German naval ship Mühlhausen
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Mülhausen is a naval ship in service with the German Navy. The ship was launched June 30, 1966 at the Burmester Werft in Bremen and was given the Name Walther von Ledebur. She was a prototype of a new class of ocean-going minesweepers, which however was not accepted by the Bundesmarine. She was commissioned 1967 and served with a civil crew as trials ship for the Wehrtechnische Dienststelle (defence technological office) until its decommission in 1994. She had the pennant number A1410 and was categorized as a Type 742 class ship.
After her decommissioning the German Navy decided to convert her into a training and support vessel for mine divers. The rebuilding was done at the Peene-Werft shipyard in Wolgast and on April 6, 1995 she was recommissioned as M1052 Mühlhausen and classified as Type 742A ship.
With 39 years in service she's one of the oldest ships in the German Navy and might be replaced by a converted Frankenthal class mine hunter in the near future.
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[edit] Specifications
- Length: 63.16m
- Beam: 10.84m
- Draft: 2.9m
- Displacement: 854 BRT
- Propulsion: 2 Maybach diesel engines, 1912kW each
- Equipment: 1 recompression chamber for 6 divers
- Complement: 34 + 15
[edit] Trivia
Mühlhausen is the largest naval ship still in service with a hull made of glued laminated timber (mahagony).
[edit] References
- Minentaucherboot MÜHLHAUSEN (German), see [1] for rough English translation
[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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