List of naval ship classes of Germany

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The list of naval ship classes of Germany includes all classes of naval ships produced or operated in Germany from the late 19th Century to modern day.

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[edit] Aircraft carriers

[edit] Graf Zeppelin class

  • Displacement: 23,200 tons
  • Armament: 16 x 15 cm guns, 10 x 10.5 cm guns, 22 x 3.7 cm AA guns, 28 x 2 cm AA guns
  • Aircraft: Up to 37, including Me.109T, Ju.87C, and Fi.167
  • Performance: Speed 35 knots; Range 8,000 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Graf Zeppelin and Flugzeugträger B
  • Service: Neither vessel was commissioned into service

[edit] Surface combatants

[edit] Battleships (Schlachtschiff)

See list of battleships of Germany for detailed listings

[edit] Battlecruisers (Schlachtkreuzer)

See list of battleships of Germany for detailed listings

[edit] Monitors (Küstenpanzerschiffe)

[edit] Siegfried class

  • Displacement: 3,740 tons
  • Armament: 3 x 24 cm guns; 10 x 8.8 cm guns; 4 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 530 mm belt; 200 mm turret; 50 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 15 knots; Range 1,490 miles at 10 knots
  • Ships in class: 3: Siegfried, Beowulf, Frithjof, Heimdall, Hildebrand, Hagen, Odin, and Ägir
  • Service: Commissioned 1890 to 1896

[edit] Heavy cruisers (Schwerer Kreuzer)

[edit] Admiral Hipper class

Blücher
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Blücher
  • Displacement: 18,200 tons (18,400 tons for Prinz Eugen)
  • Armament: 8 x 20 cm (8") guns; 12 x 10.5 cm guns; 6 x 4 cm AA guns; 8 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 32 x 2 cm AA guns; 12 x 53 cm (21") torpedo tubes (Prinz Eugen shipped 17 x 4 cm guns, 28 x 2 cm guns, and no 3.7 cm guns)
  • Armor: 80 mm belt; 105 mm turret; 50 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 32 knots; Range 8,000 miles at 20 knots (Prinz Eugen speed was 33 knots and range was 7,200 miles at 20 knots)
  • Ships in class: 5: Admiral Hipper, Blücher, Prinz Eugen, Seydlitz, and Lützow
  • Service: Three ships completed, commissioned 1939 to 1940, two lost in WWII

[edit] Blücher

SMS Blücher
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SMS Blücher
  • Displacement: 17,500 tons
  • Armament: 12 x 21 cm guns; 8 x 15 cm guns; 16 x 8.8 cm guns; 4 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 180 mm belt; 180 mm turret; 70 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 26 knots; Range 6,600 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1909, sunk 1915

[edit] Deutschland class

  • Displacement: 14,500 tons
  • Armament: 6 x 28 cm (11") guns; 8 x 15 cm guns; 6 x 8.8 cm guns; 8 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 8 x 2 cm AA guns; 8 x 53 cm (21") torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 80 mm belt; 140 mm turret; 40 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 28 knots; Range 18,650 miles at 15 knots
  • Ships in class: 3: Deutschland (renamed Lützow), Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee
  • Service: Commissioned 1933 to 1936, both lost during WWII

[edit] Scharnhorst class

SMS Scharnhorst
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SMS Scharnhorst
  • Displacement: 12,985 tons
  • Armament: 8 x 21 cm guns; 6 x 15 cm guns; 18 x 8.8 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm guns; 4 x machineguns; 4 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 150 mm belt; 170 mm turret; 70 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 23 knots; Range 5,120 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Scharnhorst and Gniesenau
  • Service: Commissioned 1907 to 1908, both lost in WWI at the Battle of the Falkland Islands

[edit] Fürst Bismarck

  • Displacement: 11,460 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 24 cm guns; 12 x 15 cm guns; 10 x 8.8 cm guns; 4 x machineguns; 6 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 200 mm belt; 200 mm turret; 50 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 18 knots; Range 4,560 miles at 10 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1900

[edit] Roon class

  • Displacement: 10,266 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 21 cm guns; 10 x 15 cm guns; 14 x 8.8 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm guns; 4 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 100 mm belt; 150 mm turret; 60 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 21 knots; Range 4,200 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Roon and Yorck
  • Service: Commissioned 1905 to 1906, one lost in WWI

[edit] Prinz Adalbert class

  • Displacement: 9,800 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 21 cm guns; 10 x 15 cm guns; 12 x 8.8 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm guns; 4 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 100 mm belt; 150 mm turret; 60 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 20 knots; Range 4,200 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Prinz Adalbert and Friedrich Carl
  • Service: Commissioned 1903 to 1904, both lost in WWI

[edit] Prinz Heinrich

  • Displacement: 9,800 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 24 cm guns; 10 x 15 cm guns; 10 x 8.8 cm guns; 10 x 3.7 cm guns; 4 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 100 mm turret; 50 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 20 knots; Range 4,580 miles at 10 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1902

[edit] Victoria Louise class

SMS Herta
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SMS Herta
  • Displacement: 6,790 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 21 cm (8") guns; 6 x 15 cm guns; 10 x 8.8 cm guns; 4 x machineguns; 5 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 100 mm turret; 100 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 19 knots; Range 3,400 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 5: Victoria Louise, Herta, Freya, Vineta, and Hansa
  • Service: Commissioned 1899

[edit] Kaiserin Augusta

  • Displacement: 6,300 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 15 cm guns; 6 x 10 cm guns; 5 x 35 cm torpedo tubes (1896 modification added 8 x 15 cm guns and 8 x 8.8 cm guns, removed all 10 cm guns; 1916 modification added 4 x 10 cm guns and 1 x 8.8 cm gun, removed 11 x 15 cm guns and all torpedo tubes)
  • Armor: 70 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 21 knots; Range 3,240 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1895

[edit] Light cruisers (Leichter Kreuzer)

[edit] Leipzig class

  • Displacement: 8,400 tons (9,000 tons for Nürnberg)
  • Armament: 9 x 15 cm (6") guns; 6 x 8.8 cm guns; 8 x 3.7 cm guns; 4 x 2 cm guns; 12 x 53 cm (21") torpedo tubes; 120 mines (Nürnberg shipped an additional 2 x 8.8 cm guns and 2 x 4 cm AA guns)
  • Aircraft: 2 catapult launched Arado Ar 196
  • Armor: 50 mm belt; 30 mm turret; 20 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 32 knots; Range 5,700 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Leipzig and Nürnberg
  • Service: Commissioned 1931 and 1935, Leipzig damaged in 1944 in collision and reduced to flaskship, both survived WWII

[edit] K class

Köln
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Köln
  • Displacement: 7,700 tons
  • Armament: 9 x 15 cm (6") guns; 2 x 8.8 cm guns; 12 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 120 mines (1934 modification added 8 x 3.7 cm AA guns and replaced torpedoes with 53 cm tubes; 1940 modification added 4 x 8.8 cm guns; 1945 modification added 10 x 2 cm AA guns)
  • Armor: 70 mm belt; 20 mm turret; 40 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 32 knots; Range 7,300 miles at 17 knots
  • Ships in class: 3: Königsberg, Köln, Karlsruhe
  • Service: Commissioned 1929 to 1930, all lost in WWII

