NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bussard	SP21	1500	Schichau, Königsberg	1940	1940	1.5.1942	surrendered 5.1945, to USA 2.1946
Falke	SP22	1502	Schichau, Königsberg	1940	29.7.1940	22.11.1942	surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 1946 (Аэронавт [Aeronavt])

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2040
Displacement full, t
Length, m	98.3
Breadth, m	14.0
Draught, m	2.20
No of shafts	2 Voith-Schneider propellers
Machinery	2 KHD diesels
Power, h. p.	1800
Max speed, kts	12
Fuel, t	diesel oil 230
Endurance, nm(kts)	5200(12)
Armament	Bussard: 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 1 20t catapult, seaplane (Do 24, BV 138) Falke: 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 1 20t catapult, seaplane (Do 24, BV 138)
Complement	54

Standard scale images

Project history

Vessels with heavy catapults for launching of heavy flying boats (Do 15, Do 18). Naval analogues of merchant catapult vessels servicing transatlantic lines of Lufthansa. For lifting of aircrafts from water on a catapult they were arranged by 20t cranes.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

On reparations Falke was transferred to the USSR as Aeronavt and Bussard to the USA, in 1948 she was is sold to the Netherlands and converted to dredger.