Seeadler-class fast attack craft

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.

Kondor in 1967
Class overview
Name: Seeadler class
Builders: Lurssen, Bremen-Vegesack
Operators:
In commission: 1958–1976
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 (139 ft 9 in)
Beam: 7.1 m (23 ft 4 in)
Draught: 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:
  • 4 Maybach MD 871 diesel engines, 3000 PS each (replaced by MD 872 engines with 3600 PS in the late 1960s)
  • 4 propeller shafts, driving three-bladed propellers of 1.15 m diameter
  • Bunker: 30 t diesel, 1.12 t lubricants, 2 t fresh water
Speed:
  • 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) cruise
  • 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) max (later around 43.5kts )
Range: 700 nautical miles (1,300 km; 810 mi) at 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement: 39 officers and enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:		 Navigation radar, Surveillance radar
Armament:

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
P6068S6SeeadlerDBWELürssen1 February 1958 29 August 195830 July 1976To Hellenic Navy as Esperos (decommissioned 21 December 2004)
P6069S7Albatros 27 January 195919 December 1975To Hellenic Navy, for cannibalization
P6070S8Kondor 24 February 195925 July 1976To Hellenic Navy as Lailaps
P6071S9Greif 3 March 195930 April 1976To Hellenic Navy as Kyklos
P6072S10Falke 14 April 195926 August 1975To Hellenic Navy as Kataigis
P6073S11Geier 3 June 195927 June 1975To Hellenic Navy as Tyfon
P6074S25Bussard 21 March 195928 November 1975To Hellenic Navy, for cannibalization
P6075S26Habicht 21 May 195924 August 1976To Hellenic Navy as Kataurus
P6076S27Sperber 1 July 195927 December 1976To Hellenic Navy, for cannibalization
P6077S28Kormoran 9 November 195926 November 1976To Hellenic Navy as Scorpius

See also

References


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