[edit] Cöln II class

  • Displacement: 7,485 tons
  • Armament: 8 x 15 cm guns; 3 x 8.8 cm guns; 4 x 60 cm torpedo tubes; 200 mines
  • Performance: Speed 29 knots; Range 6,000 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 10: Cöln II, Wiesbaden II, Dresden II, Magdeburg II, Leipzig II, Rostock II, Frauenlob II, Ersatz Cöln, Ersatz Emden, and Ersatz Karlsruhe
  • Service: Seven launched, two commissioned 1918, both scuttled at Scapa Flow

[edit] Königsberg II class

  • Displacement: 7,125 tons
  • Armament: 8 x 15 cm guns; 2 x 8.8 cm guns; 4 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 200 mines
  • Armor: 60 mm belt; 40 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 28 knots; Range 4,850 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 4: Königsberg II, Emden II, Karlsruhe II, and Nürnberg II
  • Service: Commissioned 1916 to 1917, two scuttled at Scapa Flow

[edit] Emden

  • Displacement: 7,100 tons
  • Armament: 8 x 15 cm (6") guns; 3 x 8.8 cm guns; 6 x 2 cm AA guns; 4 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 120 mines (1944 modification replaced 8.8 cm guns with 10.5 cm guns, added 2 x 3.7 cm AA guns and 14 x 2 cm AA guns, and replaced torpedoes with 53 cm (21") tubes)
  • Armor: 50 mm belt; 40 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 29 knots; Range 6,750 miles at 14 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1925, damaged by bombing April 1945, scuttled May 1945

[edit] Graudenz class

  • Displacement: 6,380 tons
  • Armament: 12 x 10.5 cm guns; 2 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 120 mines (1915 modification replaced 10.5 cm guns with 7 x 15 cm guns and added 2 x 8.8 cm guns and 2 x 50 cm tubes)
  • Armor: 60 mm belt; 40 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 27 knots; Range 5,500 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Graudenz and Regensburg
  • Service: Commissioned 1914 to 1915, one lost in WWII

[edit] Karlsruhe class

  • Displacement: 6,190 tons
  • Armament: 12 x 10.5 cm guns; 2 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 60 mm belt; 60 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 28 knots; Range 5,000 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Karlsruhe and Rostock
  • Service: Commissioned 1914, both lost in WWI

[edit] Brummer class

  • Displacement: 5,850 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 15 cm guns; 2 x 8.8 cm guns; 2 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 400 mines
  • Armor: 38 mm belt; 16 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 28 knots; Range 5,800 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Brummer and Bremse
  • Service: Commissioned 1916, both scuttled at Scapa Flow

[edit] Pillau class

SMS Elbing
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SMS Elbing
  • Displacement: 5,250 tons
  • Armament: 8 x 15 cm guns; 4 x 5.2 cm guns; 2 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 120 mines
  • Armor: 80 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 27 knots; Range 4,300 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Pillau and Elbing
  • Service: Commissioned 1914 to 1915, one lost in WWI, one lost in WWII

[edit] Wiesbaden class

  • Displacement: 5,200 tons
  • Armament: 8 x 15 cm guns; 4 x 5.2 cm guns; 4 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 120 mines
  • Armor: 60 mm belt; 40 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 27 knots; Range 4,800 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Wiesbaden and Frankfurt
  • Service: Commissioned 1915, one lost in WWI

[edit] Kolberg class

  • Displacement: 4,900 tons
  • Armament: 12 x 10.5 cm guns; 4 x 5.2 cm guns; 2 x 45 cm torpedo tubes; 100 mines (1917 modification replaced 10.5 cm guns with 6 x 15 cm guns and 2 x 8.8 cm guns)
  • Armor: 50 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 26 knots; Range 3,250 miles at 14 knots
  • Ships in class: 4: Kolberg, Augsburg, Cöln, and Mainz
  • Service: Commissioned 1909 to 1911, two lost in WWI

[edit] Magdeburg class

SMS Breslau
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SMS Breslau
  • Displacement: 4,570 tons
  • Armament: 12 x 10.5 cm guns; 2 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 120 mines
  • Armor: 60 mm belt; 40 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 27 knots; Range 5,820 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 4: Magdeburg, Breslau, Stralsund, and Straßburg
  • Service: Commissioned 1912, two lost in WWI

[edit] Gefion

  • Displacement: 4,275 tons
  • Armament: 10 x 10.5 cm guns; 6 x 5 cm guns; 2 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 20 knots; Range 3,500 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1894

[edit] Dresden class

SMS Emden
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SMS Emden
  • Displacement: 4,250 tons
  • Armament: 10 x 10.5 cm guns; 10 x machineguns; 2 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 100 mm belt; 25 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 25 knots; Range 3,600 miles at 14 knots
  • Ships in class: 3: Dresden, and Emden
  • Service: Commissioned 1908 to 1909, both lost in WWI

[edit] Stettin class

SMS Königsberg
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SMS Königsberg
  • Displacement: 3,800 tons
  • Armament: 10 x 10.5 cm guns; 8 x 5.2 cm guns; 2 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Armor: 50 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 25 knots; Range 4,170 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 4: Königsberg, Nürnberg, Stettin, and Stuttgart
  • Service: Commissioned 1904 to 1907, two lost in WWI

[edit] Bremen class

  • Displacement: 3,700 tons
  • Armament: 10 x 10.5 cm guns; 2 x 45 cm torpedo tubes (1916 modification added 2 x 15 cm guns and removed 4 x 10.5 cm guns)
  • Armor: 50 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 23 knots; Range 4,690 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 7: Bremen, Berlin, Danzig, Hamburg, Leipzig, München, and Lübeck
  • Service: Commissioned 1904 to 1907, two lost in WWI, one lost in WWII

[edit] Gazelle class

  • Displacement: 2,900 tons
  • Armament: 10 x 10.5 cm guns; 14 x machineguns; 3 x 45 cm torpedo tubes; 120 mines
  • Armor: 25 mm deck
  • Performance: Speed 20 knots; Range 3,570 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 10: Gazelle, Niobe, Nymphe, Thetis, Ariadne, Amazone, Medusa, Frauenlob, Arcona, and Undine
  • Service: Commissioned 1900 to 1904, three lost in WWI, two lost in WWII

[edit] Greif

  • Displacement: 2,266 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 10.5 cm guns; 8 x 8.8 cm guns; 10 x 3.7 cm revolving cannon
  • Performance: Speed 20 knots; Range 3,500 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1887

[edit] Hela

  • Displacement: 2,080 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 8.8 cm guns; 6 x 5 cm guns; 3 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 20 knots; Range 3,000 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1896, sunk 1914

[edit] Bussard class

  • Displacement: 1,860 tons
  • Armament: 8 x 10.5 cm guns; 5 x revolver cannon; 2 x 35 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 17 knots; Range 3,040 miles at 9 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Seeadler and Condor
  • Service: Commissioned 1892 to 1893, one lost in WWI

