The German
icebreaker ''Hindenburg'' was built by
Stettiner Oderwerke
Oderwerke or Stettiner Oderwerke was a German shipbuilding company, located in Stettin.
History
Oderwerke was founded on January 28, 1903 and built 154 ships prior to World War I.
During World War II Oderwerke built two German Type VII submarin ...
at
Stettin-Grabow in 1915 for the Cooperative Merchants' Guild of Stettin (german: Koop. Kaufmannschaft Stettin). The ship was launched on 15 December 1915 but not completed until 23 December 1916. During the
Invasion of Ã…land
The Invasion of Ã…land was a 1918 military campaign of World War I in Ã…land, Finland. The islands, still hosting Soviet Russian troops, were first invaded by Sweden in late February and then by the German Empire in early March. The conflict w ...
in February 1918, the ''Hindenburg'' was part of ''Transportflotte I'' of the ''Sonderverband Ostsee''. The ''Hindenburg'' struck a
mine
Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:
Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
...
off
Eckerö
Eckerö is a municipalities of Åland, municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory under Finland, Finnish sovereignty. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population density is
.
The municip ...
,
Ã…land
Ã…land ( fi, Ahvenanmaa: ; ; ) is an Federacy, autonomous and Demilitarized zone, demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. It is the smallest region of Finland by area and population, with a size of 1 ...
on 9 March 1918 and sunk at . Three crew members died in the event.:The wreck was found 1995 at 50 meters by diveinstructor Richard Johansson from Maltaproffsen and his crew from Ã…lands Dykcenter and FF-Dyk.
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Ships built in Stettin
1915 ships
Hindenburg
Ships sunk by mines
World War I shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea
Maritime incidents in 1918
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