Women's praise class

Women praise class

Atlantis in Alberthafen Dresden (2011)

Ship data country  Germany (1966–2002) Estonia (1997–2005)   Ship type Class 362: Coast guard boat. Class 394: Minesweeper Shipyard Kroger , Rendsburg Launch of the type ship 1965 Units built 10 period of service 1966 to 2005

Ship dimensions and crew length 43.8 m ( Lüa ) 38.01 m ( Lpp ) width 8.2 m Draft Max. 2.1 m displacement 238  t   crew 28 men

Machine system machine 2 Mercedes-Maybach 12-cyl. V engines Machine performance 2,000 PS (1,471 kW) propeller 2 four-bladed propellers with a diameter of 1.18 m

Armament 1 × 40 mm 40 / L70 Bofors Mine clearance equipment

The Frauenlob class was used by the German Navy in the 1960s to designate coast guard boats that were later reclassified as inland minesweepers.

history

The first eight boats of the Frauenlob class were put into service by the German Navy in 1966 as coast guard boats of class 362 and shortly afterwards reclassified as inland minesweepers (class 394A). Together with the two units of class 394B, a total of ten of these wooden boats were put into service between 1966 and 1969. These were initially subordinated to the 5th Mining Squadron (5th MSG) and, after its establishment in 1967, to the 7th MSG in Neustadt / Holstein .

The name of the type ship / boat class goes back to the Prussian war schooner Frauenlob financed by donations from German women . It sank in a typhoon off Yokohama on September 2, 1860. The second bearer of this name was the Kleine Kreuzer Frauenlob , which the Imperial Navy had put into service in 1903 and which was sunk during the Battle of the Skagerrak .

The boats of the Frauenlob class changed their identification several times, also due to the different tasks . As guard boats they had a W identification, as minesweepers an M identification. At times they also had a Y identifier, since at that time only ten harbor protection boats were planned in the German Navy and this contingent was covered by the Ariadne class boats .

In the years 1994 to 2002 the boats were withdrawn from active service by the German Navy. Initially some were taken over by the Estonian Navy , but have since been replaced there by other units.

units

 Germany

A total of ten boats of class 394A / B were put into service by the German Navy. These were:

Identifier	Surname	class	period of service	Whereabouts
M 2658	Women praise	394B	1966-2002	Naval Engineering School , Parow
M 2659	nautilus	394A	1966-1994	Vebeg , 1995 (?) Canceled
M 2660	Gefion	394A	1967-2002	Scrapped in 2014
M 2661	Medusa	394A	1967-2001	Vebeg, canceled in 2004
M 2662	Undine	394A	1967-2001	Estonia (see Vaindlo )
M 2663	Minerva	394B	1967-1995	Estonia (see Kalev )
M 2664	Diana	394A	1967-1995	Estonia (see Olev )
M 2665	Loreley	394A	1968-2002	Estonia (as a spare parts donor)
M 2666	Atlantis	394A	1968-1995	since 2000 museum ship in Alberthafen , Dresden
M 2667	Acheron	394A	1969-1995	VEBEG, canceled in 1996

 Estonia

Estonia's navy took over several boats from Germany. The following units were put into service:

Identifier	Surname	period of service	Whereabouts
M 414	Kalev	1997-2003	as a museum ship in the Tallinn seaplane airport
M 415	Olev	1997-2005	should be auctioned in 2008
M 416	Vaindlo	2003-2005	should be auctioned in 2008

See also

• List of ships of the Bundeswehr

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Women's Praise Class  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• minenjagd.de private website with information on the women's praise class

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Rhades (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Navy (Volume 8) . Carl Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1972, ISBN 3-7961-4297-4 , p. 141 .
2. ^ Minesweeper "Frauenlob" class (394). In: Museum Harbor. Marine Press and Information Center, August 26, 2014, accessed September 11, 2014 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Press release on the planned auction (Estonian)