[edit] Destroyers (Zerstörer)

[edit] Lütjens class (Type 103)

D185 Lütjens
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D185 Lütjens
  • Displacement: 4,720 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 127 mm guns; 2 x 20 mm autocannon; 1 x Mark 13 launcher with 40 missiles; 2 x Mark 49 launchers with 42 missiles; 6 x 324 mm torpedo tubes; 1 x ASROC launcher with 8 rockets
  • Performance: Speed 32 knots
  • Ships in class: 3: D185 Lütjens, D186 Mölders, and D187 Rommel
  • Service: Commissioned from 1969, last decommissioned 2003

[edit] Hamburg class (Type 101)

  • Displacement: 4,360 tons
  • Armament: 3 x 100 mm DP guns; 4 x twin 40 mm AA guns; 2 x twin MM38 Exocet launchers; 4 x 533 mm torpedo tubes; 2 x quad 375 mm anti submarine rocket launchers; 10 x depth charges; 90 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 35 knots; Range 3,400 miles at 18 knots
  • Ships in class: 4: D181 Hamburg, D182 Schleswig-Holstein, D183 Bayern, and D184 Hessen
  • Service: Commissioned from 1964, last decommissioned 1994, all scrapped

[edit] Type 1936C

  • Displacement: 3,680 tons
  • Armament: 6 x 12.8 cm DP guns; 6 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 14 x 2 cm AA guns; 6 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 60 mines; 4 x depth charge launchers
  • Performance: Speed 37 knots; Range 2,500 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Service: Neither completed

[edit] Type 1936A

  • Displacement: 3,600 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 12.7 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 5 x 2 cm AA guns; 8 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 60 mines; 4 x depth charge launchers
  • Performance: Speed 37 knots; Range 2,175 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 8 (Z23 to Z30)
  • Service: Commissioned 1940 to 1941, 4 lost in WWII, last scrapped 1958

[edit] Type 1936A (Mob)

  • Displacement: 3,590 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 12.7 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 12 x 2 cm AA guns; 8 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 60 mines; 4 x depth charge launchers
  • Performance: Speed 37 knots; Range 2,240 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 7 (Z31 to Z34 and Z37 to Z39)
  • Service: Commissioned 1942 to 1943, 2 lost in WWII, last scrapped 1964

[edit] Type 1936B

  • Displacement: 3,540 tons
  • Armament: 5 x 12.7 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 16 x 2 cm AA guns; 8 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 76 mines; 4 x depth charge launchers
  • Performance: Speed 36 knots; Range 2,600 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 5 (Z35, Z36, and Z43 to Z45)
  • Service: Three ships commissioned 1943 to 1944, all lost in WWII

[edit] Type 1936

  • Displacement: 3,400 tons
  • Armament: 5 x 12.7 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 4 x 2 cm AA guns; 8 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 60 mines; 4 x depth charge launchers
  • Performance: Speed 40 knots; Range 2,050 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 6 (Z17 to Z22)
  • Service: Commissioned 1938 to 1939, 5 lost in WWII, survivor scrapped 1956

[edit] Type 1934

  • Displacement: 3,150 tons
  • Armament: 5 x 12.7 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 6 x 2 cm AA guns; 8 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 60 mines
  • Performance: Speed 36 knots; Range 1,900 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 4 (Z1 to Z4)
  • Service: Commissioned 1937, three sunk 1940, survivor scrapped 1947

[edit] Type 1934A

  • Displacement: 3,110 tons
  • Armament: 5 x 12.7 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 6 x 2 cm AA guns; 8 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 60 mines
  • Performance: Speed 36 knots; Range 2,040 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 12 (Z5 to Z16)
  • Service: Commissioned 1937 to 1939, 7 lost in WWII, last scrapped 1958

[edit] Type 1942

  • Displacement: 2,720 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 12.7 cm guns; 8 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 12 x 2 cm AA guns; 6 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 50 mines
  • Performance: Speed 36 knots; Range 5,500 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 1 (Z51)
  • Service: Launched but never commissioned

[edit] Flottentorpedoboot

  • Displacement: 2,587 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 12.7 cm gun; 4 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 16 x 2 cm AA guns; 8 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 50 mines; 4 x depth charge launchers
  • Performance: Speed 35 knots; Range 2,350 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 3
  • Service: None commissioned

[edit] Type 1916

  • Displacement: 2,415 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 15 cm gun; 4 x machineguns; 4 x 60 cm torpedo tube; 40 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 37 knots; Range 2,500 miles at 20 knots
  • Ships in class: 12 (S113 to S115, V116 to V118, G119 to G121, and B122 to B124)
  • Service: 11 launched, 2 commissioned 1918 to 1919, all scrapped by 1939

[edit] Fletcher class (Type 119)

USS Fletcher
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USS Fletcher
  • Displacement: 2,050 tons
  • Armament: 5 x 5" guns; 10 x 40 mm AA guns; 10 x 20 mm AA guns; 2 x quintuple 21" torpedo tubes; 6 x depth charge launchers; 2 x depth charge racks
  • Performance: Speed 36 knots
  • Ships in class: 6
  • Service: Ex USN WW2 destroyers, commissioned from 1959, last decommissioned 1981

[edit] Torpedobootzertörer

  • Displacement: 1,843 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 10.5 cm guns; 4 x 8.8 cm guns; 6 x 45 cm torpedo tubes; 12 mines
  • Performance: Speed 37 knots; Range 2,620 miles at 20 knots
  • Ships in class: 8 (B97, B98, V99, V100, and B109 to B112)
  • Service: Commissioned 1915, one lost in WWI, five scuttled at Scapa Flow

[edit] Submarines (Unterseeboot)

[edit] Fleet and attack submarines

Type 212
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Type 212

[edit] Type 212

  • Displacement: 1,830 tons submerged
  • Armament: 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 12 x torpedoes; 24 x mines external
  • Performance: Speed 20 knots submerged; Range 420 miles at 8 knots submerged, 8,000 miles at 8 knots surfaced; Depth 250 m
  • Ships in class: 4 (U31 to U34)
  • Commissioned: Three commissioned from 2005 plus one building

[edit] Type XXI

  • Displacement: 1,819 tons submerged
  • Armament: 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 23 x torpedoes or 12 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 17 knots submerged; Range 340 miles at 5 knots submerged, 15,500 miles at 10 knots surfaced
  • Ships in class: 118 (U2501 to U2531, U2533 to U2536, U2538 to U2546, U2548, U2551, U2552, U3001 to U3035, U3037 to U3041, U3044, and U3501 to U3530)
  • Commissioned: 1944
  • Fate: Few were ever launched, and all were captured by Allied Forces at the end of the Second world war.

