Fates of kriegsmarine resupply ships

[GoldenRivet]

Corrientes, Bessel, max albrecht, Thalia

Some interned, others not

Either way at some point these ships are no longer available for resupply support. Did they exhaust their stores, were they discovered by the allies and attacked, did they live out their days of WW2 and resume merchant services?

Ultimately, what was the fate of these ships and their crews? I've searched high and low and cannot seem to locate an answer

[Sailor Steve]

Here's a start:
http://www.uboatarchive.net/SupplyShipsINT.htm

[DvdW]

What kind of ships do you exactly mean? You mean Tenders or Auxiliary Ships? Here is a nice site with lots of info about the history and end of these kind of ships: http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmari...ips/index.html

[GoldenRivet]

im more specifically referring to the ships that were interned in neutral ports. like Thalia for example.

i suppose the allies would not have just plowed right into a neutral port with destroyers and sank her.

she just fell silent on a specific date in GWX no longer available for resupply operations?

was she attacked and sank? did the ship just run out of the goods?

i guess im asking what is the reason that these ships just stop becoming available

[Mittelwaechter]

Thalia: August 45 handed in to England - renamed to "Empire Consett", 1946 adjudicated to Russia - renamed to "Akademik Karpinski".

Bessel: 1945 handed in to England (by Spain), renamed to "Empire Coniston", 1947 adjudicated to Denmark - renamed to "Brigitte Skou".

Max Albrecht: after Spanish internation 1945 delivered to England, new name "Empire Tagralia", later changed to "Repton".

Corrientes: forced sale to Spain in september 1942, new name "Monte Moncago"

Charlotte Schliemann: February 1944 sunk by British cruiser "Relentless" in Indian Ocean.

Brake: March 1944 sunk by British ships in Indian Ocean.

Bogota: May 1945 confiscated by Japan, returned to Germany 1950, served again as trader.

Quito: sold to Japan 1942, renamed to "Teishu Maru", sunk by American submarine 1945 .

Friedrich Breme: supply vessel for "Bismarck", scuttled June 1941 after beeing stopped by British cruiser "Sheffield".

(Source: Guenther Steinweg, Die deutsche Handelsflotte im zweiten Weltkrieg, Aufgaben und Schicksal, http://www.amazon.de/deutsche-Handel.../dp/3509000358)

You may want to google or wikipedia the vessels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Bessel

[GoldenRivet]

interesting... thanks guys

[HW3]

i guess im asking what is the reason that these ships just stop becoming available

While I have no proof, My understanding is that the allies put diplomatic pressure on Spain to shutdown the ships interned in their ports. Spain then ordered them to surrender control of the ships or leave port. Knowing the allies were waiting for them outside of port, they surrendered control of their ships. Like I said, I have no proof of this, it is just one of those things that I think I remember reading somewhere.