Light Cruiser Karlsruhe

Bordfliegerkommando 1/196 and 5/196 on the light cruiser Karlsruhe

Aircraft facilities and on-board accommodation:

Capacity: The ship can take 2 aircraft on board.

Accommodation: 1. Airplane on the catapult. The 2nd board aircraft can be dismantled and carried below deck.

Centrifugal device: 1x compressed air operated DWK (type FL 22) catapult of 14 m length, 360 ° swiveling (starting area is 70 ° to 100 ° and 255 ° to 285 °),amidships, between the chimneys on a 3.50 m high special structure, installation in Summer 1935.

Takeover facility: 1x lattice crane (replaced by a luffing crane in 1938), port side next to the rear chimney.

 

  'WESERÜBUNG' (04/09/40)

Used aircraft:
Trips abroad, as far as can be proven, company 'WESERÜBUNG' (04/09/40):
Code:	Aircraft type:	WNr:	Period:	Remarks:
6W?N	He 60	-	December 01, 1939 - December 12, 1939	Trials in Kiel.
T3FH	Ar. 196 A2	1960049	04/07/1940 - 04/09/1940	Total loss, ship badly damaged as a result of torpedo hit, sunk by own T-boat on command..

 

Luftwaffe crews aboard Karlsruhe

Position:	Rank/Name:	On board:	From board:	Remarks:
1. Air officer / observer	Obltn. (M) Hermann Hesse	04/07/1940	04/10/1940	Assigned back to their staffel in Wilhelmshaven.
Pilot	Ltn. (M) Martin Luther	04/07/1940	04/10/1940	Assigned back to their staffel in Wilhelmshaven.
Embarked technical maintenance personnel
I. Board attendant	Ob.Fr. Nimmler	04/07/1940	04/10/1940	Assigned back to their staffel in Wilhelmshaven.
II. Board attendant	Ob.Fr. cook	04/07/1940	04/10/1940	Assigned back to their staffel in Wilhelmshaven.
Maste r-at-Arms	Ob.Fr. Hennecke	04/07/1940	04/10/1940	Assigned back to their staffel in Wilhelmshaven.
Funkwart	Frozen Walter	04/07/1940	04/10/1940	Assigned back to their staffel in Wilhelmshaven.
04/09/1940 - ship badly damaged as a result of torpedo hit, sunk by own T-boat on command.