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  Drache

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Drache (ex-Змај [Zmaj])		118	Deutsche Werft, Hamburg	1928	22.6.1929	20.8.1930 // 7.8.1941	personnel transport 12.1941, minelayer 11.1942, sunk 22.9.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1870
Displacement full, t	2084
Length, m	76.5 pp 83.0 oa
Breadth, m	12.7
Draught, m	3.51
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 MAN diesels
Power, h. p.	3260
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	diesel oil 140
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(15)
Armament	2 x 1 - 84/55 Škoda M.29, 2 x 2 - 40/67 Škoda, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 DCR (12), 2 seaplanes (He 60, He 114, Ar 196, Ar 95)
Complement	145

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Project history

Former Yugoslavian seaplane tender Zmaj, 17.4.1941 captured at Split and commissioned by Germans 7.8.1941 as Drache. Seplanes were handled by 6.5t crane.

In April-August, 1942 in Trieste she was converted to minelayer: lattice farm with crane was removed, new armament was fitted, landing platform (20x5m) for helicopter Flettner Fl 282 was arranged, ship was commissioned again 26.11.1942.

Modernizations 11.

1942: was converted to minelayer with armament consisted of 2 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 2 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 1 x 1 - 15/84, 120 - 240 mines, 1 Fl 282 helicopter 1943: - 2 x 1 - 105/42, 1 x 1 - 37/80; + 2 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, 2 x 4 - 20/65 C/38

Naval service

Drache operated in Aegean and Adriatic seas, 29.9.1944 she was sunk by British diving bombers in Aegean sea at Samos.