Albatros class fast attack craft
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The Type 143 Albatros class was a German class of missile bearing Fast Attack Craft.
[edit] Specifications
- Length: 57.8m
- Beam: 7.8m
- Draft: 2.6m
- Displacement: 398t
- Propulsion: 13.235kW
- Speed: 40kts
- Armament:
- 2 OTO-Melara 76mm gun
- 4 MM38 Exocet anti-ship missiles
- 2 torpedo tubes (not used)
- Countermeasures:
- Complement: 40
[edit] List of ships
NATO pennant number |
German pennant number |
Name | Callsign | Com- missioned |
Decom- missioned |
State |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
P6111 | S61 | Albatros | DRBU | November 1, 1976 | March 24, 2005 | |
P6112 | S62 | Falke | DRBV | April 13, 1976 | December 16, 2004 | |
P6113 | S63 | Geier | DRBW | July 2, 1976 | decommissioned | |
P6114 | S64 | Bussard | DRBX | August 14, 1976 | March 24, 2005 | |
P6115 | S65 | Sperber | DRBY | September 27, 1976 | July 4, 2005 | Sold to Tunisia, 506 Hamilcar |
P6116 | S66 | Greif | DRBZ | November 25, 1976 | July 4, 2005 | Sold to Tunisia, 505 Hannon' |
P6117 | S67 | Kondor | DRCA | December 17, 1976 | December 16, 2004 | |
P6118 | S68 | Seeadler | DRCB | March 28, 1977 | decommissioned | |
P6119 | S69 | Habicht | DRCC | December 23, 1977 | December 13, 2005 | Sold to Tunisia, Hasdrubal |
P6120 | S70 | Kormoran | DRCD | July 18, 1977 | December 13, 2005 | Sold to Tunisia, Giscon |
The boats are named after the birds of prey.
S61—S65 were part of the 2. Schnellbootgeschwader (Fast attack craft squadron), and S66—S70 belonged to the 7. Schnellbootgeschwader. Both squadrons were based in Warnemünde.
[edit] See also
Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine | |
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Destroyers | 101A Hamburg | 103B Lütjens |
Frigates and Corvettes | 122 Bremen | 123 Brandenburg | 124 Sachsen | F125 | 130 Braunschweig |
Fast Attack Craft | 143 Albatros | 143A Gepard | 148 Tiger |
Mine warfare | 332 Frankenthal | 333 Kulmbach | 352 Ensdorf | 742A Mühlhausen |
Submarines | 205B | 206A | 212A |
Auxiliary ships | 404 Elbe | 423 Oste | 441 Gorch Fock | 520 Barbe | 702 Berlin | 703 Walchensee | 704 Rhön | 720 Helgoland | 721 Eisvogel | 722 Wangerooge | 760 Westerwald |
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