Hipper (F 214)

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The hippers in their final state of arms
The hippers in their final state of arms
Ship data
flag United KingdomUnited Kingdom (Naval War Flag) United Kingdom of Germany
GermanyGermany (naval war flag) 
other ship names

HMS Actaeon

Ship type Sloop training
ship
class modified Black Swan class
Callsign DBON
Shipyard JI Thornycroft & Co. , Southampton
Build number 4033
Keel laying May 15, 1944
Launch July 25, 1945
Commissioning July 24, 1946 ( RN )
January 10, 1959 ( German Navy )
Decommissioning July 31, 1964
Whereabouts Sold for scrapping in 1967
Ship dimensions and crew
length
91.34 m ( Lüa )
width 12.2 m
Draft Max. 2.86 m
displacement 1,925  ts
 
crew 180 men
Machine system
machine 3 boilers
2 Parsons turbines
Top
speed 		18.25 kn (34 km / h)
Armament from 1946

last

in 2 double and 2 single mounts
  • Mines possible

The frigate Hipper (F 214) of the German Navy was a training ship , named after the chief of the reconnaissance association of the German deep sea fleet in the Skagerrakschlacht , Admiral Franz von Hipper (1862-1932). The ship was launched in 1945 as HMS Actaeon for the Royal Navy and was completed too late for use in World War II . 1959 to 1964 the Hipper served as a cadet training ship for the German Navy. In autumn 1967 it was sold to Hamburg for demolition.

history

The later Hipper was ordered on December 3, 1941 from Thornycroft in Southampton as a sloop of the modified Black Swan class and laid down on May 15, 1944. On July 25, 1945, the ship was launched as Actaeon only after the war in Europe. She was then completed on July 24, 1946 as the third ship of the class built by Thornycroft. It received the identifier U07. She was used by the Royal Navy from January 1947 to January 1953 on the Cape Station.

German school frigate

As part of the rearmament, the Federal Republic of Germany took over a total of seven ships from the Royal Navy as school frigates in the construction phase of the Federal Navy, which for the sake of simplicity were grouped under the heading of class 138 school frigates , although they were by no means identical.

Germany took over the Sloop Actaeon , which had already been reclassified as a frigate in British service, as the only one of the seven ships that had not already been used in World War II. She belonged to three ships of the so-called modified Black Swan class . Germany put the Actaeon into service in January 1959 as a Hipper (F 214) for the Mürwik Naval School , where it was used for cadet training alongside the similar Graf Spee (F 215) of the Black Swan class. In 1961 she was placed under the command of the school ships . The armament of the ship was changed several times during her service with the German Navy. The Actaeon / Hipper was delivered with two 102 mm L / 45 Mk XVI twin guns at the bow, which were successively replaced. She also carried three individual Bofors 40 mm cannons from an older model. In the end, the Hipper and Graf Spee had two twin Bofors 40 mm cannons on top of each other at the bow and at the very end of the enlarged deck structure had two individual guns of this type next to each other, as they were also installed on the new ships of the German Navy.

During her service, she undertook a number of training trips abroad, often with her sister ship Graf Spee , which she u. a. several times led to American port cities, from Victoria (British Columbia) in the north to Valparaiso and Cape Horn in the South Pacific. In the old world, the ports called reached from Reykjavík in the north via Lomé in Togo and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in the south to Bangkok in the east. After just five years, it was decommissioned on July 31, 1964. Considerations to convert the frigate into an air traffic control ship were not realized due to its age. The Hipper was like on 25 October 1967 Graf Spee for recycling to Hamburg sold.

Other ships named Hipper

Another German warship was named after Franz von Hipper : The Admiral Hipper (1939–1945), a heavy cruiser of the Admiral Hipper class named after him during World War II .

literature

  • Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford.
  • Günter Kroschel, Klaus-Jürgen Steindorff: The German Navy 1955–1985. Ships and planes. Lohse-Eissing, Wilhelmshaven 1985, ISBN 3-920602-30-7 .

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