NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Tonnage, BRT (disp., t)	Dimensions, m (length pp)	Speed, kts	Engine, Power hp	Armament	Fate
Schiff 4 Wandrahm, 1940- V1801, 8.1940- V6114 Eismeer	8.10.1927 // 9.1939	Stettiner Oderwerke	1228 (2200)	73.0x11.6x4.4	9.5	1VTE, 2boilers, 750		surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 3.1946
Schiff 12 Dr. Heinrich Wiegand	1.9.1938 // ---	Nylands, Oslo, Norway	1421 (2600)	78.0x12.5x4.5		VC+exh. tu, 2 boilers, 1200	2 - 533 TT	conversion cancelled 11.1939
Schiff 15 Neuss	22.10.1935 // 12.1939	Howaldtwerke, Hamburg	1243 (1640)	73.5x11.0x3.4	10.5	2 diesels, 900	2 - 533 TT	auxiliary 4.1940
Schiff 17 Alster	5.1.1928 // ---	Deschimag / Vulcan, Hamburg	8514 (16100)	163.3x19.4x8.6	14	VTE+ exh. tu, 5 boilers, 6500	2 - 533 TT	conversion cancelled 11.1939
Schiff 27 Messina	27.7.1937 // ---	Neptun, Rostock	2191 (4150)	92.4x13.3x5.6	13	1 DVC+exh. tu, 2 boilers, 1635	2 - 533 TT	conversion cancelled 11.1939
Schiff 29 Lola	1920 // 10.1941	Caledon SB, Dundee, UK	1193 (2750)	82.3x11.0x5.1	14	1VTE, 3boilers, 1850	2 - 20	sunk 17.10.1944
Schiff 35 Oldenburg	29.6.1936 // 12.1939	Deutsche Werft, Hamburg	2312 (4400)	87.8x14.0x6.0	12.5	1 DVC, 2 boilers, 1600	2 x 1 - 533 TT	sunk 14.4.1940
Schiff 40 Schürbeck	10.4.1930 // 12.1939	Flensburger Schiffbau	2448 (4800)	93.6x13.9x6.2	11	DVC, 2 boilers, 1225	2 x 1 - 533 TT	blockade runner 12.1940
Schiff 43 Falkenberg	14.2.1912 // ---	Bremer Vulcan, Vegesack	1661 (3200)	79.4x11.3x5.9		VTE, 2 boilers, 1500	2 - 533 TT	conversion cancelled 9.1939
Schiff 43 Capri	28.2.1927 // ---	Neptun, Rostock	1846 (3800)	91.3x12.5x5.6	11	VTE, 2 boilers, 1100	2 - 533 TT	conversion cancelled 11.1939
Main	30.6.1927 // ---	Bremer Vulcan, Vegesack	7624 (15300)	153.3x19.2x8.6	14	VTE+exh. tu, 4 boilers, 7250	2 - 533 TT	conversion cancelled 11.1939

100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels

Schiff 4 Coburg (1938, 344, 12.1939 - 1940); Schiff 7 Möwe; Schiff 7 Wega (1932, 337, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 533 TT, 11.1939 - patrol MN02 7.1940); Schiff 9 Koblenz (1931, 438, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 533 TT, 11.1939 - 10.4.1940); Schiff 18 Alteland (1930, 419, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 533 TT, 12.1939 - patrol MN01 7.1940); Schiff 19 Rila, 9.1943 - UJ117 (1941, 194, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 1942 - 28.3.1944); Schiff 20 Nerissa (1936, 992, 2 - 533 TT, 12.1939 - 12.1940); Schiff 24 Mars (1920, 224, 8.1940 - 3.9.1940); Schiff 26 Julius Pickenpack (1931, 419, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 533 TT, 10.1939 - 26.4.1940); Schiff 37 Schleswig (1931, 433, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 533 TT, 11.1939 - 26.4.1940); Schiff 47 Wilhelm Huth (1931, 438, 11.1939 - 10.10.1943); Schiff 49 Amerskerk

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Project history

Converted merchant vessels, armed with guns and torpedoes and used as decoys.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Oldenburg was sunk by British submarine Sunfish.