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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
K4 Lorelei (ex-Artevelde)		686	Cockerill, Antwerp, Belgium / Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam	1939	28.8.1940	4.1943	surrendered 5.1945, to Belgium 6.1945 (Artevelde)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1640
Displacement full, t	2306
Length, m	94.8 wl 98.5 oa
Breadth, m	10.5
Draught, m	3.3 normal 3.80 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons-Rateau geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	21700
Max speed, kts	28.5
Fuel, t	oil 680
Endurance, nm(kts)	1200(19)
Armament	3 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 1 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 120 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	180

Standard scale images

Project history

Former Belgian fishery protection vessel and royal yacht Artevelde. Ship was captured on a slipway in Antwerp, renamed Lorelei and 28.8.1940 renamed again as K4. K4 was launched under German control and towed off to the Netherlands for outfitting, during which time she received German armament (designed armament consisted from 2 twin 102mm guns and 1 twin 40mm AA MG). Machinery had British origin: Parsons turbine units and Babcock & Wilcox boilers with raised steam parameters (32atm, 400°C). Ship differed as seaworthy and fast, but had no any protection (except 40mm gun shields) and had poor stability. The Basic purpose of ship was anti-air defence of convoys.

Modernizations

till 1945: - 2 x 1 - 37/80, 2 x 1 - 20/65; + 2 x 1 - 40/56 FlaK 28, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 2 - 20/65 C/38.

Naval service

After war K4 was returned to Belgium where served under former name till 1954.