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SEETEUFEL patrols (1941 - 1945)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Seeteufel (ex-Kos...) V5505, 5.1942- V5301 111 Kaldnes Mek. Verkst., Tønsberg   1940 1.1941 surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1945
Nordwind V6109 112 Kaldnes Mek. Verkst., Tønsberg   1941 6.1941 sunk 23.4.1944
Seelöwe V5508, 3.1942- V5302, 1945- M2008 113 Kaldnes Mek. Verkst., Tønsberg   1941 7.1941 minesweeper 1945, surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1947
Falkland V5901, 1.1945- UJ1231 116 Kaldnes Mek. Verkst., Tønsberg   1942 3.1942 surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1945
Coronel V5909 117 Kaldnes Mek. Verkst., Tønsberg   1941 1.1942 sunk 1.2.1943
Gallipoli NKi10, 7.1944- V6118 118 Kaldnes Mek. Verkst., Tønsberg   1942 12.1942 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 1947
Narvik NH06, 5.1944- UJ1211 119 Kaldnes Mek. Verkst., Tønsberg   1943 10.1943 wrecked 22.12.1944
Penang V5908 120 Kaldnes Mek. Verkst., Tønsberg   1943 9.1943 damaged 26.1.1944, repaired 1945 for GMSA, to Norway 1947
Jan Mayen V5909 121 Kaldnes Mek. Verkst., Tønsberg   1944 2.1945 surrendered 5.1945, to United Kingdom 6.1945


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t1100
Length, m

47.5 wl 53.6 oa
Breadth, m

8.84
Draught, m4.20
No of shafts

1
Machinery

1 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.

2400
Max speed, kts

15
Fuel, toil
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

Seeteufel, Nordwind, Seelöwe: 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 DCR

Falkland, Coronel, Gallipoli, Narvik, Penang, Jan Mayen: 1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, (1 - 2) x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 DCR
Complement65


Standard scale images


<i>UJ1231</i> 1942
UJ1231 1942


Project history

Whalers, laid down on order of Norwegian companies but purchased by Kriegsmarine during building and commissioned as patrols.

Modernizations

1942, all survived and completed were armed with 1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, (1 - 2) x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 DCR.

1945, Seelöwe was re-armed with 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 6 DCR, sweeps

Naval service

V6109 was badly damaged by torpedo of Soviet aircraft 23.4.1944 E off Vardö, taken under tow by V6110 but ultimately sunk by Soviet air bombs the same day. V5909 was sunk by Soviet submarine M-172 1.2.1943 N off Makkaur. UJ1211 ran aground 22.12.1944 at Ulvenfeuer. V5908 was badly damaged by Allied aircraft 26.1.1944 at Aalesund and stricken.