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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
G1		789	Stülcken, Hamburg	11.1942	---	---	BU incomplete

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1372
Displacement full, t	1793
Length, m	84.0 wl 87.0 oa
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	3.18 normal 3.85 deep load
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Lenz VTE with exhaust turbines, 2 Benson boilers
Power, h. p.	6750
Max speed, kts	21
Fuel, t	oil 465
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(20)
Armament	2 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 4 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 4 DCT, 11 DCR, 50 mines, 1 helicopter (Fl282)
Electronic equipment	S-Gerät sonar, GHG hydrophone
Complement	158

Standard scale images

Project history

Design was developed on the basis of project of Gunboat 1938 and differed from F type escorts by larger dimensions, better seaworthiness and habitability, higher endurance and more conventional machinery with low pressure steam. Building of totally 24 ships was planned. Really only G1 was laid down but building was suspended in May, 1943. Hull was destroyed on the stocks 27.7.1943 by British bombers and broken up next year. Building of G2 (Stülcken, Hamburg) and G5 and G6 (Wilton-Fijenoord, Rotterdam) was prepared but never started.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.