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Saturday, 15 November 2025

German research-survey vessel Meteor 1914-1945 (1968)

Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Laud down at Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig, Germany on 26 February 1914, launched in January 1915, was to be complered as a gunboat but not completed, after the First World War towed to Reichswerft, Wilhelmshaven, Germany and converted into a research-survey vessel, commissioned on 15 November 1924, ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 and in or after 1968 broken up’possible after 1968 for some years used as barracks ship. Dimensions 71.1 x 10.2 x 4.00 metres and tonnage 1,504 tons. 

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