NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
SG41 (ex-Matelot Leblanc), 5.1943- SG14			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	8.1939	10.7.1942	5.1943	sunk 24.8.1944
SG15 (ex-SG42, ex-Rageot de la Touche), 5.1944- UJ2229			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	8.1939	2.9.1942	10.1943	sunk 25.5.1944
SG21 Bernd von Arnim (ex-Amiral Sénès)			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	8.1939	1942	3.1944	sunk 15.8.1944
SG22 (ex-Enseigne Ballande)			A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc	8.1939	25.5.1942	---	scuttled incomplete 20.8.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	647
Displacement full, t	917
Length, m	73.8 wl 78.3 oa
Breadth, m	8.48
Draught, m	2.88
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Sulzer 2-stroke diesels
Power, h. p.	4000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	diesel oil 105
Endurance, nm(kts)	10000(9)
Armament	SG14, 15: 2 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 1 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 10 x 1 - 20/65 C/38 SG21: 2 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 1 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 4 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38
Complement	125

Project history

Former French aviso-minesweepers of Chamois class. Incomplete Matelot Leblanc, Rageot de la Touche, Amiral Senes and Enseigne Ballande 27.10.1942 were captured by German troops in Toulon on various availability stages and completed for German Navy as fast escorts. Machinery was thus stored, but French armament was replaced by German.

Modernizations

none.

Naval service

SG14 was sunk 24.8.1944 S off Capri by Allied aircraft. SG21 was sunk 15.8.1944 by American destroyer Somers off St. Tropez. SG15 in April, 1944 was reclassified to submarine chasers UJ2229 and was sunk by British submarine Universal at Genoa 26.5.1944.

SG22 had not time to be commissioned by German Navy: she 20.8.1944 was scuttled at Port-de-Bouc.