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EKWATOR patrols (1943 - 1944)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
--- V316 553 de Klop, Sliedrecht   24.9.1942 8.1943 sunk 25.9.1943
--- V2017 554 de Klop, Sliedrecht   14.1.1943 10.1943 surrendered 5.1945, sold 8.1948
Ekwator V2013 563 P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam   17.10.1942 11.1943 surrendered 5.1945, sold 1947
Karel V2014 564 P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam   31.10.1942 10.1943 surrendered 5.1945, sold 6.1948
--- V2015 788 J. & K. Smit`s Sheepsw., Kinderdijk   1943 8.1943 surrendered 5.1945, sold 7.1948
--- V2016 789 J. & K. Smit`s Sheepsw., Kinderdijk   1943 10.1943 sunk 2.11.1944
--- V718 239 Verschure & Co. Sheepsw. N. V., Amsterdam   1942 5.1943 sunk 21.2.1944
--- V719, 1945- UJ1118 240 Verschure & Co. Sheepsw. N. V., Amsterdam   1942 8.1943 sunk 6.3.1945
--- V720 307 Nederl. Sheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam   1943 1.1944 sunk 23.8.1944
--- V721 308 Nederl. Sheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam   1943 2.1944 sunk 23.8.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t

1250
Length, m

53.4 wl 61.0 oa
Breadth, m

9.00
Draught, m

4.17
No of shafts

1
Machinery

1 VTE with exhaust steam turbine, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.

760
Max speed, kts

11.5
Fuel, t

coal 152
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/06, 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 6 DCT (40), 1 flamethrower
Electronic equipmentFuMO 28 (some) radar, GHG hydrophone
Complement

69


Standard scale images


<i>V316</i> 1943
V316 1943


Project history

Fishery trawlers, ordered to Dutch shipbuilders by Soviet Union and purchased by Kriegsmarine during building and commissioned as patrols.

Modernizations

1944, all survived: - 1 x 1 - 20/65, FuMO 28 (some) radar; + 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, FuMO 61 (some) radar

Naval service

V316 was torpedoed by Allied aircraft 25.9.1943 off Kamperduin (Camperdown) and ran aground S off Den Helder. V2016 was torpedoed by British MTBs 2.11.1944 off Hook van Holland. V718 was mined after 21.2.1944 off Lorient. UJ1118 was bombed by Allied aircraft 6.3.1945 at Sassnitz. V720 and V721 were sunk by gunfire of British boats 23.8.1944 at Audierne.