Drache 1941
Drache 1943
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Drache (ex-Çì༠[Zmaj]) | 118 | Deutsche Werft, Hamburg | 1928 | 22.6.1929 | 20.8.1930 // 7.8.1941 | personnel transport 12.1941, minelayer 11.1942, sunk 22.9.1944 |
Displacement standard, t |
1870 |
Displacement full, t |
2084 |
Length, m |
76.5 pp 83.0 oa |
Breadth, m |
12.7 |
Draught, m |
3.51 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 MAN diesels |
Power, h. p. |
3260 |
Max speed, kts |
15 |
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 140 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 4000(15) |
Armament |
2 x 1 - 84/55 Škoda M.29, 2 x 2 - 40/67 Škoda, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 DCR (12), 2 seaplanes (He 60, He 114, Ar 196, Ar 95) |
Complement |
145 |
Project history: Former Yugoslavian seaplane tender Zmaj, 17.4.1941 captured at Split and commissioned by Germans 7.8.1941 as Drache. Seplanes were handled by 6.5t crane.
In April-August, 1942 in Trieste she was converted to minelayer: lattice farm with crane was removed, new armament was fitted, landing platform (20x5m) for helicopter Flettner Fl 282 was arranged, ship was commissioned again 26.11.1942.
Modernizations: 11.1942: was converted to minelayer with armament consisted of 2 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 2 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 1 x 1 - 15/84, 120 - 240 mines, 1 Fl 282 helicopter1943: - 2 x 1 - 105/42, 1 x 1 - 37/80; + 2 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, 2 x 4 - 20/65 C/38
Naval service: Drache operated in Aegean and Adriatic seas, 29.9.1944 she was sunk by British diving bombers in Aegean sea at Samos.
Drache
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