List of ships of the Kriegsmarine
The list of ships of the Kriegsmarine contains ships that were in service with the former German Kriegsmarine . Ships that have been commissioned and, to a large extent, completed but not put into service are only listed in exceptional cases; they can be found in the list of planned ships of the Kriegsmarine .
Aircraft carrier
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Graf Zeppelin class
- Graf Zeppelin , construction started in 1936 (never operational)
Battleships
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Scharnhorst class
- Scharnhorst , 1936
- Gneisenau , 1936
Armored ships
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Germany class
- Germany (from 1940: Lützow ), 1931
- Admiral Scheer , 1933
- Admiral Graf Spee , 1934
Ships of the line
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Germany class
- Hanover , 1905
- Schleswig-Holstein , 1906
- Silesia , 1906
Heavy cruisers
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Admiral Hipper class
- Admiral Hipper , 1937
- Blucher , 1937
- Prinz Eugen , 1938
- Seydlitz , (not completed, unfinished conversion to an aircraft carrier)
- Lützow , (not completed, sold to the Soviet Union in 1940)
Light cruisers
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Gazelle class
- Niobe , 1899 (sold to Yugoslavia in 1925, taken into the Navy as German spoils in 1943)
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Emden- class
- Emden , 1925
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Königsberg class (K class)
- Koenigsberg , 1927
- Karlsruhe , 1927
- Cologne , 1928
- Leipzig class
Aviso
- Grille (used in the war as a mine-layer and lead ship)
- Hela (also fleet tender)
Artillery training ships
- Barbara (ex Belgian Zinnia )
- brake
- Grunt
- Dragon
- Mars
- Nordland (ex Danish Niels Juel )
- Heron (ex Belgian West Diep , ex German SMS A 20 , later E-Mess school boat Warendorp )
Torpedo training ship
destroyer
- Destroyer / Type 1934
- Destroyer / Type 1934 A
- Destroyer / Type 1936
- Destroyer / Type 1936 A
- Destroyer / Type 1936 A (Mob)
- Destroyer / Type 1936 B (Mob)
- Destroyers captured in the occupied territories
- ZH 1 (Netherlands)
- ZF 2 (France)
- ZG 3 Hermes (Greece)
Torpedo boats
- Pre-war boats (formerly Imperial Navy)
- S 139 / T 139 Pfeil , torpedo catch boat (TF boat)
- V 151 / T 151 Comet , TF-Boot
- V 153 / T 153 Eduard Jungmann , E-Mess school boat
- V 155 / T 155 , TF boat
- V 158 / T 158 , TF boat
- V 185 / T 185 Blitz , remote control boat
- V 190 / T 190 Claus von Bevern , test boat
- G 196 / T 196 , school boat, guide boat FdM
- G 7 / T 107 , school boat
- G 8 / T 108 , school boat
- G 10 / T 110 , school boat
- G 11 / T 111 , school boat
- S 23 / T 123 Komet , remote control boat, TF boat
- Captured torpedo boats and destroyers in the occupied territories
- Lion (ex Norwegian. Gyller , Sleipner class )
- Panther (ex norwegian Odin , Sleipner class)
- Leopard (ex Norwegian. Balder , Sleipner class)
- Tiger (ex Norwegian Tor , Sleipner class)
- NB (ex norway.)
- ND (ex norweg.)
- NH (ex Norway.)
- NK (ex norwegian.)
- NO (ex Norway.)
