmshaven consists of two half-flotillas each of five groups of five or six trawlers - vessels listed. Three Special Service vessels attached to each half-flotilla participated in cable cutting. Minesweepers usually supported by four light cruisers and on occasions by battleships. Most 'M' Boats are armed with two 22-pdr with M.99 highest number seen. Torpedo Boats of 'A' Class armament details. Motor boats used for minesweeping in harbour approaches.
Folio 117: Konigsberg Class Light Cruisers armed with seven 5.9-inch guns and torpedo tubes. New Minelaying Cruisers to have four torpedo tubes. Reported that Raiders Ersatz Wolf and Yarrowdale were sunk. Battle Cruiser being built at Wilhelmshaven to be called Ludendorff. Details of G/7 torpedo.
Folio 118: Lists of prisoners and ratings killed.
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Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War
Interrogations of survivors of captured and sunk German submarines, etc. (Described...
Folios 113-118: CB number 01382 O.X.O, Copy number 315, German Special Service Ship...
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