Kriemhild 1940
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Kriemhild | 810 | Schiffswerft Linz | 1938 | 15.9.1939 | 4.1940 | accommodation ship 6.1941 - 9.1943, captured by USA 8.5.1945 (Oregon) | |
Brunnhild | 811 | Schiffswerft Linz | 1938 | 15.10.1939 | 6.1940 | repair ship 1943, captured by USA 5.1945 (Washington) | |
Uta | 812 | Schiffswerft Linz | 1938 | 15.12.1939 | 8.1940 | repair ship 7.1943, sunk 1.4.1945 |
Displacement standard, t |
535 |
Displacement full, t |
693 |
Length, m |
66.2 wl 67.0 oa |
Breadth, m |
9.50 |
Draught, m |
1.21 normal 1.43 deep load |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 Deutz diesels |
Power, h. p. |
880 |
Max speed, kts |
10.8 |
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 35 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armour |
2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 7.9/79 |
Military load | 220 t of cargo |
Complement |
32 + 74 passengers |
Project history: Command ships and river launch depot ships. They were built in Linz on two-decked cargo-passenger motor-vessel type. Ships had accommodations for 74 passengers and could carry 220t of various cargo.
Modernizations: 1.1944, all: - 2 x 1 - 20/65, 2 x 1 - 7.9/90; + 4 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30
1945, all: - 4 x 1 - 37/80; + 3 x 1 - 40/56 FlaK 28, 8 x 1 - 12.7/94 (?), 1 x 1 - 81/12 mortar.
Naval service: Uta was sunk 1.4.1945 by aircraft on Danube, later salvaged and repaired by Russians as Ангара [Angara]. Remaining ships were transferred on reparations to the USA.
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