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VOLKSMARINE (GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC)

COASTAL FORCES

183/1 fast attack craft (torpedo) (1957-1960)

Julius Adler 1965

Names

S-61, later- 803/822 183/1, 1.1960- Julius Adler

S-62, later- 802/821 183/2, 1.1960- Etkar André

S-63, later- 805/842 183/3, 1.1960- Rudolf Breitscheid

S-64, later- 806/824 183/4, 1.1960- Rudi Arndt

S-65, later- 808/825 183/5, 1.1960- Herbert Balzer

S-66, later- 809/844 183/6, 1.1960-  Willi Bänsch

S-67, later- 807/827 183/7, 1.1960- Bernhard Bästlein

S-68, later 801/826 183/8, 1.1960- Artur Becker

S-69, later 804/841 183/9, 1.1960- Fritz Behn

102, later- 822/862 183/10, 1.1960- Hans Beimler, 11.1967- G-81

105, later- 823/863 183/11, 1.1960- Hans Coppie

825/846 183/12, 1.1960- Hanne Günther

826/866 183/13, 1.1960- Fritz Heckert

109, later- 828/845 183/14, 1.1960- Adam Kuckhoff

814/821 183/15, 1.1960- Arvid Harnack

815/822 183/16, 1.1960- Bruno Kühn

816/824 183/17, 1.1960- Erich Kuttner

817/823 183/18, 1.1960- Heinz Kapelle

818/825 183/19, 1.1960- Fritz Lesch

819/824 183/20, 1.1960- Wilhelm Leuschner

811/825 183/21, 1.1960- Fritz Riedel

821/829 183/22, 1.1960- Josef Römer

104, later- 824/843 183/23, 1.1960- Max Roscher, 10.1968- G-83

827/863 183/24, 1.1960- Willi Sachse, later- Fiete Schulze

812/826 183/25, 1.1960- Anton Saefkow

813/864 183/26, 1.1960- Ernst Schneller

829/866 183/27, 1.1960- Wolfgang Thies

Builders

5 Yd, Leningrad, USSR: 183/1-183/27

Commissioned

10.1957: 183/1-183/9

10.1958: 183/10-183/14

9.1960: 183/15-183/27

Losses

183/6 Willi Bänsch (31.8.1968)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1967: 183/4, 183/5, 183/8, 183/11, 183/13

1968: 183/1, 183/12, 183/14

1969: 183/2, 183/3, 183/7, 183/9, 183/17, 183/19, 183/22, 183/24, 183/26, 183/27

1970: 183/15, 183/16, 183/18, 183/20, 183/21, 183/25

1973: G-81, G-83

 

 

Displacement standard, t

57

Displacement full, t

67

Length, m

25.5

Breadth, m

6.18

Draught, m

1.24

No of shafts

4

Machinery

4 M-50FTK diesels

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

43

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

1000(14)

Armament

2 x 2 - 25/80 2M-3M, 2 x 1 - 533 TT or 18 mines, 8 DC

Sensors

Zarnitsa radar

Complement

14

Project history: Former Soviet Project 183 FAC (torpedo).

Modernizations: 1967-1968, G-81, G-83 (as Board Guard patrol craft): - 2 x 1 - 533 TT

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2016