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V1601 guard ship (1940/1944)

V1601 1944

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Lindormen V1601 147 Orlogsvaerftet, Kopenhagen, Denmark 10.1939 30.3.1940 11.1940 // 11.1944 surrendered 5.1945, to Denmark 5.1945 (Lindormen)

 

Displacement standard, t

604

Displacement full, t

645

Length, m

50.9 wl 53.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.80

Draught, m

2.47

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

oil 35
Endurance, nm(kts) 663(13.9)

Armament

unknown

as in Danish Navy: 2 x 1 - 75/55 KM12, 3x1 - 20/60 Madsen, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 138 mines

Complement 66

Project history: Ex-Danish minelayer was scuttled by own crew 29.8.1943 at Holmen, salvaged by Germans and commissioned one year later as guard ship.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: In 1945 Lindormen was returned to Denmark and again commissioned as minelayer.

Lindormen

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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