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KUJ12 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
KUJ1	UJ1219	287	Unterweser, Bremerhaven		22.2.1943	7.1943	sunk 20.10.1944
KUJ2	UJ1430	288	Unterweser, Bremerhaven		7.7.1943	11.1943	surrendered 5.1945, GMSA despatch vessel Ente 1945, to United Kingdom 1947
KUJ3	UJ1431	289	Unterweser, Bremerhaven		14.10.1943	2.1944	surrendered 5.1945, GMSA despatch vessel Aldebaran 1945, to Soviet Union 2.1946
KUJ4	UJ1432	290	Unterweser, Bremerhaven		29.12.1943	5.1944	surrendered 5.1945, GMSA despatch vessel Pollux 1945, to Soviet Union 4.1946
KUJ5	UJ1708	291	Unterweser, Bremerhaven		22.4.1944	8.1944	surrendered 5.1945, GMSA despatch vessel Sirius 1945 (1946 - Schwertfisch), sold 1948
KUJ6	UJ1704	305	Unterweser, Bremerhaven		1944	11.1945 // ---	completed as GMSA despatch vessel Orion, to Soviet Union 3.1946
KUJ7	UJ1113	520	Werft Nobiskrug, Rendsburg		10.12.1942	10.1943	sunk 21.12.1944
KUJ8	UJ1220	521	Werft Nobiskrug, Rendsburg		25.3.1943	10.1943	sunk 12.10.1944
KUJ9	UJ1433	522	Werft Nobiskrug, Rendsburg		12.8.1943	1.1944	sunk 28.8.1944
KUJ10	UJ1224	523	Werft Nobiskrug, Rendsburg		13.11.1943	4.1944	sunk 15.9.1944
KUJ11	UJ1116	524	Werft Nobiskrug, Rendsburg		15.3.1944	7.1944	sunk 21.12.1944
KUJ12	UJ1225	525	Werft Nobiskrug, Rendsburg		29.6.1944	12.1944	surrendered 5.1945, GMSA despatch vessel KUj12 1945, sold 1952
KUJ13	UJ1210	440	Jos. L. Meyer, Papenburg		1942	4.1943	sunk 9.10.1943
KUJ14	UJ1713	441	Jos. L. Meyer, Papenburg		1943	8.1943	sunk 13.11.1944
KUJ15	UJ1221	442	Jos. L. Meyer, Papenburg		1943	1.1944	sunk 12.11.1944
KUJ16	UJ1702	443	Jos. L. Meyer, Papenburg		1944	7.1944	sunk 21.12.1944
KUJ17		444	Jos. L. Meyer, Papenburg		1944	---	incomplete, to Soviet Union 7.1946
KUJ18		445	Jos. L. Meyer, Papenburg		22.12.1949	1950 // ---	completed mercantile 1950
KUJ21	UJ1209	297	Deutsche Werft, Hamburg		12.8.1942	3.1943	sunk 20.6.1944
KUJ22	UJ1409	298	Deutsche Werft, Hamburg		1943	5.1943	damaged 23.5.1944, repair incomplete
KUJ23	UJ1222	299	Deutsche Werft, Hamburg		1943	3.1944	surrendered 5.1945, GMSA despatch vessel KUj23 1945, sold 1952
KUJ24		300	Deutsche Werft, Hamburg		1949	1950 // ---	damaged on the stocks 1944, completed mercantile 1950
KUJ25	UJ1223	301	Deutsche Werft, Hamburg		1944	8.1944	sunk 12.11.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	830
Displacement full, t	970
Length, m	53.7 wl 58.7 oa
Breadth, m	8.44
Draught, m	3.50 normal, 4.40 deep load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	VTE with exhaust steam turbine, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	960
Max speed, kts	12.8
Fuel, t	coal 193
Endurance, nm(kts)	4700(12.5)
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, 6 DCT (120)
Electronic equipment	presumably S-Gerät sonar, GHG hydrophone
Complement	61

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Project history

Unique German purpose built submarine chasers. The design of "War chaser" (Kriegs-U-Jager) was been developed on the basis of a fish trawler with adaptation under naval requirements. For improvement of seaworthiness the forecastle was lengthened, bridge was shifted fwd. Ships were equipped by single-shaft VTE, working on coal, sonar and had big DC stowage.

Totally 25 ships were ordered but only 21 were completed.

Modernizations

1945, most survived: - 3 x 1 - 20/65; + 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 3 x 2 - 20/65 C/38

Naval service

In days of war 12 units are lost. KUJ1 (UJ1219) was torpedoed 20.10.1944 by Soviet submarine V-4 at Nordkyn. KUJ7 (UJ1113) and KUJ11 (UJ1116) were lost 21.12.1944 on mines off beacon Feuerstein. KUJ8 (UJ1220) was sunk 12.10.1944 by torpedo from Soviet submarine V-2 at Berlevog. KUJ9 (UJ1433) was sunk 28.8.1944 by British MTB at Cape Antifer. KUJ10 (UJ1224) was sunk 15.9.1944 by Soviet aircraft in the Kongs Fjord. KUJ14 (UJ1713), KUJ15 (UJ1221) and KUJ25 (UJ1223) were sunk 13.11.1944 by British cruisers Kent, Bellona and destroyers Myngs, Verulam, Zambesi, Algonquin at Aegersunn. KUJ13 (UJ1210) was sunk 9.10.1943 by British aircraft at Gotenhafen. KUJ21 (UJ1209) was sunk 20.6.1944 by torpedo from Soviet submarine S-104 in Tana Fjord. KUJ22 (UJ1409) was lost 21.12.1944 on a mine at La Pallis.

KUJ3, KUJ4, KUJ6, KUJ16 and KUJ17 on reparations were transferred to the USSR. Remaining ships after war were used in various qualities to 1960th.



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