"SACHSENWALD"-CLASS (MINE
TRANSPORTS)
Builders: Blohm and Voss, Hamburg.
Commisioned: 20/8 1969
Displacement, tons: 3 380 full load
Dimensions, feet (metres): 363'8" x 45'6" 12'5"
(110,90 x 13,90 x 3,80)
Guns:
4—40 mm (2 twin mountings)
Mines:
Laying capacity
Main engines:
2 MTU diesels; 2 shafts; 6 200 hp = 17
knots
Range, miles:
3 500.
Complement:
62
Built as mine transports.
Laid down on 1 August 1966 and 9 May 1966.
Launched on 10 December 1966 and 10 March 1967. (Build in two parts
and welded together)
Have mine ports in
the stern and can be used as minelayers. |
LAHN-Class (Escort & Support Ship)
Build 1962 by Flender Werke, Lubeck, Germany.
Commissioned: 1962.
Decommissioned: 1993 and then scrapped
Type 401/402/403 Rhein class tenders
Displacement: 2700 tons full
load
Dimensions: 98.2m length; 11.8m beam; 4.7m draught
Armament: 2 100mm/55 in single mounts; 4 40mm/70 in four
Bofors single mounts; 2 depth charge racks; mine load possible (200
mines). Type 403 4 40mm/70 in two Breda twin mounts only.
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 6 Maybach Diesels 12000shp (402/403
class diesel-electric), 8,825hp (10060 in 403), 16 kts
Cargo:500 tons of munitions, spares and fuel
Complement: 99-122 crew, 35 man repair crew + accomodation
for the crews of supported boats
Description: A class of 13 tenders was ordered in 1956 in
order to support FAC (type 401), minesweepers (402) and submarines
(403). These ships had the size and the shape of a frigate and could
also serve as minelayers and ASW escorts, at least in the 1950s.
They were heavily armed with guns, mostly for their own air defense.
The minesweeper and submarine tenders differed from the FAC tenders
in having diesel-electric propulsion, in order to be able to charge
the batteries of submarines and the diesel-electric SM-Boats. The
submarine tenders were also only lightly armed. Since there were
more tenders than squadrons to support, 3 of these ships were used
in the cadet training role to supplement Schulschiff Deutschland. By
1980, 3 of the 401 type had been given to Turkey and Greece, while
the others were all used as tenders. After 1991, the rapid aging,
large crews and high maintenance costs prompted the replacement of
this class. The ships have all been paid off and scrapped. This
class was named after german rivers. |
