NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bochum (ex-Rice County, ex-LST1089)	N120 (ex-A1404)		American Bridge, Pittsburgh, USA	12.1944	17.2.1945	3.1945 // 9.4.1964	stricken 9.1971, to Turkey (Sancaktar)
Bottrop (ex-Saline County, ex-LST1101)	N121 (ex-A1405)		Missouri Valley Bridge, Evansville, USA	11.1944	3.1.1945	1.1945 // 6.2.1964	stricken 9.1971, to Turkey (Bayraktar)
Bamberg (ex-Greer County, ex-LST799)	A1403		Jeffersonville, USA	8.1944	3.10.1944	10.1944 // ---	sold 1970

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3640
Displacement full, t	4140
Length, m	96.3 wl 101.4 oa
Breadth, m	15.3
Draught, m	3.98 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 General Motors 12-567A diesels
Power, h. p.	1700
Max speed, kts	11
Fuel, t	diesel oil 590
Endurance, nm(kts)	15000 (9)
Armament	2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, mines
Electronic equipment	Kelvin Highes 14/9 radar
Complement	60

Standard scale images

Project history

In 1960 a total of seven US wartime LST type tank landing ships was purchased and in the summer of 1961 they arrived with German crews at Wilhelmshaven. Two were converted into the Type 726 maintenance ships Odin and Wodan. The planned conversion of two more to maintenance ships was dropped and both were sold for scrapping. Three units arrived at Wilhelmshaven with the pennants A1403-1405 were converted to Type 370 minelayers in 1962. During this conversion the bow ramp was removed and the bow doors welded up. Superstructure and interior equipment was adapted for the future use, six rails with launching ramps were fixed on the deck, the platform and lower deck also had minerails and two launching ramps with hatches. Bochum and Bottrop came into service in 1964. The conversion of Bamberg was 60% finished when this was stopped and the ship was sold for scrap.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.