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KRIEMHILD river guard ships / tenders (1940)

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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