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Deutschland 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Deutschland	A59		Nobiskrug, Rendsburg	11.9.1959	5.11.1960	25.5.1963	stricken 6.1990

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	4880
Displacement full, t	5684
Length, m	130.0 wl 138.2 oa
Breadth, m	16.1
Draught, m	5.10
No of shafts	3
Machinery	CODAS: 4 MTU (2 Daimler-Benz + 2 Maybach) diesels (outer shafts) + 1 set Wahodag geared steam turbines (central shaft), 2 Wahodag boilers
Power, h. p.	8000+8400=16400
Max speed, kts	22
Fuel, t	oil 230 + diesel oil 410
Endurance, nm(kts)	3800(12)
Armament	4 x 1 - 100/55 Mle 1953, 2 x 2 - 40/70 Breda-Bofors 106, 2 x 1 - 40/70 Breda-Bofors 107, 2 - 533 TT (stern), 4 x 1 - 533 TT, 2 x 4 - 375 Bofors ASWRL, 2 DCR, mines
Electronic equipment	LW-02/03, SGR-114, SGR-105, SGR-103, DA-02, 2x M45 radars, ELAC 1BV sonar
Complement	172 + 250 cadets

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Project history

The training ship Deutschland was of the Type 440 and was not strictly fighting unit although she was designed in 1957-58 as a multipurpose  ship in case of war for troop transport, hospital, escort and minelaying duties. Extraordinary displacement required special permission from the WEU, and limits to speed and armament were imposed.

Deutschland served as a cadet training ship only and for this reason she had a number of unique features, in combination not found in any other ship. The propulsion was mixed: the central shaft steam-turbine driven, the outer shafts by two different types of diesel: one Maybach and one Mercedes-Benz.

Modernizations

mid-1970s: - 2 - 533 TT (stern)

1979: all diesels became Mercedes-Benz

late 1980s: - SGR-114, SGR-105, SGR-103 radars; + LW-08, ZW-01 radars

Naval service

No significant events.