Eisvogel class icebreaker
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The Type 721 Eisvogel class icebreakers is a two ship class built for the German Navy by the Hitzler Werft shipyard of Lauenburg/Elbe. One of the icebreakers is still in service.
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[edit] Specifications
- Length: 38.85m
- Width: 9.7m
- Draft: 3.72m
- Displacement: 560t
- Propulsion:
- 2 Maybach MD655 diesel engines, together 1765kW at 1400 rpm
- single controlled-pitch propeller, 3m diameter
- Speed: 14kts
- Armament: none, a 40mm anti-aircraft gun was temporarily installed
- Equippement: 140t Hitzler pitching device (for icebreaking)
[edit] List of Ships
| Pennant number |
Name | Call sign |
Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate/Base |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1401 | Eisvogel | DRLG | 1961 | March 11, 1961 | Kiel | |
| A1402 | Eisbär | 1961 | November 1, 1961 | October 30, 1997 | scrapped |
The ships are named after the European Kingfisher (Eisvogel) and Polar Bear (Eisbär), both names contain the German word for ice.
[edit] References
- Special Vessels - Hitzler Werft's webpage about special ships built by them, including the Eisvogel class
[edit] See also
| Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
