Hoyerswerda class

Hoyerswerda class
613 "Frankfurt / Oder" 1979 (in the background)
Overview
Type	Landing ship and deep sea supplier
units	12
Namesake	City of Hoyerswerda
period of service	1975–1990 ( People's Navy ) Since 1993 Indonesian Navy
home port	Peenemünde
Technical specifications
displacement	1,744 t
length	90.7 m
width	11.1 m
Draft	3.4 m
crew	42 (Dropship) 35 (Supply)
drive	Diesel engine : 12,000 PS (9,000 kW)
speed	18 kn
Armament	(Until 1990) 2 × 57 mm twin guns AK-725 2 × 30 mm twin guns AK-230 (landing craft only) 2 × A 215 rocket launcher system , each with 40 122 mm rockets in the MS 73 starter (landing craft only) 1 × SOSNA-100 gas blasting device (landing craft only) 2 × 25mm twin guns 2-M-3 (utility only)
electronics	(Until 1990) Radio missile control system MR 103 Radio measuring system 302 Missile control system Nichrom RR (landing craft only) Beam warning system KDU-4 Gas signal transmitter AGF-IM Radio navigation measuring systems TSR 333 and MR 302 (only suppliers)
Payload	280 soldiers 7 tanks

The Hoyerswerda class ( NATO code name FROSCH-I-Klasse (Landungsschiffe); FROSCH-II-Klasse (Hochseeversorger)) was a landing ship and deep-sea supplier class of the People's Navy of the GDR , it is currently used by the Indonesian Navy .

The ships of the Hoyerswerda class were planned in the 1970s as Project 108 (landing ship) and Project 109 (deep sea supplier) and built from 1974 to 1980 at the Peene shipyard in Wolgast (now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ).

design

DropShips

A total of twelve landing craft of this class were built. They were supposed to replace the obsolete seal-class ships . The Warsaw Pact's plans for an emergency in the Cold War envisaged extensive amphibious warfare in the Baltic and North Sea , which is why the Warsaw Pact states built landing ships. The East German NVA had a regiment of mechanized infantry (MSR-28) that was trained for amphibious landing operations.

The ships could carry up to 280 soldiers and about seven tanks . For landing, the ships were driven as close as possible to the beach, where the vehicles could then either drive over pontoons or, in the case of floating tanks of the type BMP or PT-76, through the water on land.

The ships received an armament with which the infantry could be supported. Due to delivery difficulties on the part of the USSR, already planned rocket launchers of the type Grad-M (A 215) could only be installed from construction number 108.05 (the fifth ship of the class).

Offshore supplier

The Volksmarine needed new suppliers for their larger ship units in the mid-1970s. Therefore, the design for the landing ships was changed so that an offshore supply was possible. Two ships were equipped with a stabilized crane and additional loading hatches were installed. The rest of the conception was retained so that these ships could also land.

history

The landing ships were built from 1974 to 1980 at the Peene shipyard and then subordinated to the 1st landing ship brigade in Peenemünde . In 1980 the utilities were transferred to the 1st seizure ship department, also in Peenemünde.

All ships of the class were decommissioned on October 1, 1990, demilitarized at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock and sold to Indonesia in 1993 .

units

DropShips

Construction no.	Ship no.	Surname	Ship no.	Surname
108.01	611	Hoyerswerda	531	Teluk Gilimanuk
108.02	632	Hagenow	532	Teluk Celukan Bawang
108.03	613	Frankfurt / Oder	533	Teluk Cendrawasih
108.04	634	Eberswalde / Finow	534	Teluk Berau
108.05	631	Luebben	535	Teluk Peleng
108.06	612	Schwerin	536	Teluk Sibolga
108.07	633	Neubrandenburg	537	Teluk Manado
108.08	614	cottbus	538	Teluk Hading
108.09	635	Anklam	539	Teluk Parigi
108.10	636	Schwedt	540	Teluk Lampung
108.11	615	Eisenhüttenstadt	541	Teluk Jakarta
108.12	616	Grim	542	Teluk Sangkulirang

Offshore supplier

Construction no.	Ship no.	Surname	Ship no.	Surname
109.01	E171	Nordperd	543	Teluk Cirebon
109.02	E172	Südperd	544	Teluk Sabang

photos

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  Nordperd 1986 while observing a NATO maneuver

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  E172 Südperd, 1990, photographed from on board the FGS Hameln, M1092

See also

List of ships of the National People's Army

Web links

• Page about the first flotilla of the People's Navy
• Side of the Peene shipyard

literature

• Hans Mehl, Kurt Schafer: The naval forces of the NVA. Motorbuch Verlag, ISBN 3-613-02406-3 .