Bielefeld (1898)

Later names
SMS Sperrbrecher 3 (1914)
SMS Sperrbrecher 5 (1915)
SMS Bielefeld (1915)
Kobun Maru (1920)

Builder:
Flensburger Schiffsbau Gesellschaft
Flensburg, Germany
Ordered:
N/A
Keel Laid:
N/A
Year Built:
1898
Launched:
July 16, 1989
Type:
Freighter
Completed:
August 1898
Fate:
Sunk in storm Dec. 29, 1928.

Location: East China Sea, 240 miles west of Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan.

Crew rescued.
Notes:
Used as a minesweeper by the German navy during the Great War.
June 22, 1915 while grounded was torpedoed by HMS D-4.
1920 sold to the Japanese Government and renamed Kobun Maru.


Builder's Data
Page published Nov. 17, 2013