Seeadler-class fast attack craft

Seeadler-class fast attack craft
Schnellboot-Kondor-25.-April-1967.jpg Kondor in 1967
Class overview
Name:	Seeadler class
Builders:	Lurssen, Bremen-Vegesack
Operators:	German Navy Hellenic Navy
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:	2 Bofors 40 mm guns, 3168 rounds of ammunition 4 533 mm torpedo tubes, 4 torpedoes Minelaying capabilities: The aft 2 torpedo tubes can be exchanged with 2 ramps for 23 naval mines Mk 2 4 depth charges

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	1 February 1958	29 August 1958	30 July 1976	To Hellenic Navy as Esperos (decommissioned 21 December 2004)
P6069	S7	Albatros				27 January 1959	19 December 1975	To Hellenic Navy, for cannibalization
P6070	S8	Kondor				24 February 1959	25 July 1976	To Hellenic Navy as Lailaps
P6071	S9	Greif				3 March 1959	30 April 1976	To Hellenic Navy as Kyklos
P6072	S10	Falke				14 April 1959	26 August 1975	To Hellenic Navy as Kataigis
P6073	S11	Geier				3 June 1959	27 June 1975	To Hellenic Navy as Tyfon
P6074	S25	Bussard				21 March 1959	28 November 1975	To Hellenic Navy, for cannibalization
P6075	S26	Habicht				21 May 1959	24 August 1976	To Hellenic Navy as Kataurus
P6076	S27	Sperber				1 July 1959	27 December 1976	To Hellenic Navy, for cannibalization
P6077	S28	Kormoran				9 November 1959	26 November 1976	To Hellenic Navy as Scorpius

See also

• List of German Federal Navy ships
• List of naval ships of Germany

References

• Typ 141 Seeadler-Klasse @ Schnellboot.net (in German)

External links

• http://www.schnellboot-seeadler.de