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BOCHUM minelayers (1944 - 1945 / 1964)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bochum (ex-Rice County, ex-LST1089) N120 (ex-A1404)   American Bridge, Pittsburgh, USA 12.1944 17.2.1945 3.1945 // 9.4.1964 stricken 9.1971, to Turkey (Sancaktar)
Bottrop (ex-Saline County, ex-LST1101) N121 (ex-A1405)   Missouri Valley Bridge, Evansville, USA 11.1944 3.1.1945 1.1945 // 6.2.1964 stricken 9.1971, to Turkey (Bayraktar)
Bamberg (ex-Greer County, ex-LST799) A1403   Jeffersonville, USA 8.1944 3.10.1944 10.1944 // --- sold 1970


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

3640

Displacement full, t4140
Length, m

96.3 wl 101.4 oa

Breadth, m

15.3

Draught, m

3.98 max

No of shafts2
Machinery

2 General Motors 12-567A diesels

Power, h. p.

1700

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

diesel oil 590

Endurance, nm(kts)15000 (9)
Armament

2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, mines

Electronic equipmentKelvin Highes 14/9 radar
Complement60


Standard scale images


<i>Bochum </i>1965
Bochum 1965


Project history

In 1960 a total of seven US wartime LST type tank landing ships was purchased and in the summer of 1961 they arrived with German crews at Wilhelmshaven. Two were converted into the Type 726 maintenance ships Odin and Wodan. The planned conversion of two more to maintenance ships was dropped and both were sold for scrapping. Three units arrived at Wilhelmshaven with the pennants A1403-1405 were converted to Type 370 minelayers in 1962. During this conversion the bow ramp was removed and the bow doors welded up. Superstructure and interior equipment was adapted for the future use, six rails with launching ramps were fixed on the deck, the platform and lower deck also had minerails and two launching ramps with hatches. Bochum and Bottrop came into service in 1964. The conversion of Bamberg was 60% finished when this was stopped and the ship was sold for scrap.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.