[edit] Type XVIII

  • Displacement: 1,652 tons submerged
  • Armament: 23 x torpedoes
  • Performance: Speed 24 knots submerged; Range 202 miles at 24 knots submerged, 3,000 miles at 17 knots surfaced
  • Ships in class: 2 (U796 and U797)
  • Commissioned: None
  • Fate: Cancelled while building March 1944

[edit] Type IXD

  • Displacement: 1,232 tons submerged
  • Armament: 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 24 x torpedoes or 48 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 7 knots submerged; Range 57 miles at 4 knots submerged, 23,700 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 230 m
  • Ships in class: 30 (U177 to U182, U195 to U200, U847 to U852, U859 to U864, and U871 to U876
  • Commissioned: 1942
  • Fate:

[edit] Type IXC/40

  • Displacement: 1,232 tons submerged
  • Armament: 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 22 x torpedoes or 44 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 7 knots submerged; Range 63 miles at 4 knots submerged, 13,850 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 230 m
  • Ships in class: 87 (U167 to U170, U183 to U194, U525 to U550, U801 to U806, U841 to U846, U853 to U858, U865 to U870, U877 to U881, U889, and U1221 to U1235)
  • Commissioned: 1942
  • Fate:

[edit] Type IXC

  • Displacement: 1,232 tons submerged
  • Armament: 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 22 x torpedoes or 44 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 7 knots submerged; Range 63 miles at 4 knots submerged, 13,450 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 230 m
  • Ships in class: 54 (U66 to U68, U125 to U131, U153 to U166, U171 to U176, and U501 to U524)
  • Commissioned: 1941
  • Fate:

[edit] Type IXB

  • Displacement: 1,178 tons submerged
  • Armament: 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 22 (32) x torpedoes or 44 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 8 knots submerged; Range 78 miles at 4 knots submerged, 10,500 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 230 m
  • Ships in class: 14 (U64, U65, U103 to U111, and U122 to U124)
  • Commissioned: 1939
  • Fate:

[edit] Type IX

  • Displacement: 1,152 tons submerged
  • Armament: 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 22 (32) x torpedoes or 44 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 8 knots submerged; Range 78 miles at 4 knots submerged, 10,500 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 230 m
  • Ships in class: 8 (U37 to U44)
  • Commissioned: 1938
  • Fate: Six sunk in WWII

[edit] Type VIIC/42

  • Displacement: 1,099 tons submerged
  • Armament: 5 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 16 x torpedoes or 26 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 8 knots submerged; Range 80 miles at 4 knots submerged, 12,600 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 270 m
  • Ships in class: 164 ordered
  • Commissioned: None
  • Fate: All contracts cancelled 1943

[edit] Type IA

  • Displacement: 983 tons submerged
  • Armament: 1 x 10.5 cm deck gun; 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 14 x torpedoes or 28 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 8 knots submerged; Range 78 miles at 4 knots submerged, 7,900 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 200 m
  • Ships in class: 2 (U25, U26)
  • Commissioned: 1936
  • Fate: Both sunk 1940

[edit] Type VIIC/41

  • Displacement: 871 tons submerged
  • Armament: 1 x 8.8 cm deck gun; 5 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 14 x torpedoes or 26 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 8 knots submerged; Range 80 miles at 4 knots submerged, 8,500 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 250 m
  • Ships in class: 91
  • Commissioned: 1943
  • Fate:

[edit] Type VIIC

  • Displacement: 871 tons submerged
  • Armament: 1 x 8.8 cm deck gun; 5 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 14 x torpedoes or 26 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 8 knots submerged; Range 80 miles at 4 knots submerged, 8,500 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 220 m
  • Ships in class: 568
  • Commissioned: 1941
  • Fate:

[edit] Type VIIB

  • Displacement: 857 tons submerged
  • Armament: 1 x 8.8 cm deck gun; 5 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 14 x torpedoes or 26 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 8 knots submerged; Range 90 miles at 4 knots submerged, 8,700 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 220 m
  • Ships in class: 24 (U45 to U55, U73 to U76, U83 to U87, and U99 to U102)
  • Commissioned: 1938
  • Fate:

[edit] Type VIIA

  • Displacement: 745 tons submerged
  • Armament: 1 x 8.8 cm deck gun; 5 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 11 x torpedoes or 22 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 8 knots submerged; Range 94 miles at 4 knots submerged, 6,200 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 220 m
  • Ships in class: 10 (U27 to U36)
  • Commissioned: 1936
  • Fate: All lost during WWII

[edit] Coastal submarines

[edit] Type 209

  • Displacement: 500 tons submerged
  • Armament: 8 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 8 x torpedoes; 4 x mines external
  • Performance: Speed 17 knots submerged; Range 228 miles at 4 knots submerged, 4,500 miles at 6 knots surfaced; Depth 100 m
  • Ships in class: 18 (U13 to U30)
  • Commissioned: 1973
  • Fate: 10 remain in active service
U 9 as a museum ship
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U 9 as a museum ship

[edit] Type 205

  • Displacement: 500 tons submerged
  • Armament: 8 x 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 17 knots submerged; Range 228 miles at 4 knots submerged, 4,200 miles at 5 knots surfaced
  • Ships in class: 11 (U1, U2, U4 to U11)
  • Commissioned: 1963
  • Fate: Decommissioned 2005

[edit] Type 201

  • Displacement: 450 tons submerged
  • Armament: 8 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 8 x torpedoes or 16 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 17 knots submerged
  • Ships in class: 4 (U1 to U4)
  • Commissioned: 1962
  • Fate: Decommissioned by 1967 for rebuilding to Type 205A standard

[edit] Type IID

  • Displacement: 364 tons submerged
  • Armament: 3 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 5 x torpedoes or 12 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 7 knots submerged; Range 56 miles at 4 knots submerged, 5,650 miles at 8 knots surfaced; Depth 150 m
  • Ships in class: 16 (U137 to U152)
  • Commissioned: 1939

[edit] Type IIC

  • Displacement: 341 tons submerged
  • Armament: 3 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 5 x torpedoes or 12 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 7 knots submerged; Range 42 miles at 4 knots submerged, 3,800 miles at 8 knots surfaced; Depth 150 m
  • Ships in class: 8 (U56 to U63)
  • Commissioned: 1937

[edit] Type IIB

  • Displacement: 328 tons submerged
  • Armament: 3 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 5 x torpedoes or 12 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 7 knots submerged; Range 43 miles at 4 knots submerged, 3,100 miles at 8 knots surfaced; Depth 150 m
  • Ships in class: 20 (U7 to U24, U120, U121)
  • Commissioned: 1935

[edit] Type IIA

  • Displacement: 303 tons submerged
  • Armament: 3 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 5 x torpedoes or 12 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 7 knots submerged; Range 35 miles at 4 knots submerged, 1,600 miles at 8 knots surfaced; Depth 150 m
  • Ships in class: 6 (U1 to U6)
  • Commissioned: 1935
  • Fate: Three lost in WWII, survivors stricken 1944

[edit] Type XXIII

  • Displacement: 258 tons submerged
  • Armament: 2 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 2 x torpedoes
  • Performance: Speed 12 knots submerged; Range 194 miles at 4 knots submerged, 2,600 miles at 8 knots surfaced
  • Ships in class: 61 (U2321 to U2369, U2371, U4701 to U4707, and U4709 to U4712)
  • Commissioned: 1944
  • Fate: 7 lost in WWII

[edit] Special purpose submarines

[edit] Type UC-90 (or UC-III) long-range mine laying submarine

  • Displacement: 571 tons submerged
  • Armament: 3 x 533 mm torpedo tubes; 1 x 3.4 in gun; and 14 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 11.5 knots surfaced; 6.6 knots submerged
  • Ships in class: UC-97 and ???
  • Commissioned: never commissioned
  • Fate: launched on 17 March 1918; sunk 7 June 1921 in target practice by the USS Wilmette in Lake Michigan about 20 miles east of Highland Park, IL.

