NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Steiermark (ex-Capitan Nuñes)	V5711, 5.1944- V6608	352	Nylands Mek. Verkst., Oslo		1940	1.1941	surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1945
Felix Scheder	V5506, 5.1942- V5307	357	Nylands Mek. Verkst., Oslo		1941	5.1941	sunk 12.9.1944
Vandale	NM01	358	Nylands Mek. Verkst., Oslo		1941	8.1941	sunk 27.2.1942
Polarnacht	V5904	359	Nylands Mek. Verkst., Oslo		1941	9.1941	surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1947
Westwind	V5910, 5.1944- V6314	360	Nylands Mek. Verkst., Oslo		1942	7.1942	surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 1947
Wappen von Hamburg (ex-Magerøy)	NSa07, 5.1944- V6607	361	Nylands Mek. Verkst., Oslo		1942	12.1942	lost 9.3.1945
Varanger	V5905	362	Nylands Mek. Verkst., Oslo		1942	8.1943	surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1947
Rotges	NKi08, 7.1944- V6701	363	Nylands Mek. Verkst., Oslo		1943	1944	surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1947

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	512
Displacement full, t	711
Length, m	39.8 wl 44.8 oa
Breadth, m	8.23
Draught, m	3.32 normal 4.15 deep load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	1300
Max speed, kts	12
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Steiermark, Felix Scheder, Vandale, Polarnacht: 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 DCR Westwind, Wappen von Hamburg, Varanger, Rotges: 1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, (1 - 2) x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 DCR
Complement	53

Standard scale images

Project history

Whalers, laid down on order of Norwegian and Argentinian companies but purchased by Kriegsmarine during building and commissioned as patrols.

Modernizations

1942, all survived and completed were armed with 1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, (1 - 2) x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 DCR.

Naval service

V5307 was bombed by British aircraft E off Stadlandet. NM01 was torpedoed by Soviet submarine Shch-402 27.2.1942 N off Svaerholtklubben. V6606 was lost by unknown cause 9.3.1945.