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Hessen 1980  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Hamburg	D181		Stülcken, Hamburg	29.1.1959	26.3.1960	23.3.1964	stricken 2.1994
Schleswig-Holstein	D182		Stülcken, Hamburg	20.8.1959	20.8.1960	12.10.1964	stricken 12.1994
Bayern	D183		Stülcken, Hamburg	14.9.1960	14.8.1962	6.7.1965	stricken 12.1993
Hessen	D184		Stülcken, Hamburg	15.2.1961	4.5.1963	8.10.1968	stricken 3.1990

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3340
Displacement full, t	4330
Length, m	128.0 wl 133.7 oa
Breadth, m	13.4
Draught, m	5.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Wahodag geared steam turbines, 4 Wahodag boilers
Power, h. p.	72000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 800
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(13)
Armament	4 x 1 - 100/55 Mle 1953, 4 x 2 Breda-Bofors type 106, 4 x 1 - 533 TT, 2 x 4 - 375 Bofors ASWRL, 2 DCR (12), 60 - 80 mines
Electronic equipment	LW-02, DA-02, Kelvin Hughes 14/9, 4x M45 radars, 1BV sonar, WLR-6 ECM suite
Complement	244

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Project history

Originally the German Navy wanted twelve Type 101 destroyers and, in fact, ordered them in August 1957, but it transpired that they could not be built on the planned displacement of 2500t. So the Western European Union by a post factum decision raised the displacement to 6000t.

Modernizations

1976, Hamburg, Hessen; 1977, Bayern; 1979, Schleswig-Holstein under 101A type: - 1 x 1 - 100/55 (No3), LW-02, DA-02, 1x M45 radars; + 2 x 2 Exocet MM38 SSM (4 MM38), LW-04, DA-08, SGR-103 radars, 2x SCLAR decoy RL; the boilers were modified to bum light oil. and the lattice mainmast was removed.

1978, all: enclosed bridge was fitted.

Naval service

No significant events.