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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

COASTAL FORCES

KFK1 motor patrol boat (1943)

Names

Such 1 KFK1, 3.1943- M3872, 11.1944- V5502

Builders

Eckmann, Hamburg: Such 1

Commissioned

3/1943: Such 1

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

surrendered 5.1945: KFK1

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

23 BRT

Length, m

12.8

Breadth, m

4.50

Draught, m

1.90

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.9/79 or 1 x 1 - 20/65

Complement

 

Project history: First attempt to build small ASW/patrol/minesweeping ship on the basis of fishing drifter.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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