Seeadler-class fast attack craft
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Lurssen, Bremen-Vegesack |
| Operators: |
 German Navy,  Hellenic Navy |
| Built: | 1957-1960 |
| In commission: | 1958-76 |
| Completed: | 10 |
| Retired: | 10 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Torpedo boat (fast attack craft) |
| Displacement: | 183.4 tonnes standard, 210 tonnes full load |
| Length: | 42.6 m |
| Beam: | 7.1 m |
| Draught: | 2.3 m |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 30knots cruise, 36 kts max (later around 43.5kts ) |
| Range: | 700nms at 35knots |
| Complement: | 39 officers and enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: | Navigation radar, Surveillance radar |
| Armament: | 2 Bofors 40mm gun, 3168 rounds of ammunition
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The Type 141 Seeadler class fast attack craft differs from Type 140 Jaguar class fast attack craft only in the installation of other, later more powerful diesel engine.
The Seeadler class was replaced in service with the Bundesmarine by the Type 143 Albatros class.
List of boats
| NATO pennant number |
German pennant number |
Name | Callsign | Shipbuilder | Launched | Com- missioned |
Decom- missioned |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P6068 | S6 | Seeadler | DBWE | Lürssen | February 1, 1958 | August 29, 1958 | July 30, 1976 | To Hellenic Navy as Esperos (decommissioned December 21, 2004) |
| P6069 | S7 | Albatros | January 27, 1959 | December 19, 1975 | To Hellenic Navy, for cannibalization | |||
| P6070 | S8 | Kondor | February 24, 1959 | July 25, 1976 | To Hellenic Navy as Lailaps | |||
| P6071 | S9 | Greif | March 3, 1959 | April 30, 1976 | To Hellenic Navy as Kyklos | |||
| P6072 | S10 | Falke | April 14, 1959 | August 26, 1975 | To Hellenic Navy as Kataigis | |||
| P6073 | S11 | Geier | June 3, 1959 | June 27, 1975 | To Hellenic Navy as Tyfon | |||
| P6074 | S25 | Bussard | March 21, 1959 | November 28, 1975 | To Hellenic Navy, for cannibalization | |||
| P6075 | S26 | Habicht | May 21, 1959 | August 24, 1976 | To Hellenic Navy as Kataurus | |||
| P6076 | S27 | Sperber | July 1, 1959 | December 27, 1976 | To Hellenic Navy, for cannibalization | |||
| P6077 | S28 | Kormoran | November 9, 1959 | November 26, 1976 | To Hellenic Navy as Scorpius |
See also
- List of German Federal Navy ships
- List of naval ships of Germany
- List of ship launches in 1958
- Lists of ship commissionings in 1958 and 1959
- Lists of ship decommissionings in 1975 and 1976
References
- Typ 141 Seeadler-Klasse @ Schnellboot.net (in German)