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TIROL patrols (1941 - 1944)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tirol V5713 484 Akers Mek. Verkst., Oslo   1941 7.1941 surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1945
Skagerrak V5715, 7.1944- V6408 485 Akers Mek. Verkst., Oslo   1942 3.1942 sunk 16.1.1945
Flandern V5716 497 Akers Mek. Verkst., Oslo   1942 5.1942 damaged 15.10.1944, never repaired
Zeebrügge NH03, 5.1944- UJ1210 498 Akers Mek. Verkst., Oslo   1943 4.1943 sunk 16.5.1944
Helgoland V6115 499 Akers Mek. Verkst., Oslo   1943 6.1943 surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1945
Doggerbank V6116 500 Akers Mek. Verkst., Oslo   1944 10.1944 surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 1947


Technical data


Displacement standard, t850
Displacement full, t1060
Length, m

46.1 wl 51.9 oa

Breadth, m

8.69

Draught, m4.75
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

1285

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, toil
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

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

Skagerrak, Flandern, Zeebrügge, Helgoland, Doggerbank: 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

Complement55


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.

Naval service

V6408 was torpedoed by British submarine Utsira 16.1.1945 S off Vikna. V5716 was damaged 15.10.1944 by Allied aircraft at Frohavet and never repaired. UJ1210 was sunk 16.5.1944 in Varanger Fjord by Soviet aircraft.