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

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Wodan			Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven		1877	1877	discarded 1924
Balder			Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven	5.1878	1878	8.1879	minelayer 1910, captured by Germany 5.1940, BU
Braga			Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven	1877	1878	6.1879	minesweeper 1913, river gunboat 1914, wrecked 15.5.1940
Freyr			Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven	2.1877	9.7.1877	11.1877	scuttled 14.5.1940
Heimdall			Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven		1879	1879	subsidiary service 1918
Njord			Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven		1878	1878	stricken 1925
Thor			Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven	9.1876	31.3.1877	11.1877	minelayer 1918, captured by Germany 14.5.1940
Tyr			Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven	10.1877	1878	11.1878	captured by Germany 14.5.1940 (Tyr)
Vidar		102	Fijenoord, Schiedam	8.1878	15.2.1879	7.1879	minelayer 1915, captured by Germany 18.5.1940
Vali		103	Fijenoord, Schiedam		1879	1879	subsidiary service 1909
Hefring		107	Fijenoord, Schiedam	4.1879	16.9.1879	4.1880	TS 1907, scuttled 14.5.1940
Bulgia			Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven	3.1879	4.12.1879	10.1884	minelayer 1925, sunk 12.5.1940
Dufa			Rijkswerf Amsterdam		1879	1879	discarded 1913
Hadda			Rijkswerf Amsterdam	1879	1879	5.1880	minelayer 1909, captured by Germany 14.5.1940
Udur			Rijkswerf Amsterdam		1879	1879	TS 1903, subsidiary service 1914
Ulfr			Rijkswerf Amsterdam		1879	1879	subsidiary service 1903

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	264 - 280
Displacement full, t
Length, m	27.8
Breadth, m	8.20
Draught, m	2.30
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VCE, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	101 - 171
Max speed, kts	7 - 8.3
Fuel, t	coal 35
Endurance, nm(kts)	960(6)
Armament	1 x 1 - 283/20 Krupp No.1, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss
Complement	34

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Project history

Gunboats of so-called "Rendell" type. From the middle of 1920th they were used mainly on the rivers on the German-Dutch border. One of the oldest combat ships in the world, still were in commission to the Second World War beginning.

Modernizations

1890s, Bulgia, Dufa, Hadda, Hefring, Udur: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + 1 x 1 - 283/27 Krupp No.2

1908, Wodan: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + 1 x 1 - 120/37 Krupp No.1

1909, Hadda; 1910, Balder; 1915, Vidar: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + mines

1913, Braga: + mechanical minesweeping gear

1914, Braga: - minesweeping gear

1918, Thor: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + 1 x 1 - 149/37 Krupp Nr.5, mines

1925, Bulgia: - 1 x 1 - 283/27; + mines

1920s, Braga: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + 1 x 1 - 120/37 Krupp No.1

1920s, Freyr: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + 1 x 1 - 75/37 Krupp Nr.3

1920s, Tyr: - 1 x 1 - 283/20

1920s, Hefring: - 1 x 1 - 283/27; + 1 x 1 - 120/37 Krupp No.1.2.3

Naval service

Braga 15.5.1940 ran aground on river Waal and subsequently was broken up. Freyr was scuttled at Amsterdam 14.5.1940; raised by Germans, in September, 1944 scuttled as breakwater at Den Helder; raised again and broken up in 1947. Hefring was scuttled at Amsterdam 14.5.1940; raised by Germans 23.9.1940 and then, under one source, used as guard ship, but under another one was broen up. Tyr was captured by Germans 14.5.1940 on river Waal and commissioned by Kriegsmarine as auxiliary minelayer under own name; she was abandoned in 1945 and broken up after war. Bulgia 12.5.1940 was sunk by German aircraft; raised by Germans 31.7.1940 and BU.

Thor was captured by Germans at Den Helder 14.5.1940 and sunk by British aircraft at Vlissingen in February, 1941. Balder, Hadda and Vidar were captured by Germans and broken up.



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