- TA 1 to TA 6 (ex French torpedo boats of the Le Fier class ) (TA means "foreign torpedo boats")
- TA 7 (ex ZN 4 , ex norwegian destroyer of the Aalesund class )
- TA 8 (ex ZN 5 , ex Norwegian destroyer of the Aalesund class)
- TA 9 (ex French Bombarde , ex Italian FR 41 )
- TA 10 (ex French La Pomone , ex Italian FR 42 )
- TA 11 (ex French L'Iphigénie , ex Italian FR 43 )
- TA 12 (ex French Baliste , ex Italian FR 45 )
- TA 13 (ex French La Bayonnaise , ex Italian FR 44 )
- TA 14 (ex Italian turbine )
- TA 15 (ex Italian Francesco Crispi , Sella class )
- TA 16 (ex Italian Castelfidardo )
- TA 17 and TA 18 (ex-Italian torpedo boats of the Palestro class )
- TA 19 (ex Italian Calatafimi )
- TA 20 (ex ital. Audace )
- TA 21 (ex Italian Insidioso )
- TA 22 and TA 35 (ex-Italian torpedo boats of the Pilo class )
- TA 23 , TA 25 and TA 26 (ex-Italian torpedo boats of the Ciclone class )
- TA 24 , TA 27 to TA 30 , TA 36 to TA 42 and TA 45 to TA 47 (ex-Italian torpedo boats of the Ariete class )
- TA 31 (ex ital. Dardo )
- TA 32 (ex Yugoslavian Dubrovnik , ex Italian Premuda )
- TA 33 and TA 34 (ex-Italian destroyers of the Soldati class )
- TA 34 (ex Yugoslavian T 7 )
- TA 43 (ex Yugoslav Beograd , ex Italian Sebenico)
- TA 44 (ex.Ital. Antonio Pigafetta )
- TA 48 (ex Yugoslavian T 3 )
Fleet companion
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Fleet companion
- F 1 , hunting from April 1942
- F 2
- F 3 , from April 1940 shark
- F 4
- F 5
- F 6 , from September 1939 Queen Luise , out of service in October 1943
- F 7
- F 8
- F 9
- F 10
Fast escort boats
- SG 1
- SG 2
- SG 3
- SG 4
Multipurpose boats
Gunboats
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Gunboat 1937 (ex Dutch)
- K 1
- K 2
- K 3
- K 4 ("Loreley") (ex Belgian Artevelde )
Auxiliary cruiser
- HSK 1 Orion
- HSK 2 Atlantis
- HSK 3 Aries
- HSK 4 Thor
- HSK 5 penguin
- HSK 6 Stier (previously mine ship Cairo / ship 23 )
- HSK 7 comet
- HSK 8 cormorant
- HSK 9 Michel
- HSK 10 Coronel
- HSK 11 Hansa
Speed boats
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Speedboat 1931
- S 2 to S 5
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Speedboat 1933
- S 7 to S 13
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Speedboat 1934
- S 14 to S 17
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Speedboat 1937
- S 18 to S 25
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Speedboat 1939
- S 30 to S 37 , commissioning (i. D.) 1939–1940
- S 54 to S 61 , i. D. 1940-1941
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Schnellboot 1939/40
- Type S 38
- S 26 to S 29 , i. D. 1940
- S 38 to S 53 , i. D. 1940-1941
- S 62 to S 99 , i. D. 1941-1943
- S 101 to S 123 , i. D. 1940-1943
- Type S 100
- S 100 , S 127 to S 150 , i. D. May 1943-1944
- S 167 to S 232 , i. D. 1943-1945
- S 301 to S 307 , i. D. 1945
- Type S 700
- S 701 to S 709 , i. D. July 1944-1945
- Type S 38
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Type S 151
- S 151 to S 158 , i. D. 1943/1944
- Light speed boats
- S 601 to S 604 (ex Yugoslav)
Submarines
- U 1 to U 250
- U 251 to U 500
- U 501 to U 750
- U 751 to U 1000
- U 1001 to U 1250
- U 1251 to U 1500
- U 1501 to U 4870
- Booty Submarines
- VS 80 (experimental submarine)
Mine layers
- Brummer (ex norwegian Olav Tryggvason )
Mine ships
Note: In order to distinguish between mine-layers that were specially built for this task, the Navy designated ships converted to auxiliary mine-layers as mine ships.
