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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Möwe	MÖ	102	MW Wilhelmshaven	3/1925	4.3.1926	10/1926	sunk 15.6.1944
Seeadler	SE	103	MW Wilhelmshaven	10/1925	15.7.1926	5/1927	sunk 13.5.1942
Greif	GR	104	MW Wilhelmshaven	10/1925	15.7.1926	3/1927	sunk 24.5.1944
Albatros	AT	105	MW Wilhelmshaven	10/1925	15.7.1926	5/1927	sunk 10.4.1940
Kondor	KO	106	MW Wilhelmshaven	11/1925	22.9.1926	7/1928	damaged 24.5.1944, never repaired
Falke	FK	107	MW Wilhelmshaven	11/1925	22.9.1926	8/1927	sunk 24.6.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	Möwe: 798 others: 924
Displacement full, t	Möwe: 1213 others: 1290
Length, m	Möwe: 84.7 wl 87.0 oa others: 85.7 wl 88.5 oa
Breadth, m	8.30
Draught, m	2.81 normal 3.65 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	Möwe: 2 sets Blohm & Voss geared steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers Greif, Falke: 2 sets Vulcan geared steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers Seeadler: 2 sets Germania geared steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers Albatros, Kondor: 2 sets Schichau geared steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	Möwe: 22100 others: 23000
Max speed, kts	Möwe: 32 others: 33
Fuel, t	oil 321
Endurance, nm(kts)	3600(17)
Armament	3 x 1 - 105/42 SKC/06 (Tbts L/45), 2 x 3 - 500 TT, 30 mines
Complement	120

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Project history

First torpedo ships, constructed in Germany within the limits of Versailles Treaty. The design was developed on the basis of H145 class of the period of the First World War and retained arrangement and structure of armament of a prototype. Machinery was placed linearly. Hull was constructed under longitudinal scheme, welding was widely used. For the first time in German Navy ships received triple TTs. 105mm guns were of model Utof/45 of 1906. Boats were equipped with Marine boilers and turbines of various producers: Möwe of Blohm und Voss, Seeadler of Germania, Greif and Falke of Vulkan, Albatros and Kondor of Schichau. Lead Möwe differed in the smaller dimensions and other hull form (cruiser stern instead of transom).

Modernizations

1930, Möwe: stern was lengthened as on latter ships, length oa was 88.8 m

1931, all: - 2 x 3 - 500 TT; + 2 x 3 - 533 TT

1935 - 1937, all: + 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/30

1939, all: + 2 DCT (8 - 12)

1940, all survived: - 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/30; + 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38

1941, Möwe: cruiser stern was changed by transom, length oa was 88.2 m.

1942, all survived: + 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38

1944, all survived: + 2x FuMO 63 radars, FuMB 4 Sumatra ECM suite

Naval service

In 1936-1938 all acted at coast of Spain. Albatros 10.4.1940 at evasion from fire of Norwegian coast battery ran ashore in Oslo-fjord and never repaired. Möwe 8.5.1940 was torpedoed by British submarine Taku in the North Sea, aft end was broken off, repair lasted 11 months. Seeadler was sunk 13.5.1942 by British MTB219 in La Manche. Greif was sunk 24.5.1944 by British bomber Albacore in Seine Mouth. Möwe and Falke were lost 15.6.1944 during raid of British aircraft to Le Havre. Kondor was hard damaged 24.5.1944 on mine in Seine mouth and 28.6.1944 stricken; 31.7.1944 she was destroyed by Allied aircraft in Le Havre.