[edit] Type UE-II long-range mine laying submarine

  • Displacement: 2,177 tons submerged
  • Armament:  ??? and mines
  • Performance:
  • Ships in class: U-117 and ???
  • Commissioned: 28 March 1918
  • Fate: U-117 sunk in 1919 as a target in tests by Billy Mitchell.

[edit] Type XB mine laying submarine

  • Displacement: 2,177 tons submerged
  • Armament: 2 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 15 x torpedoes and 66 x SMA mines
  • Performance: Speed 7 knots submerged; Range 93 miles at 4 knots submerged, 18,450 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 220 m
  • Ships in class: 8 (U116 to U119, U219, U220, U233, and U234)
  • Commissioned: 1941
  • Fate: Six lost in WWII

[edit] Type XIV supply submarine

  • Displacement: 1,932 tons submerged
  • Armament: 3 x AA guns
  • Performance: Speed 6 knots submerged; Range 55 miles at 4 knots submerged, 12,350 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 240 m
  • Ships in class: 10 (U459 to U464 and U487 to U490)
  • Commissioned: 1941
  • Fate:

[edit] Type VIIF torpedo supply submarine

  • Displacement: 1,181 tons submerged
  • Armament: 5 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 14 x torpedoes
  • Performance: Speed 8 knots submerged; Range 75 miles at 4 knots submerged, 14,700 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 200 m
  • Ships in class: 4 (U1059 to U1062)
  • Commissioned: 1943
  • Fate:

[edit] Type VIID mine laying submarine

  • Displacement: 1,080 tons submerged
  • Armament: 5 x 533 mm torpedo tubes with 14 x torpedoes or 26 x mines and 15 x SMA mines
  • Performance: Speed 8 knots submerged; Range 69 miles at 4 knots submerged, 11,200 miles at 10 knots surfaced; Depth 200 m
  • Ships in class: 6 (U213 to U218)
  • Commissioned: 1941
  • Fate: Five lost in WWII

[edit] Type XVIIB research submarine

  • Displacement: 337 tons submerged
  • Armament: None
  • Performance: Speed 25 knots submerged; Range 123 miles at 25 knots submerged, 3,000 miles at 8 knots surfaced
  • Ships in class: 12 (U1405 to U1416)
  • Commissioned: Three from 1944
  • Fate: Three scuttled May 1945, nine cancelled while building

[edit] Hans Techel class (Type 202)

  • Displacement: 137 tons submerged
  • Armament: 2 x short torpedo tubes with 2 x torpedoes or 4 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 13 knots submerged
  • Ships in class: 2: S172 Hans Techel and S173 Friedrich Schürer
  • Service: Commissioned from 1965, both decommissioned 1966 and scrapped

[edit] Type XVIIA research submarine

  • Displacement: 309 tons submerged
  • Armament: None
  • Performance: Speed 25 knots submerged; Range 127 miles at 20 knots submerged, 2,910 miles at 8 knots surfaced
  • Ships in class: 4 (U792 to U795)
  • Commissioned: 1943
  • Fate: All scuttled May 1944

[edit] Midget submarines

[edit] Type XXVIIB5 Seehund

  • Displacement: 17 tons submerged
  • Armament: 2 x torpedoes
  • Performance: Range 300 m at 7 knots; Depth 50 m
  • Ships in class: 285
  • Commissioned: 1944
  • Fate: 35 lost during WWII

[edit] Type XXVII Hecht

  • Displacement:
  • Armament: 1 x torpedo or 1 x limpet mine
  • Performance: Range 40 miles at 6 knots submerged or 78 miles at 3 knots surfaced
  • Ships in class: 53
  • Commissioned: 1944
  • Fate:

[edit] Molch

  • Displacement: 11 tons
  • Armament: 2 x torpedoes
  • Performance: Range 40 miles at 5 knots submerged
  • Ships in class: 393
  • Commissioned: 1944
  • Fate:

[edit] Biber

  • Displacement: 6.5 tons
  • Armament: 2 x torpedoes
  • Performance: Range 9 miles at 5 knots submerged or 130 miles at 6 knots surfaced
  • Ships in class: 324
  • Commissioned: 1944
  • Fate:

[edit] Small combatants

[edit] Frigatess (Fregatten)

[edit] Sachsen class (Type 124)

F220 Hamburg
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F220 Hamburg
  • Displacement: 5,600 tons
  • Armament: 1 x VLS with 56 missiles; 42 x RAM missiles; 8 x Harpoon missiles; 1 x 76 mm DP gun; 2 x 27 mm autocannon; 2 x triple torpedo launchers
  • Aircraft: Landing deck with hangar for two Sea Lynx helicopters
  • Performance: Speed 29 knots; Range 4,000 miles at 18 knots
  • Ships in class: 4: F219 Sachsen, F220 Hamburg, F221 Hessen, and F222 Thüringen
  • Service: Commissioned from 1994, all currently in service

[edit] F125 class (Type 125)

  • Displacement: 5,600 tons
  • Armament: 8 x anti-ship missiles; 1 x MLRS; 42 x RAM missiles; 1 x 155 mm gun; 2 x 27 mm autocannon; 5 x 12.7 mm machineguns; water cannon
  • Aircraft: Landing deck with hangar for two helicopters
  • Performance: Speed 27 knots; Range 4,000 miles at 18 knots
  • Ships in class: None
  • Service: Under development

[edit] Brandenburg class (Type 123)

F218 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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F218 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Displacement: 4,700 tons
  • Armament: 1 x Mark 41 VLS with 16 missiles; 2 x Mark 49 launcher with 42 missiles; 4 x Exocet missiles; 1 x 76 mm DP gun; 2 x 20 mm autocannon; 4 x 324 mm torpedo tubes
  • Aircraft: Landing deck with hangar for Sea Lynx helicopters
  • Performance: Speed 29 knots; Range 4,000 miles at 18 knots
  • Ships in class: 8: F215 Brandenburg, F216 Schleswig-Holstein, F217 Bayern, and F218 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Service: Commissioned from 1994, all currently in service

[edit] Bremen class (Type 122)

F211 Köln
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F211 Köln
  • Displacement: 3,600 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 100 mm guns; 2 x twin 40 mm AA guns; 2 x 40 mm guns; 4 x 533 mm torpedo tubes; 2 x quad 375 mm anti-submarine rocket launchers; depth charges; mines
  • Performance: Speed 34 knots; Range 2,700 miles at 22 knots
  • Ships in class: 8: F207 Bremen, F208 Niedersachsen, F209 Rheinland-Pfalz, F210 Emden, F211 Köln, F212 Karlsruhe, F213 Augsburg, and F214 Lübeck
  • Service: Commissioned from 1982, all currently in service

