Este 1944
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Este | UJ1717 | 683 | v. d. Giessen, Krimpen | 26.6.1943 | 9.1944 | surrendered 5.1945, sold 1948 | |
Fock & Hubert | UJ1229 | 684 | v. d. Giessen, Krimpen | 26.6.1943 | 9.1944 | surrendered 5.1945, sold 1948 | |
Kurt Ramien (ex-Hinrich Wesselhöft) | 685 | v. d. Giessen, Krimpen | 16.6.1943 | 9.1944 | completed as trial ship, sunk 4.4.1945 | ||
Katzbach (ex-H. V. Behrens) | 686 | v. d. Giessen, Krimpen | 16.6.1943 | 6.1944 | completed as trial ships, sunk 18.9.1944 | ||
Gauleiter Telschow | UJ1228 | 470 | N. V. de Merwede, Hardinxveld / Seebeck | 30.6.1943 | 1.1946 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Thetis | UJ1718 | 471 | N. V. de Merwede, Hardinxveld / Seebeck | 5.1944 | 12.1947 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Berlebek (ex-Rotersand) | WBS7 (ex-V1549) | 472 | N. V. de Merwede, Hardinxveld | 5.1944 | 7.1944 | surrendered 5.1945, sold 2.1946 | |
Hoheweg | WBS5, 1945- V1549 | 473 | N. V. de Merwede, Hardinxveld | 8.1944 | 1947 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Wangerooge | UJ1214 | 102 | Nederlandsche Dok Mij., Amsterdam / Nobiskrug | 24.6.1944 | 8.1945 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Julius Pickenpack | UJ1119 | 103 | Nederlandsche Dok Mij., Amsterdam | 9.1944 | 11.1944 | sunk 6.3.1945 or 5.5.1945 | |
Gotland | UJ1118 | 104 | Nederlandsche Dok Mij., Amsterdam | 1944 | 1948 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Gebrüder Kähler | V1548 | 105 | Nederlandsche Dok Mij., Amsterdam | 5.1944 | 3.1946 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Hermann Krone | WBS45 | 106 | Nederlandsche Dok Mij., Amsterdam | 23.3.1946 | 11.1948 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Lüneburg | 251 | Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij. | 18.3.1944 | 7.1946 // --- | completed mercantile | ||
Dortmund | V1300 | 252 | Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij. | 8.8.1944 | 1945 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Teutoburger Wald | WBS12 | 253 | Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij. | 4.5.1944 | 1945 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Koblenz | 254 | Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij. | 23.12.1944 | 2.1948 // --- | completed mercantile | ||
Antares | UJ1115 | 227 | Koninklijke Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen / Nordseewerke | 4.2.1944 | 4.1945 | surrendered 5.1945, sold 8.1945 | |
Potsdam | UJ1230 | 228 | Koninklijke Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen | 9.2.1944 | 6.1947 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Gleiwitz | V2016 | 229 | Koninklijke Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen | 24.2.1944 | 1948 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Rügen | 230 | Koninklijke Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen | 23.2.1944 | 1948 // --- | completed mercantile | ||
Straßburg | 231/610 | N. V. de Noord, Alblasserdam | --- | --- | BU incomplete | ||
Breslau | 232/611 | N. V. de Noord, Alblasserdam | --- | --- | BU incomplete | ||
Schleswig | 233/241 | Haan & Oerlemans, Heusden | --- | --- | BU incomplete | ||
Aldebaran | 234/565 | de Klop, Sliedrecht | --- | --- | BU incomplete | ||
Friedrich Müller | 235/503 | N. V. de Merwede, Hardinxveld | --- | --- | BU incomplete | ||
Perseus | 236/612 | N. V. de Noord, Alblasserdam | --- | --- | BU incomplete | ||
Lofoten | UJ1434 | 567 | P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam | 18.9.1943 | 8.1944 | surrendered 5.1945, sold 1948 | |
Skolpenbank | UJ1227 | 568 | P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam / Unterweser / Germaniawerft | 23.12.1943 | 12.1947 // --- | completed mercantile | |
Malangen | UJ1435 | 569 | P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam | 19.10.1943 | 9.1944 | sunk 24.3.1945 | |
Externsteine (ex-Manheim) | WBS11 | 570 | P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam | 5.5.1944 | 7.1944 | captured by USA 16.10.1944 (trial ship Eastbreeze) | |
Weimar | 571 | P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam | --- | --- | BU incomplete | ||
München | 572 | P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam | --- | --- | BU incomplete |
Displacement standard, t |
|
Displacement full, t |
1200 |
Length, m |
50.2 wl 56.5 oa |
Breadth, m |
9.16 |
Draught, m |
4.19 |
No of shafts |
1 |
Machinery |
1 VTE with exhaust steam turbine, 1 boiler |
Power, h. p. |
750 |
Max speed, kts |
12 |
Fuel, t |
coal 148 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 15/70, 2 DCR |
Complement |
Project history: Auxiliary submarine chasers based on trawler hulls ordered by Kriegsmarine to Dutch shipbuilders.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: UJ1119 was sunk by Allied aircraft at Sassnitz 6.3. or 5.5.1945. UJ1435 was sunk by rockets of Allied aircraft 24.3.1945 off Egersund. Externsteine was captured by USN icebreaker Eastwind and renamed Eastbreeze. She served as trial ship IX205 Callao till 1950.
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