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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

ESCORTS

BRIS patrols (1941-1942)

V2002 1945

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bris (ex-ÐÒ-25 Áðèç [RT-25 Briz]) V315 746 Norderwerft Köser & Meyer, Hamburg   14.6.1941 2.1942 collision 12.3.1945
Planeta (ex-ÐÒ-27 Ïëàíåòà [RT-27 Planeta]) V714 747 Norderwerft Köser & Meyer, Hamburg   6.1941 12.1941 sunk 23.8.1944
Bering (ex-Ehrensberger, ex-ÐÒ-29 Áåðèíã [RT-29 Bering]) V808 748 Norderwerft Köser & Meyer, Hamburg   14.8.1941 4.1942 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 1946
Severyanka (ex-Christian Wendig, ex-ÐÒ-31 Ñåâåðÿíêà [RT-31 Severyanka]) V1111 749 Norderwerft Köser & Meyer, Hamburg   25.11.1941 6.1942 damaged 21.7.1944, never repaired
Uran (ex-Nordlicht, ex-ÐÒ-33 Óðàí [RT-33 Uran]) V1313, 1.1945- V2002 750 Norderwerft Köser & Meyer, Hamburg   8.4.1942 9.1942 surrendered 5.1945, sold 6.1947

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

1250

Length, m

53.5 wl 61.0 oa

Breadth, m

9.00

Draught, m

4.10 normal 4.50 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE with exhaust steam turbine, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

800

Max speed, kts

11.5

Fuel, t

coal 152

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/33 SK C/34, 2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 4 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 6 DCT (40), 1 flamethrower

Complement

66

Project history: Fishery trawlers, ordered to German shipbuilders by Soviet Union and purchased by Navy during building and commissioned as auxiliary patrols.

Modernizations: 1944, all: - 2 x 1 - 20/65; + 2 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 6 DCR, FuMO 61 radar, GHG hydrophone

Naval service: V315 sunk as result of collision with s/s Hendrik Fisser 12.3.1945 N off Rixhöft. V714 was sunk by Allied coastal guns 23.8.1944 off Audierne. V1111 was badly damaged by Allied aircraft 21.7.1944 in Jade mouth and stricken.

 

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