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WESTFALEN catapult vessel (1906/1940)

Westfalen 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Westfalen   208 Tecklenborg, Geestemünde   14.11.1905 30.12.1906 // 1940 sunk 7.9.1944

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

10550

Length, m

128.5

Breadth, m

16.1

Draught, m

8.52

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VQE, 4 boilers

Power, h. p.

2750

Max speed, kts

11.5

Fuel, t

coal

Armament

2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 1 14t catapult, seaplane (Do 18)

Complement

54

 

Project history: Ex-cargo vessel of Nord-Deutsche Lloyd, completed in 1906. Converted to catapult vessel for Deutsche Lűfthansa in 1933. Seaplanes were handled by 15t crane.

Modernizations: none.

Naval service: Westfalen was sunk by mine 7.9.1944 in Skagerrak.

 

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