Kingfisher class

Kingfisher class

Eisvogel (1963 in the Kiel Fjord )

Ship data country  Germany Italy   Ship type Icebreaker and tugboat Shipyard Hitzler shipyard , Lauenburg Construction period 1959 to 1961 Launch of the type ship April 28, 1960 Units built 2 period of service Since 1961

Ship dimensions and crew length 37.8 m ( Lüa ) width 9.73 m Draft Max. 4.69 m measurement 374.79 GRT, 100.39 NRT   crew 16 (civil)

Machine system machine 2 Maybach MD 655 diesel engines Machine performance 1,765 kW (2,400 hp) Top speed 13 kn (24 km / h) propeller 2 KaMeWa controllable pitch propellers

Furnishing Bollard pull 20 tbp Unbalance ramming system Two eccentric wheels Armament Foundation for a 40 mm Bofors gun

Others Classifications Germanic Lloyd Registration numbers IMO 8736198 ( Kingfisher )

The Kingfisher - class consisted of two icebreakers Class 721, which from 1961 to 2006 for the German Navy / German Navy were on duty. The Eisvogel has been used as a civilian tug in Trieste since 2010 .

General

The two ships were commissioned in 1958 for 4 million DM each from the Hitzler shipyard in Lauenburg (construction numbers 645 and 646). The hull has a typical tugboat shape and is divided into six compartments by five bulkheads.

During their service with the German Navy, the two ships were mainly used as tugs in the naval bases , as tugs for sea target shooting targets and in winter as ice breakers. The equipment consisted of an unbalance tamping system with 2 eccentric wheels in the foredeck, a towing device with a bollard pull of 20 tbp and a platform for a 40 mm Bofors gun behind the bridge superstructure.

units

Eisvogel after reconstruction with home port Trieste

• 721/01 / Eisvogel (A 1401)

The type ship of this class was launched on April 28, 1960 and was put into service on March 11, 1961 for the command of the supply ships . Later, the Eisvogel was subordinate to the Kiel naval base command.

After the decommissioning on March 3, 2006, was Kingfisher first in Wilhelmshaven launched and was then on the VEBEG sold to private owners. After modernization, the ship has been registered in Trieste since 2010 and is used as a tug for Lucatelli Towing & Salvage.

• 721/02 polar bear (A 1402)

The second ship was built in parallel and was launched on June 9, 1960. The commissioning for the command of the supply ships took place on November 1, 1961. The Eisbär moved in 1967 to the Borkum naval base command and after its dissolution in 1996 to the Wilhelmshaven naval base command . After the decommissioning on October 30, 1997, the ship was sold to the Netherlands via VEBEG .

See also

• List of ships of the Bundeswehr

Web links

Commons : Kingfisher class  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Special ships from the Hitzler shipyard

literature

• Gerhard Koop / Siegfried Breyer: The ships, vehicles and planes of the German Navy from 1956 until today. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Eisvogel as Ship of the Day (accessed March 12, 2011)