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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

AIRCRAFT CARRYING SHIPS

"Rescue vessel A" seaplane tender

"A"

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
A   758 Norderwerft Köser & Meyer, Hamburg 1943 --- --- cancelled 1944

 

Displacement standard, t

900

Displacement full, t

1165

Length, m

71.4

Breadth, m

10.2

Draught, m

3.84

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 MAN diesels

Power, h. p.

4400

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

diesel oil 96

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(16)

Armament

3 seaplanes

Complement

32

 

Project history: "Seenotschiff A" would been rescue vessel with developed aircraft facility. Order was given out in 1943 but in mid-1944 building was suspended and later that year cancelled.

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