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icebreaker An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships. Although the term usually refers to ice-breaking ships, it may also refer to smaller ...
''Hindenburg'' was built by Stettiner Oderwerke 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 Åland The Invasion of Åland was a 1918 military campaign of World War I in Åland, 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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Åland Åland ( 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 Ålands Dykcenter and FF-Dyk.


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;Notes ;Bibliography * Ships built in Stettin 1915 ships Hindenburg Ships sunk by mines World War I shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea Maritime incidents in 1918 {{Germany-mil-ship-stub