[edit] Köln class (Type 120)

Lübeck
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Lübeck
  • Displacement: 2,969 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 100 mm guns; 2 x twin 40 mm AA guns; 2 x 40 mm guns; 4 x 533 mm torpedo tubes; 2 x quad 375 mm anti-submarine rocket launchers; depth charges; mines
  • Performance: Speed 34 knots; Range 2,700 miles at 22 knots
  • Ships in class: 6: F220 Köln, F221 Emden, F222 Augsburg, F223 Karlsruhe, F224 Lübeck, and F225 Braunschweig
  • Service: Commissioned from 1961, last decommissioned 1989

[edit] Corvettes (Korvette)

[edit] Braunschweig class (Type 130)

  • Displacement: 1,840 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 76 mm gun; 2 x 27 mm autocannon; 42 x RAM missiles; 4 x RBS-15 missiles; mines
  • Aircraft: Landing deck with hangar for unmanned aerial vehicles
  • Performance: Speed 26 knots; Range 2,500 miles at 15 knots
  • Ships in class: 5: F260 Braunschweig, F261 Magdeburg, F262 Erfurt, F263 Oldenburg, and F264 Ludwigshafen
  • Service: Three building, two planned

[edit] Flottenbegleiter

  • Displacement: 1,030 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 10.5 cm guns; 2 x 8.8 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm AA guns; 2 x 2 cm AA guns; 4 x depth charge launchers
  • Performance: Speed 28 knots; Range 1,965 miles at 13 knots
  • Ships in class: 10
  • Service: Commissioned 1936 to 1938, four lost in WWII, many converted to other roles

[edit] Torpedo boats (Torpedoboot)

[edit] Type 1916 (Mob)

  • Displacement: 1,560 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 10.5 cm gun; 4 x machineguns; 6 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 40 mines
  • Performance: Speed 35 knots; Range 2,000 miles at 20 knots
  • Ships in class: 33 (V170 to V177, S178 to S185, and H186 to H202)
  • Service: 4 commissioned 1919 to 1921

[edit] Type 1924

  • Displacement: 1,320 tons
  • Armament: 3 x 10.5 cm guns; 2 x 2 cm AA guns; 6 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 30 mines
  • Performance: Speed 35 knots; Range 2,000 miles at 17 knots
  • Ships in class: 6
  • Service: Commissioned 1928 to 1929, all lost in WWII

[edit] Type 1916 (Mob)

  • Displacement: 1,290 tons
  • Armament: 3 x 10.5 cm gun; 6 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 40 mines
  • Performance: Speed 34 knots; Range 1,960 miles at 20 knots
  • Ships in class: 46 (G96, V125 to V130, S131 to S139, V140 to V144, H145 to H147, G148 to G150, Ww151, S152 to S157, V158 to V165, H166 to H169)
  • Service: 36 launched, 20 commissioned 1916 to 1918, one lost in WWI, nine scuttled at Scapa Flow

[edit] Type 1923

  • Displacement: 1,250 tons
  • Armament: 3 x 10.5 cm guns; 2 x 2 cm AA guns; 6 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 30 mines
  • Performance: Speed 33 knots; Range 1,800 miles at 17 knots
  • Ships in class: 6
  • Service: Commissioned 1926 to 1927, all lost in WWII

[edit] Type 1937

  • Displacement: 1,100 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 10.5 cm gun; 12 x 2 cm AA guns; 6 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 30 mines
  • Performance: Speed 35 knots; Range 1,070 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 9 (T12 to T21)
  • Service: Commissioned 1941 to 1942, four lost in WWII, all but one scrapped by 1952

[edit] Type 1935

  • Displacement: 1,100 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 10.5 cm gun; 12 x 2 cm AA guns; 6 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 30 mines
  • Performance: Speed 35 knots; Range 1,070 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 12 (T1 to T12)
  • Service: Commissioned 1939 to 1940, seven lost in WWII, all but one scrapped by 1952

[edit] Type 1913

  • Displacement: 1,100 tons
  • Armament: 3 x 8.8 cm gun; 6 x 50 cm torpedo tubes; 24 mines
  • Performance: Speed 36 knots; Range 1,800 miles at 20 knots
  • Ships in class: 71 (V25 to V30, S31 to S36, G37 to G42, V43 to V48, S49 to S66, V67 to V84, and G85 to G95)
  • Service: Commissioned 1914 to 1917

[edit] Type 1906

  • Displacement: 800 tons
  • Armament: 3 x 10.5 cm guns; 3 x 8.8 cm gun; 3 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 34 knots; Range 1,250 miles at 17 knots
  • Ships in class: 59 (S138 to S149, V150 to V164, S165 to S168, G169 to G175, S176 to S179, V180 to V191, and G192 to G197)
  • Service: Commissioned 1907 to 1911

[edit] Type 1911

  • Displacement: 750 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 8.8 cm gun; 4 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 34 knots; Range 1,150 miles at 17 knots
  • Ships in class: 24 (V1 to V6, G7 to G12, and S13 to S24)
  • Service: Commissioned 1912 to 1913

[edit] Type 1898

  • Displacement: 600 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 8.8 cm gun; 4 x 5.2 cm guns; 2 x 5 cm guns; 3 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 32 knots; Range 1,500 miles at 17 knots
  • Ships in class: 49 (S90 to S133 and G134 to G137)
  • Service: Commissioned 1899 to 1907, 12 lost in WWI, last scrapped in 1921

[edit] Type 1916

  • Displacement: 390 tons
  • Armament: 3 x 8.8 cm gun; 1 x 45 cm torpedo tube; depth charges
  • Performance: Speed 28 knots; Range 800 miles at 20 knots
  • Ships in class: 68 (A56 to A113)
  • Service: 40 launched, 36 commissioned 1917 to 1918, 9 lost in WWII, most scrapped by 1923

[edit] Type 1915

  • Displacement: 250 tons
  • Armament: 3 x 8.8 cm gun; 1 x 45 cm torpedo tube; depth charges
  • Performance: Speed 26 knots; Range 690 miles at 20 knots
  • Ships in class: 30 (A26 to A55)
  • Service: Commissioned 1916 to 1917

[edit] Type 1897

  • Displacement: 175 tons
  • Armament: 3 x 5 cm gun; 3 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 26 knots; Range 1,600 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 8 (S82 to S89)
  • Service: Commissioned 1897 to 1898, all scrapped in 1921

[edit] Type 1892

  • Displacement: 175 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 5 cm gun; 3 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 23 knots; Range 1,700 miles at 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 16 (S66 to S81)
  • Service: Commissioned 1892 to 1896, four lost in WWI, last scrapped in 1921

[edit] Type 1885

  • Displacement: 150 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 5 cm gun; 2 x 3.7 cm revolver cannon; 3 x 45 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 22 knots; Range 2,250 miles at 10 knots
  • Ships in class: 59 (S7 to S65)
  • Service: Commissioned 1885 to 1892, 15 lost in WWI, last scrapped 1921

