NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Este	UJ1717	683	v. d. Giessen, Krimpen		26.6.1943	9.1944	surrendered 5.1945, sold 1948
Fock & Hubert	UJ1229	684	v. d. Giessen, Krimpen		26.6.1943	9.1944	surrendered 5.1945, sold 1948
Kurt Ramien (ex-Hinrich Wesselhöft)		685	v. d. Giessen, Krimpen		16.6.1943	9.1944	completed as trial ship, sunk 4.4.1945
Katzbach (ex-H. V. Behrens)		686	v. d. Giessen, Krimpen		16.6.1943	6.1944	completed as trial ships, sunk 18.9.1944
Gauleiter Telschow	UJ1228	470	N. V. de Merwede, Hardinxveld / Seebeck		30.6.1943	1.1946 // ---	completed mercantile
Thetis	UJ1718	471	N. V. de Merwede, Hardinxveld / Seebeck		5.1944	12.1947 // ---	completed mercantile
Berlebek (ex-Rotersand)	WBS7 (ex-V1549)	472	N. V. de Merwede, Hardinxveld		5.1944	7.1944	surrendered 5.1945, sold 2.1946
Hoheweg	WBS5, 1945- V1549	473	N. V. de Merwede, Hardinxveld		8.1944	1947 // ---	completed mercantile
Wangerooge	UJ1214	102	Nederlandsche Dok Mij., Amsterdam / Nobiskrug		24.6.1944	8.1945 // ---	completed mercantile
Julius Pickenpack	UJ1119	103	Nederlandsche Dok Mij., Amsterdam		9.1944	11.1944	sunk 6.3.1945 or 5.5.1945
Gotland	UJ1118	104	Nederlandsche Dok Mij., Amsterdam		1944	1948 // ---	completed mercantile
Gebrüder Kähler	V1548	105	Nederlandsche Dok Mij., Amsterdam		5.1944	3.1946 // ---	completed mercantile
Hermann Krone	WBS45	106	Nederlandsche Dok Mij., Amsterdam		23.3.1946	11.1948 // ---	completed mercantile
Lüneburg		251	Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij.		18.3.1944	7.1946 // ---	completed mercantile
Dortmund	V1300	252	Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij.		8.8.1944	1945 // ---	completed mercantile
Teutoburger Wald	WBS12	253	Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij.		4.5.1944	1945 // ---	completed mercantile
Koblenz		254	Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij.		23.12.1944	2.1948 // ---	completed mercantile
Antares	UJ1115	227	Koninklijke Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen / Nordseewerke		4.2.1944	4.1945	surrendered 5.1945, sold 8.1945
Potsdam	UJ1230	228	Koninklijke Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen		9.2.1944	6.1947 // ---	completed mercantile
Gleiwitz	V2016	229	Koninklijke Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen		24.2.1944	1948 // ---	completed mercantile
Rügen		230	Koninklijke Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen		23.2.1944	1948 // ---	completed mercantile
Straßburg		231/610	N. V. de Noord, Alblasserdam		---	---	BU incomplete
Breslau		232/611	N. V. de Noord, Alblasserdam		---	---	BU incomplete
Schleswig		233/241	Haan & Oerlemans, Heusden		---	---	BU incomplete
Aldebaran		234/565	de Klop, Sliedrecht		---	---	BU incomplete
Friedrich Müller		235/503	N. V. de Merwede, Hardinxveld		---	---	BU incomplete
Perseus		236/612	N. V. de Noord, Alblasserdam		---	---	BU incomplete
Lofoten	UJ1434	567	P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam		18.9.1943	8.1944	surrendered 5.1945, sold 1948
Skolpenbank	UJ1227	568	P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam / Unterweser / Germaniawerft		23.12.1943	12.1947 // ---	completed mercantile
Malangen	UJ1435	569	P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam		19.10.1943	9.1944	sunk 24.3.1945
Externsteine (ex-Manheim)	WBS11	570	P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam		5.5.1944	7.1944	captured by USA 16.10.1944 (trial ship Eastbreeze)
Weimar		571	P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam		---	---	BU incomplete
München		572	P. Smit jr. N. V., Rotterdam		---	---	BU incomplete

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement full, t	1200
Length, m	50.2 wl 56.5 oa
Breadth, m	9.16
Draught, m	4.19
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE with exhaust steam turbine, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	750
Max speed, kts	12
Fuel, t	coal 148
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 15/70, 2 DCR
Complement

Standard scale images

Project history

Auxiliary submarine chasers based on trawler hulls ordered by Kriegsmarine to Dutch shipbuilders.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

UJ1119 was sunk by Allied aircraft at Sassnitz 6.3. or 5.5.1945. UJ1435 was sunk by rockets of Allied aircraft 24.3.1945 off Egersund. Externsteine was captured by USN icebreaker Eastwind and renamed Eastbreeze. She served as trial ship IX205 Callao till 1950.