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CARL KÄMPF submarine chaser (1940)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Carl Kämpf UJ179, 8.1941- UJ1709 219 Norddeutsche Werft, Geestemünde   24.4.1940 8.1940 sunk 14.10.1941


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t

1335

Length, m

57.0 wl 63.8 oa

Breadth, m

8.60

Draught, m

4.15

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE with exhaust steam turbine, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

12.3

Fuel, t

coal 320

Endurance, nm(kts)4600(12)
Armament

1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 DCR

Complement50


Standard scale images


<i>UJ179</i> 1940
UJ179 1940


Project history

Fishery trawler, purchased by Navy during building and commissioned as submarine chaser.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Carl Kämpf was sunk by British submarine 14.10.1941 off Egersund.