Bussard 1942
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Bussard | SP21 | 1500 | Schichau, Königsberg | 1940 | 1940 | 1.5.1942 | surrendered 5.1945, to USA 2.1946 |
| Falke | SP22 | 1502 | Schichau, Königsberg | 1940 | 29.7.1940 | 22.11.1942 | surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 1946 (Аэронавт [Aeronavt]) |
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Displacement standard, t |
2040 |
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Displacement full, t |
|
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Length, m |
98.3 |
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Breadth, m |
14.0 |
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Draught, m |
2.20 |
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No of shafts |
2 Voith-Schneider propellers |
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Machinery |
2 KHD diesels |
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Power, h. p. |
1800 |
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Max speed, kts |
12 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 230 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 5200(12) |
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Armament |
Bussard: 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 1 20t catapult, seaplane (Do 24, BV 138) Falke: 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 1 20t catapult, seaplane (Do 24, BV 138) |
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Complement |
54 |
Project history: Vessels with heavy catapults for launching of heavy flying boats (Do 15, Do 18). Naval analogues of merchant catapult vessels servicing transatlantic lines of Lufthansa. For lifting of aircrafts from water on a catapult they were arranged by 20t cranes.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: On reparations Falke was transferred to the USSR as Aeronavt and Bussard to the USA, in 1948 she was is sold to the Netherlands and converted to dredger.
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