Lütje Hörn class

Lütje Hörn class

Langeness as a museum ship

Ship data country  Germany Greece   Ship type Harbor tugs Shipyard * Jadewerft , Wilhelmshaven Ship and boat yard Schweers , Bardenfleth Braun shipyard, Speyer Construction period 1957 to 1959 Launch of the type ship May 9, 1958 Units built 8th period of service 1958 to 1990

Ship dimensions and crew length 15.16 m ( Lüa ) 14.50 m ( KWL ) width 4.62 m Side height 2.05 m Draft Max. 2.36 m displacement 57.58  ts measurement 36.13 GRT   crew 3–4 (civil)

Machine system machine 2 x Deutz - diesel engines Machine performance 220 kW (300 PS) Top speed 10 kn (19 km / h) propeller 2 × Voith-Schneider drives

Furnishing Bollard pull 4 tbp

The Lütje Hörn class consisted of eight port tugs of class 723, which were in service for the German Navy from 1958 to 1990 . Four tugs were then used by the Greek Navy .

General

The "harbor tugs, small (300 hp)" of class 723 were commissioned as part of the first aid ship program in 1955 for the naval bases of the newly established German Navy. The tugs were built in parallel at the Jadewerft in Wilhelmshaven , the Schweers ship and boat yard in Bardenfleth and the Braun shipyard in Speyer . The tugs were named after Frisian islands and sandbanks . The hull was made of steel and divided into five compartments by four bulkheads . Two Voith Schneider Propellers of type 14 ET 65 gave the harbor tugs good maneuverability and a bollard pull of 4 tbp.

From 1986 the units were gradually decommissioned and replaced by the Nordstrand class . With the exception of Mellum and Trischen , the ship names of the Lütje-Hörn class were taken over from the new and larger harbor tugs. The units handed over to the Greek Navy were transferred to Greece in 1991 with the dock ship Condock III .

units

Ship number	Surname	Identifier	Shipyard / no.	period of service	Whereabouts
723/01	Lütje Hörn	Y 812	Jade Shipyard / 53	October 1, 1958 - December 18, 1990	1993–2009 in service as Pilefs (A 413)
723/02	Mellum	Y 813	Schweers / 6339	November 10, 1958 - December 20, 1990	as Minos (A 436) in service. Status unknown
723/03	Servant sand	Y 814	Brown / 652	December 22, 1958 - October 18, 1990	as Pelias (A 437) on duty. Status unknown
723/04	Scharhorn	Y 815	Jade Shipyard / 54	January 2, 1959 - August 2, 1990	1993–2009 as Aegifs (A 413) in service
723/05	Bird sand	Y 816	Schweers / 6340	January 26, 1959 - February 16, 1987	Sold through VEBEG to Kerkhove in the Netherlands
723/06	North beach	Y 817	Jadewerft / 55	February 25, 1959 - November 1, 1986	Sold through VEBEG to the Eberhardt shipyard in Arnis
723/07	Trish	Y 818	Brown / 654	April 7, 1959 - December 20, 1990	used as a spare parts store
723/08	Langeness	Y 819	Brown / 655	April 29, 1959 - January 15, 1987	German Naval Museum

See also

• List of ships of the Bundeswehr
• List of maritime weapons systems of the Greek Navy

literature

• Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop: The ships and vehicles of the German Federal Navy 1956 ~ 1976 . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7637-5155-6 , p. 350-352 .
• 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 , p. 384-386 .

Web links

Commons : Lütje-Hörn -class  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Information according to the list of ship numbers