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DEUTSCHLAND training frigate (1963)


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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, t4880
Displacement full, t5684
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, kts22
Fuel, t

oil 230 + diesel oil 410

Endurance, nm(kts)3800(12)
Armament4 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

Complement172 + 250 cadets


Standard scale images


<i>Deutschland </i>1975
Deutschland 1975


Graphics


<i>Deutschland </i>1980
Deutschland 1980


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.