German naval ship Mühlhausen
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Mühlhausen was 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.
After 40 years in service, the Mühlhausen was decommissioned in 2007 and ist to be replaced by the converted Frankenthal class mine hunter Rottweil in the near future.
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[edit] Specifications
- Length: 63.16 m
- Beam: 10.84 m
- Draft: 2.9 m
- Displacement: 854 BRT
- Propulsion: 2 Maybach diesel engines, 1912 kW each
- Equipment: 1 recompression chamber for 6 divers
- Complement: 34 + 15
[edit] Trivia
At the time of her decommissioning, Mühlhausen was 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
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