On 13 August 1944, she was sunk off Langeoog by Bristol Beaufighter aircraft of 254 Squadron, Royal Air Force.

[1] She was powered by a triple expansion steam engine driving a single screw propeller via a low pressure turbine, double reduction gearing and a hydraulic coupling.

The engine, rated at 93nhp, was built by the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau, AG Weser, Bremen.

[2] August Wriedt was built as yard number 552 in 1930 by Schiffswerft J. Frerichs & Co, Einswarden as a fishing trawler for the Nordsee Deutsche Hochseefischerei.

[1][6] On 14 March 1940, she found part of a torpedo from U-54, which had been missing since 20 February, presumed to have been sunk by a mine with the loss of all 41 of her crew.