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KAISERLICHE MARINE / KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

ESCORTS

MAX KOCHEN patrols (1917-1918)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Max Kochen   270 Wichhorst, Hamburg   15.3.1917 5.1917 sold 11.1918
Hamburg 5.1941- V1608 271 Wichhorst, Hamburg   13.9.1917 11.1917 sold 5.1919, patrol 5.1941, sunk 14.9.1944
Dr. Hellfrich, 10.1939- Crefeld 1941- JK02, 10.1943- Vs802 272 Wichhorst, Hamburg   6.12.1917 3.1918 completed as TS, sold 3.1919, patrol 10.1939, surrendered 5.1945, sold
Von Jonquieres   273 Wichhorst, Hamburg   20.4.1918 5.1918 foundered 20.9.1918
Prinz Sigismund   274 Wichhorst, Hamburg   --- --- BU incomplete or completed mercantile

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

495

Length, m

36.4

Breadth, m

7.26

Draught, m

3.11

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

400

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal 170

Endurance, nm(kts) 5100(11)

Armament

1 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89 or 88/32 SK L/35 C/01 or 88/27 TK L/30 C/08

Complement 24 - 31

Project history: Fishery trawlers, purchased by Navy during building and commissioned as auxiliary patrols.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Von Jonquieres capsized during a storm 20.9.1918 off Helgoland.

    V1608 Hamburg was sunk by Allied aircraft 14.9.1944 off Kristiansand.

 

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