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Grille as yacht

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Grille		500	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg	17.7.1934	15.12.1934	20.5.1935	minelayer 9.1939, command ship 8.1942, surrendered 5.1945, to United Kingdom 1945, sold mercantile 1946

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2560
Displacement full, t	3430
Length, m	115.0 pp 135.1 oa 142.9 max
Breadth, m	13.5
Draught, m	3.80 normal 4.20 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Blohm & Voss geared steam turbines, 4 Benson boilers
Power, h. p.	22000
Max speed, kts	26
Fuel, t	oil 1000
Endurance, nm(kts)	9500(19)
Armament	3 x 1 - 128/42 SK C/34, 2 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30
Complement	257

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Project history

Built as government yacht, officially was classified as aviso, also was used as HQ, training and target ship (in the latter case for aviation torpedoes trials). Grille had easily recognised "yacht" outline profile with bowsprit and experimental machinery: she was the first ship with high-pressure boilers of Benson design (80atm). With war beginning Grille was converted to auxiliary minelayer, but then used mainly as a command ship.

Modernizations 9.

1939: - 3 x 1 - 128/42; + 3 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 4 x 1 - 20/65 C/30, 280 mines

8/1942: - mine capacity

Naval service

On reparations Grille was transferred to United Kingdom.