'Wiking' (v) was the German alternative designation for the 'Krimhilde-Bewegung' evacuation of the Axis forces from the Taman lodgement at the western end of the Kuban peninsula (8/10 October 1943).

The last stage of the operation saw the westward movement of the 240 craft used in the evacuation in four major convoys from the Kerch Strait to Sevastopol on the west coast of Crimea. The craft had the close escort of the motor minesweepers of Kapitänleutnant Helmut Klassmann’s 3^rd Räumboots-Flottille and Fregattenkapitän Paul Schröder’s 30^th Räumboots-Flottille, with seaward protection provided by the craft of Korvettenkapitän Hermann Büchting’s 1^st Schnellboots-Flottille. The operation suffered the loss of only one engineer assault boat to air attack and one ferry barge to submarine attack.