NAVYPEDIA

Ships

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, t	914
Displacement full, t	1100
Length, m	65.6
Breadth, m	9.82
Draught, m	5.40
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	1200
Max speed, kts	13.2
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	2500(12)
Armament	4 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 1 - 25/80 84KM
Electronic equipment	radar
Complement	56 + 56 cadets

Standard scale images

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.