[edit] Type 1914

  • Displacement: 148 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 5 cm gun; 2 x 45 cm torpedo tubes; 4 mines
  • Performance: Speed 20 knots; Range 440 miles at 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 25 (A1 to A25)
  • Service: Commissioned 1915

[edit] Fast attack craft (Schnellboot)

[edit] Albatros class (Type 143)

S63 Geier and others
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S63 Geier and others
  • Displacement: 398 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 76 mm guns; 4 x Exocet missiles; 2 x torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 40 knots
  • Ships in class: 10 (S61 to S70)
  • Service: Commissioned from 1976, last decommissioned 2005

[edit] Gepard class (Type 143A)

S71 Gepard
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S71 Gepard
  • Displacement: 391 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 76 mm gun; 4 x Exocet missiles; 21 RAM missiles; mines
  • Performance: Speed 40 knots
  • Ships in class: 10 (S71 to S80)
  • Service: Commissioned from 1982, currently in service

[edit] Tiger class (Type 148)

  • Displacement: 265 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 76 mm gun; 4 x Exocet missiles; 1 x 40 mm gun; 8 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 36 knots
  • Ships in class: 20 (S41 to S60)
  • Service: Commissioned from 1972, last decommissioned 2002

[edit] Zobel class (Type 142)

  • Displacement: 205 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 40 mm guns; 4 x 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 42 knots
  • Ships in class: 10 (S31 to S40)
  • Service: Commissioned from 1961, last decommissioned 1984

[edit] Seeadler class (Type 141)

  • Displacement: 190 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 40 mm guns; 4 x 533 mm torpedo tubes; 4 x depth charges
  • Performance: Speed 43 knots
  • Ships in class: 10 (S6 to S11 and S25 to S28)
  • Service: Commissioned from 1958, last decommissioned 1976

[edit] Jaguar class (Type 140)

  • Displacement: 183 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 40 mm guns; 4 x 533 mm torpedo tubes; 4 x depth charges (optionally may ship 2 x minelaying ramps instead of two tubes)
  • Performance: Speed 42 knots; Range 700 miles
  • Ships in class: 20 (S1 to S5, S12 to S24, S29, and S30)
  • Service: Commissioned from 1957, last decommissioned 1975

[edit] Type 1939/40

  • Displacement: 110 tons
  • Armament: 6 x 3 cm AA gun; 2 x 2 cm AA gun; 2 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 8 mines
  • Performance: Speed 41 knots
  • Ships in class: 220 (S26 to S29, S38 to S53, S62 to S150; S159 to S232; S301 to S328; S701 to S709)
  • Service: Commissioned 1941 to 1945, many scrapped before completion

[edit] Type 1939

  • Displacement: 102 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 2 cm gun; 8 x machineguns; 2 x 53 cm torpedo tubes; 6 mines
  • Performance: Speed 36 knots; Range 800 miles at 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 16 (S30 to S37, S54 to S61)
  • Service: Commissioned 1939 to 1941, twelve lost in WWII

[edit] Type 1937

  • Displacement: 105 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 2 cm gun; 1 x machinegun; 2 x 53 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 40 knots; Range 700 miles at 35 knots
  • Ships in class: 8 (S18 to S25)
  • Service: Commissioned 1938 to 1939, one lost in WWII

[edit] Type 1934

  • Displacement: 105 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 2 cm gun; 1 x machinegun; 2 x 53 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 37 knots; Range 500 miles at 32 knots
  • Ships in class: 4 (S14 to S17)
  • Service: Commissioned 1936 to 1938, two lost in WWII, others turned over to Allies

[edit] Type 1933

  • Displacement: 90 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 2 cm gun; 4 x machineguns; 2 x 53 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 36 knots; Range 600 miles at 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 7 (S7 to S13)
  • Service: Commissioned 1934 to 1935, one scuttled in WWII, remainder turned over to Allies

[edit] Nasty class (Type 152)

Typical Nasty class boat
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Typical Nasty class boat
  • Displacement: 398 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 76 mm guns; 4 x Exocet missiles; 2 x torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 40 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Hugin and Munin
  • Service: Commissioned from 1960, both decommissioned 1964

[edit] Type 1931

  • Displacement: 57 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 2 cm gun; 2 x 53 cm torpedo tubes
  • Performance: Speed 33 knots; Range 580 miles at 22 knots
  • Ships in class: 4 (S2 to S5)
  • Service: Commissioned 1932, all to Spain in 1936

[edit] Leichte Schnellboote

  • Displacement: 12 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 2 cm guns; 1 x machinegun; 2 x 45 cm torpedo tubes; 4 mines
  • Performance: Speed 40 knots; Range 300 miles at 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 12
  • Service: Commissioned 1940 to 1944, all but one lost during WWII

[edit] Mine warfare vessels

[edit] Mine hunters (Minensuchboot)

[edit] Sperrbrecher

  • Displacement: 7,500 tons (typical)
  • Armament: 2 x 10.5 cm guns; 2 x 3.7 cm AA gun; 15 x 2 cm AA guns (typical)
  • Performance: Speed 14 knots (typical)
  • Ships in class: Around 100
  • Service: Converted from merchant ships through WWII, about 50 lost, many returned to merchant duties after the war

[edit] Type 1935

  • Displacement: 870 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 10.5 cm guns; 1 x 3.7 cm AA gun; 6 x 2 cm AA guns; 4 x depth charge launchers; 30 mines
  • Performance: Speed 18 knots; Range 5,000 miles at 10 knots
  • Ships in class: 69
  • Service: Commissioned 1938 to 1943, 34 lost during WWII, five served with German Federal Navy

[edit] Type 1943

  • Displacement: 821 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 10.5 cm guns; 2 x 3.7 cm AA gun; 8 x 2 cm AA guns; 4 x depth charge launchers; 24 mines
  • Performance: Speed 17 knots; Range 3,600 miles at 11 knots
  • Ships in class: 17
  • Service: Commissioned 1944 to 1945, one lost during WWII

[edit] Type 1941

  • Displacement: 775 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 10.5 cm guns; 4 x 3.7 cm AA gun; 10 x 2 cm AA guns; 4 x depth charge launchers
  • Performance: Speed 17 knots; Range 4,000 miles at 10 knots
  • Ships in class: 131
  • Service: Commissioned 1941 to 1944, 63 lost during WWII, five served with German Federal Navy

[edit] Frankenthal class (Type 332)

M1064 Grömitz
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M1064 Grömitz
  • Displacement: 660 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 40 mm DP gun; mines (possible addition of 1 x 27 mm autocannon)
  • Performance: Speed 18 knots
  • Ships in class: 12: Frankenthal, Weiden, Rottweil, Bad Bevensen, Bad Rappenau, Grömitz, Datteln, Dillingen, Homburg, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Fulda, and Weilheim
  • Service: Commissioned from 1992, all in active service

[edit] Kulmbach class (Type 333)

  • Displacement: 645 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 40 mm DP guns; 2 x anti-aircraft missile launchers; mines (possible addition of 1 x 27 mm autocannon)
  • Performance: Speed 18 knots
  • Ships in class: 5: Kulmbach, Überherrn, Herten, Passau, and Laboe
  • Service: Commissioned from 1989, all in active service

