NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Hvidbjørnen		147	Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen	2.1928	27.12.1928	5.1929	scuttled 29.8.1943

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	914
Displacement full, t	1050
Length, m	63.2
Breadth, m	9.73
Draught, m	5.15
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	1800
Max speed, kts	14.5
Fuel, t	oil 140
Endurance, nm(kts)	3300(12)
Armament	2 x 1 - 87/46 Bofors M.28, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 1 seaplane (MF.11?)
Complement	58

Standard scale images

Project history

Perhaps, fishery protection ships were unique ships of Danish Navy, intended for operations in high seas, though, of course, it is very difficult to consider them as rigorous warships. They represented very variegated company: huge, to Danish measures, Ingolf with more than 1000t displacement, armed with 120mm guns and carrying a seaplane, and small 80t Ternen with 37mm gun.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Hvidbjørnen was scuttled by crew in Great Belt 29.8.1943, salvaged by Germans, repaired and entered service as Dorsch. After war she entered service with East German Navy as TC Ernst Thälmann and was sold only in 1965.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.