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KW15 1978

Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
P1, 1953- H11, 7.1956- Y857 KW11 P2, 1953- H12, 7.1956- Y858 KW12 P3, 1953- H13, 7.1956- Y859 KW13 P4, 1953- H14, 7.1956- Y860 KW14 H15, 11.1956- Y827 KW15, 1964- BG1, 1971- Y827 KW15 H16, 11.1956- Y830 KW16, 1964- BG2, 1970- Y830 KW16 H17, 11.1956- Y845 KW17, 1964- BG3, 1970- Y845 KW17 H18, 11.1956- Y832 KW18, 1967- Y832 KW18 H19, 11.1956- Y833 KW19, 1967- Y833 KW19 H20, 11.1956- Y846 KW20, 1964- BG4, 1970- Y846 KW20	USA: P1-4 Schweers, Barenfels: H15, 19 Lürssen, Lemwerder: H16, 20 Schürenstedt, Barenfels: H17 Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder: H18	1952-1953: P1-4, H15-20	None	None	1964: Y857-860 1968: Y833 1993: Y827, 832 1994: Y830, 845, 846

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	51 - 52
Displacement full, t	72 - 78
Length, m	25.8 - 27.0 wl 27.1 - 29.0 oa
Breadth, m	4.60 - 4.70
Draught, m	1.40
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Mercedes-Benz diesels
Power, h. p.	2000
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	diesel oil 7
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 20/80 Mk 7 (HS804) or 2 x 1 - 20/80 Mk 7 (HS804) or 2 x 2 - 20/80 Mk 5 (HS804)
Electronic equipment	radar
Complement	17

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Project history

H15-20 of the Type 369 were former USN patrol boats, which served under the designation USN 54-59 with the LSU's Weser River Patrol. They resembled the four patrol boats P1-4 of the Frontier Guard, which were commissioned 1 Juny 1956 for the navy as KW11-14 and finally became the Type 909 air-sea rescue boats FL 5-FL 8.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

KW 15, 16, 17 and 20 were decommissioned in 1964 and transferred to the new inspection unit who commissioned them as BG1-4. After their return in 1971 they were disarmed like their sisters and commissioned as security vessels with civilian crews for the Territorial Command. Since the 1960s KW 19 has served as a dispatch boat in the North Sea area with a civilian crew. She was decommissioned 22 December 1981.