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ERNST THÄLMANN training vessel (1929/1950)


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Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Ernst Thälmann (ex-Hvidbjörnen), 1.1961- Albin Köbis   147 Orlogsvaerft, Kobenhavn, Denmark 2.1928 27.12.1928 5.1929 // 12.6.1950 hulk 9.1961


Technical data


Displacement standard, t914
Displacement full, t1100
Length, m

65.6

Breadth, m

9.82

Draught, m

5.40

No of shafts1
Machinery

1 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

13.2

Fuel, toil
Endurance, nm(kts)2500(12)
Armament

4 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 1 - 25/80 84KM

Electronic equipmentradar
Complement

56 + 56 cadets



Standard scale images


<i>Ernst Thälmann </i>1955
Ernst Thälmann 1955


Project history

Built for the Royal Danish Navy as the fishery protection vessel Hvidbjörnen. Scuttled 29 August 1945 in the Great Belt, she was raised and repaired by the Kriegsmarine, and was found damaged at Warnemünde after the war. Take over by the GDR on 12 June 1950, she was refitted by Peenewerft, Wolgast (new bridge and armament) and entered Volksmarine service on 10 December 1952 as a training ship.

Modernizations

1956: - 2 x 1 - 37/63, 2 x 1 - 25/80; + 1 x 1 - 85/52 90K, 1 x 2 - 25/80 2M-3

Naval service

: In 1956, after re-boilering and rearming, she was transferred to the Frontier Guard. She was hulked in 1961 and scrapped in 1968.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.