Sable class
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Technical specifications | ||
Type: | Torpedo speedboat | |
Class: | 142 | |
Units: | 10 for the German Navy (others for export) |
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Displacement: | 206 tons | |
Length: | 42.62 meters | |
Width: | 7.1 meters | |
Draft: | 2.3 meters | |
Speed: | 42 kn (≈78 km / h) | |
Crew: | 39 total | |
Range: | (at 35 kn) 900 nm | |
Power: | 8,225 kW total | |
Drive: | 4 screws each over a 20-cylinder V-engine (MB-518C) | |
Sensors: | Fire control radar HSA M20 | |
Armament: (originally) |
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The Zobel class (officially: class 142 ) was the last German development in torpedo speedboat construction . After a conversion from 1970 to 1972 to wire-guided torpedoes, the boats were classified as class 142 mod. designated. The ten German units were built by the Lürssen shipyard in Bremen and the Kröger shipyard in Schacht-Audorf and were in service from 1961 to 1984. Other boats were built for foreign navies. In Turkey, it was manufactured under license as a Kartal class . These received a different armament with eight Penguin anti -ship missiles instead of the rear gun and the rear torpedo tubes.
During the Cold War , it was the task of the boats to block access to the Baltic Sea and to protect the coasts from landing forces. The Zobel-class boats formed the 7th Schnellbootgeschwader and were based in Kiel for most of the time .
construction
The sable class was a further development of the Jaguar class and agreed with this in the essential parameters. Like this, the hull was built in composite construction from three-layer wood planking on light metal frames. The superstructures were made of light metal. Only the bridge and gun posts were lightly armored.
Modified and expanded deck superstructures with a closed bridge structure made it possible to sail under NBC protection , for which a corresponding filter and ventilation system was installed. In addition, the larger bridge house offered space for extended electronics. The most noticeable distinguishing feature was the equipment with an improved radar system , externally visible through a spherical radome . In addition, a slightly different engine type was used with the Mercedes-Benz MB518 C.
Armament
The armament initially consisted of four torpedo tubes for unguided torpedoes with a diameter of 533 mm, for which three replacement torpedoes could be carried. Usually four British Mark VIII torpedoes were carried. These were unguided torpedoes powered by steam gas. Instead of the two rear torpedo tubes, rails for laying mines could be installed.
In addition, there were two 40-mm - anti-aircraft guns mounted in open stands on the bow and aft, which also has an artillery control station could be directed centrally behind the bridge.
From 1970, the four forward- facing torpedo tubes were exchanged for two rear- mounted tubes for wire-guided torpedoes. Now only two DM2A torpedoes were carried and no more mines could be laid.
Whereabouts
At the beginning of the 1980s, the sable class was replaced by the missile speedboats of the Gepard class .
Seven boats were handed over to the Turkish Navy after their general overhaul . There they were not put back into service, but gradually demolished as a spare part carrier for the boats built under license in Turkey from 1971 for personal use.
Boat list
NATO - ID |
German identifier |
Surname | Callsign | Shipyard | Commissioning | Decommissioning | Whereabouts |
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P6092 | S31 | sable | DBUQ | Lürssen | December 12, 1961 | September 7, 1982 | back to the Lürssen shipyard (?) |
P6093 | S32 | Weasel | DBUS | Lürssen | June 25, 1962 | March 6, 1984 | delivered to the Turkish Navy |
P6094 | S33 | Badger | DBUU | Lürssen | September 25, 1962 | December 6, 1984 | delivered to the Turkish Navy |
P6096 | S34 | mink | DBUX | Lürssen | January 11, 1963 | July 8, 1982 | Training hulk in Olpenitz (?) |
P6098 | S35 | cheetah | DBVA | Lürssen | April 18, 1963 | November 9, 1982 | delivered to the Turkish Navy |
P6100 | S36 | Ferrets | DBVC | Lürssen | June 26, 1963 | August 9, 1983 | delivered to the Turkish Navy |
P6101 | S37 | ocelot | DBXE | Lürssen | October 25, 1963 | January 10, 1984 | delivered to the Turkish Navy |
P6095 | S38 | ermine | DBUW | Kroger | November 28, 1962 | January 12, 1983 | Target ship (?) |
P6097 | S39 | puma | DBUY | Kroger | December 21, 1962 | 17th December 1981 | April 1984 in the Technical Naval School Brake as a training boat for fire and leak protection, today in Liberia under the number L3222585 |
P6099 | S40 | hyena | DBVB | Kroger | May 10, 1963 | 5th June 1984 | delivered to the Turkish Navy |
Individual evidence
- ^ Unofficial Homepage of the Turkish Navy. ( Memento from September 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) turkishnavy.net (Picture gallery)
- ↑ bundesarchiv.de ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c P 6092 Zobel (1980-84 / Type 142). In: DB2000 Encyclopedia. Harpoon HeadQuarters, archived from the original on September 21, 2008 ; accessed on February 4, 2015 .
- ↑ bmpt.org.uk