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Seeadler-class fast attack craft

Schnellboot-Kondor-25.-April-1967.jpg
Kondor in 1967
Class overview
Name: Seeadler class
Builders: Lurssen, Bremen-Vegesack
Operators:
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 (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 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.



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