Grille 1940
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Grille | 500 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 17.7.1934 | 15.12.1934 | 20.5.1935 | minelayer 9.1939, command ship 8.1942, surrendered 5.1945, to United Kingdom 1945, sold mercantile 1946 |
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Displacement standard, t |
2560 |
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Displacement full, t |
3430 |
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Length, m |
115.0 pp 135.1 oa 142.9 max |
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Breadth, m |
13.5 |
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Draught, m |
3.80 normal 4.20 max |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 sets Blohm & Voss geared steam turbines, 4 Benson boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
22000 |
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Max speed, kts |
26 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 1000 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 9500(19) |
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Armament |
3 x 1 - 128/42 SK C/34, 2 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30 |
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Complement |
257 |
Project history: Built as government yacht, officially was classified as aviso, also was used as HQ, training and target ship (in the latter case for aviation torpedoes trials). Grille had easily recognised "yacht" outline profile with bowsprit and experimental machinery: she was the first ship with high-pressure boilers of Benson design (80atm). With war beginning Grille was converted to auxiliary minelayer, but then used mainly as a command ship.
Modernizations: 9.1939: - 3 x 1 - 128/42; + 3 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 4 x 1 - 20/65 C/30, 280 mines
8/1942: - mine capacity
Naval service: On reparations Grille was transferred to United Kingdom.
Grille as yacht
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