[edit] Type 1916

  • Displacement: 630 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 8.8 cm guns; 30 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 16 knots; Range 2,000 miles at 14 knots
  • Ships in class: 120 (M57 to M176)
  • Service: 91 launched, 81 commissioned 1918 to 1920, 8 lost in WWI

[edit] Type 1915

  • Displacement: 510 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 10.5 cm guns; 30 x mines (some boats shipped 3 x 8.8 cm guns instead of 2 x 10.5 cm guns)
  • Performance: Speed 16 knots; Range 2,000 miles at 14 knots
  • Ships in class: 30 (M27 to M56)
  • Service: Commissioned 1916, 10 lost in WWI

[edit] Type 1914

  • Displacement: 475 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 8.8 cm guns; 1 x 3.7 cm revolver cannon; 30 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 17 knots; Range 1,680 miles at 14 knots
  • Ships in class: 26 (M1 to M26)
  • Service: Commissioned 1914 to 1917, 11 lost in WWI

[edit] Flachgehende Minensuchboote

  • Displacement: 205 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 8.8 cm gun
  • Performance: Speed 14 knots; Range 650 miles at 14 knots
  • Ships in class: 66 (FM1 to FM66)
  • Service: 54 launched, commissioned 1918 to 1919, 6 lost in WWII

[edit] Minenräumboot

  • Displacement: 155 tons
  • Armament: 1 x 3.7 cm AA gun; 3 x 2 cm AA guns; 1 x 8.6 cm Föhn launcher
  • Performance: Speed 19 knots
  • Ships in class: 300
  • Service: About 160 lost during WWII

[edit] Mine layers (Minenleger)

[edit] Albatross

  • Displacement: 2,500 tons
  • Armament: 8 x 8.8 cm guns; 288 x mines
  • Performance: Speed 20 knots; Range 3,680 miles at 9 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1908, scrapped 1921

[edit] Auxiliary mine layer (Hilfsminenleger)

  • Displacement: 300 to 4,200 tons
  • Ships in class: 16 conversions
  • Service: Converted from various merchant and passenger ships, commissioned as mine layers in 1914, all survived WWI, most returned to civil duties

[edit] Küstenminenleger

  • Displacement: 19 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 2 cm guns; 4 mines
  • Performance: Speed 32 knots; Range 225 miles at 25 knots
  • Ships in class: 36 (KM1 to KM36)
  • Service: Commissioned 1941 to 1943

[edit] Amphibious warfare vessels

[edit] Landing craft (Landungsboote)

[edit] Barbe class (Type 520)

  • Displacement: 430 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 20 mm autocannon; mines
  • Capacity: 150 t
  • Performance: Speed 11 knots
  • Ships in class: 22
  • Service: Commissioned from 1965, two remain in active service

[edit] Type 554

Typical LCU
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Typical LCU
  • Displacement: 375 tons
  • Armament: 2 x 12.7 mm machineguns
  • Capacity: 125 t or 400 troops
  • Performance: Speed 11 knots; Range 1,200 miles at 9 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: 1958 to 1964

[edit] Type 521

Typical LCM-8
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Typical LCM-8
  • Displacement: 111 tons
  • Armament: Small arms
  • Capacity: 53 t
  • Performance: Speed 11 knots
  • Ships in class: 28
  • Service: Commissioned from 1965, decommissioned

[edit] Type 552

  • Displacement: 13 tons
  • Capacity: 0.4 t or 36 troops
  • Performance: Speed 10 knots; Range 80 miles
  • Ships in class: 9
  • Service: 1958 to 1964

[edit] Auxiliary ships

[edit] Tenders and replenishment ships

[edit] Berlin class (Type 702)

A1411 Berlin
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A1411 Berlin
  • Displacement: 18,637 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 27 mm autocannon; Fliegerfaust 2 missiles
  • Aircraft: Helicopter deck with hangar for two large helicopters
  • Ships in class: 2: Berlin and Frankfurt am Main
  • Service: Commissioned from 2001, both in active service, 2 more planned

[edit] Rhön class (Type 704A)

  • Displacement: 14,170 tons
  • Capacity: 44,760 m³
  • Performance: Speed 16 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Rhön and Spessart
  • Service: Commissioned from 1966, two remain in active service

[edit] Elbe class (Type 404)

A511 Elbe
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A511 Elbe
  • Displacement: 3,170 tons
  • Armament: 2 x Fliegerfaust missiles; 2 x 20 mm autocannon
  • Aircraft: Helicopter deck, no hangar
  • Capacity: 700m³ fuel; 60m³ aviation fuel; 280m³ fresh water; 160t ammunition; 40t supplies
  • Performance: Speed 15 knots; Range 2,600 miles
  • Ships in class: 12: Elbe, Mosel, Rhein, Werra, Main, and Donau
  • Service: Commissioned from 1993, all in active service

[edit] Walchensee class (Type 703)

  • Displacement: 2,190 tons
  • Capacity: 1,100t fuel; 60t fresh water
  • Performance: Speed 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 4: Walchensee, Ammersee, Tegernsee, and Westensee
  • Service: Commissioned from 1966, two remain in active service

[edit] Surveillance, reconnaissance, and ELINT ships

[edit] Oste class (Type 423)

  • Displacement: 3,200 tons
  • Performance: Speed 21 knots; Range 500 miles
  • Ships in class: 3: Oste, Oker, and Alster
  • Service: Commissioned from 1988, all in active service

[edit] Tugs

[edit] Wangerooge class (Type 722)

A1453 Juist
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A1453 Juist
  • Displacement: 798 tons
  • Performance: Speed 12 knots
  • Ships in class: 6: Wangerooge, Spiekeroog, Langeoog, Baltrum, Norderney, and Juist
  • Service: Commissioned from 1968, two remain in active service

[edit] Helgoland class (Type 720)

  • Ships in class: 2: Helgoland and Fehmarn
  • Service: Commissioned from 1966, one remains in active service

[edit] Icebreakers

[edit] Eisvogel class (Type 721)

  • Displacement: 560 tons
  • Performance: Speed 14 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Eisvogel and Eisbär
  • Service: Commissioned from 1961, one remains in active service

[edit] Training ships (Schulschiffe)

[edit] Deutschland (Type 440)

  • Displacement: 3,200 tons
  • Armament: 4 x 100 mm guns; 2 x twin 40 mm guns, 2 x 40 mm guns; 2 x 533 mm torpedo tubes; 2 x quad 375 mm anti submarine rocket launchers, 2 x depth charge rails; mines
  • Performance: Speed 21 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1966, decommissioned 1990

[edit] Gorch Fock (Type 441)

  • Displacement: 1,760 tons
  • Performance: Speed 13 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Service: Commissioned 1958, in active service

[edit] Transport ships

[edit] Westerwald class (Type 760)

  • Displacement: 4,042 tons
  • Performance: Speed 17 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Westerwald and Odenwald
  • Service: Commissioned from 1967, one remains in active service

[edit] See also