NAVYPEDIA

Support the project with paypal


HOME
FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
GERMANY
ESCORTS
GRETA patrols (1915 - 1918)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Geo Plate   111 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   5.1916 7.1916 sold 3.1920
Roland   112 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   7.1916 7.1916 sold 7.1919
Greta   119 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   14.8.1915 9.1915 sunk 15.3.1918
Anna   123 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   18.12.1915 2.1916 sold 11.1918
Seydlitz   124 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   24.3.1916 4.1916 sold 7.1919
Lützow   125 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   3.1916 4.1916 sold 8.1919
Präsident Rose   126 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   19.4.1916 5.1916 sold 12.1918
Wümme   127 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   16.5.1916 5.1916 sold 5.1919
Island   128 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   8.1916 10.1916 sold 12.1918
Caroline Köhne 1.1941- Hs21 129 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   8.1916 9.1916 sold 7.1919, patrol 1.1941, surrendered 5.1945, sold
Bremerhaven   130 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   9.1916 10.1916 sunk 5.10.1918
Hamme   131 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   10.1916 11.1916 sold 5.1919
Delme   132 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   21.11.1916 12.1916 sold 6.1919
Bürgermeister Pauli   144 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   1916 12.1916 wrecked 8.1.1918
Senator Wessels   145 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   1916 1.1917 to United Kingdom 7.1920
Hermann Löns   146 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   1.1917 3.1917 sold 3.1919
Fritz Reuter   147 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   2.1917 3.1917 sold 3.1919
Claus Groth   148 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   2.1917 4.1917 sunk 18.4.1918
Admiral von Schröder   152 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   14.4.1917 5.1917 sunk 1.9.1917
Falkenhayn 6.1943- DC46 154 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   6.1917 6.1917 sold 8.1919, patrol 6.1943, surrendered 5.1945, sold
Duysburg   155 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   7.1917 8.1917 sold 6.1919
Kontreadmiral Maas 5.1940- M3406 156 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   15.8.1917 9.1917 sold 7.1919, minesweeper 5.1940, surrendered 5.1945, sold
Elberfeld   157 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   10.1917 11.1917 sold 2.1919
Barmen   158 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   15.10.1917 12.1917 sold 7.1919
Essen   159 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   17.11.1917 4.1918 sold 11.1922
Großadmiral von Köster   160 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   22.1.1918 2.1918 sold 5.1919
Admiral von Knorr   161 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   25.4.1918 5.1918 sold 3.1919
Admiral von Thomsen   164 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   28.6.1918 9.1918 sold 3.1919
Admiral Graf Baudissin   165 Unterwser, Wesermünde-Lehe   19.7.1918 9.1918 sold 1.1919


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t

450

Length, m

41.5

Breadth, m

6.85

Draught, m

2.80

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

400

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

coal 128

Endurance, nm(kts)4600(9)
Armament

1 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89 or 88/32 SK L/35 C/01 or 88/27 TK L/30 C/08

Complement24 - 31


Standard scale images


<i>Roland</i> 1916
Roland 1916


Project history

Fishery trawlers, purchased by Navy during building and commissioned as auxiliary patrols.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Greta was sunk on mine 15.3.1918 off Blaavand Point. Bremerhaven was sunk by 4 British torpedo boats 5.10.1918 in 119nm NW off Helgoland. Bürgermeister Pauli 23.12.1916 was wrecked on Hohes Riff, salvaged, repaired and 8.1.1918 again wrecked on Hohes Riff. Claus Groth was mined off Tachkuna (Estonia) 18.4.1918. Admiral von Schröder 1.9.1917 off Blaavandshuk ran aground being damaged by British destroyers.

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