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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, t	850
Displacement full, t	1060
Length, m	46.1 wl 51.9 oa
Breadth, m	8.69
Draught, m	4.75
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	1285
Max speed, kts	12
Fuel, t	oil
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
Complement	55

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.