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Artevelde

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Artevelde (ex-K4 Lorelei, ex-Artevelde)			Cockerill, Antwerp / Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam, Netherlands	1939	28.8.1940	4.1943 // 6.1945	barrack ship 1951

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 Parsons-Rateau geared steam turbines sets, 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, 2 x 1 - 40/56 FlaK 28, 1 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 3 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 2 - 20/65 C/38, 120 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	180

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Project history

Fishery protection vessel and royal yacht Artevelde, designed for replacement of older Zinnia, could be used also as escort and minelayer. 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 105mm guns and 1 twin 40mm AA MG, 30 DCs and 64 mines). 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. After war K4 was returned to Belgium where served under former name as frigate.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Artevelde was returned by Germans with damaged machinery, which was never repaired and used really as stationary training ship, converted to barrack ship in 1951 and broken up 22.11.1954.