- adjutant
- Brandenburg
- Bulgaria
- Cobra
- Dietrich von Bern
- Doggerbank ( Ship 53 )
- Dragon
- Alsace
- Fasana
- Hanseatic city of Gdansk
- Juminda
- Emperor
- Cameroon
- Return
- lapwing
- Queen Luise
- Linz
- Lorraine
- Lower Saxony
- nymph
- Oldenburg (ex Dwarsläufer )
- Ostmark
- Passat
- Pomerania
- Prussia
- Roland
- Romania
- Ship 11 / ship 111
- Ship 23 (later HSK Stier )
- Schwerin
- Skagerrak
- Stralsund
- Tannenberg
- Togo ( ship 14 )
- Togo
- Ulm
- Vallelunga
- Versailles
- Westmark
- Wullenwever
- Xanten
- Zeus
Mine transporter
Anti-mine vehicles
- Mine sweeper 3 Bali (MRS 3)
- Mine clearance ship 4 Paris (MRS 4)
- Mine clearance ship 11 Osnabrück (MRS 11)
- Mine clearance ship 12 Nuremberg (MRS 12)
- Mine sweeper 25 Rio
- Mine clearance ship 26
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Minesweeper 1914
- M 1 to M 26
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Minesweeper 1915
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M 27 to M 56
- M 50 (1938 clearance boat companion Brommy )
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M 27 to M 56
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Minesweeper 1916
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M 57 to M 176 *
- M 60 (1938 Tender Hecht , 1940 M 560 , 1943 clearing boat support ship Hille )
- M 66 (1937 testboat, 1937 Störtebeker , 1940 M 566 , 1944 clearing boat companion)
- M 81 (1929 testboat Nautilus , 1940 minesweeper M 581 , 1941 torpedo catcher)
- M 82 (1925 tender, 1929 hunting , 1940 M 582 )
- M 107 (1939 clearing boat escort Von der Groeben , 1940 minesweeper M 507 )
- M 108 (1928 tender dolphin , 1940 M 508 , 1943 M 3600 )
- M 109 (1938 testboat Johann Wittenborg , 1938 Sundevall , 1940 minesweeper M 509 )
- M 111 (1940 M 511 )
- M 113 (1936 Acheron submarine tender, 1940 M 513 )
- M 115 (1935 testboat Arkona , 1941 minesweeper M 515 )
- M 126 (1919 minesweeper, 1940 M 526 , 1943 clearing boat support ship Alders )
- M 129 (1938 testboat Otto Braun , 1941 minesweeper M 529 )
- M 130 (1928 tender and artillery schoolboat Fuchs , 1940 minesweeper M 530 , 1943 M 3800 )
- M 133 (1922 tender, 1929 watch , 1933 M 133 , 1939 clearance boat companion Raule )
- M 134 (1921 tender, 1928 Frauenlob , 1939 M 134 , 1940 M 534 , 1942 clearing boat escort Jungingen )
- M 135 (1923 Tender Hela , 1939 Gazelle , 1939 minesweeper M 535 )
- M 138 (1921 tender, 1924 fishing protection ship Zieten , 1932 tender, 1936 clearing boat accompanying ship, 1939 Nettelbeck , 1940 M 538 )
- M 146 (1933 Tender Taku , 1934 minesweeper, 1935 M 146 , 1940 M 546 , 1941 Tender Von der Lippe )
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M 57 to M 176 *
- Minesweeper 1935
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Minesweeper 1940
- M 261 to M 501 *
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Minesweeper 1943
- M 601 to M 1050 *
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Auxiliary minesweepers
- Beowulf
- Freyr
- Frithjof
- Hagen
- Heimdall
- Hildebrand
- Hugin
- Munin
- Odin
- Sigfrid
- People
- Wotan
- M 1108 (ex West Prussia )
- M 1801 / M 4450 (ex Otto Flohr )
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Clearance boats
A total of 424 R-boats in four size classes- R 1 to R 16 boats of the 60 t class (1929–34)
- R 17 to R 24 boats of the 115 t class (1934–38)
- Later boats with 125 and 150 tons
- Captured clearing boats
- Oxhöft (ex Polish 180 t)
- Westerplatte (ex Polish 180 t)
- RA 1 (ex French)
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Barrier breaker
- Barrage Breaker 2 ( Athens )
- Barrier Breaker 4 ( Oakland )
- Barrier Breaker 10 ( Vigo )
- Barrier breaker 14 ( Bockenheim )
- Barrier Breaker 16 ( Tulane )
- Barrier breaker 19 ( Rostock )
- Barrage breaker 24 ( Waltraud Horn )
- Barrier Breaker 29 ( Algol )
- Barrier Breaker 36 ( Phoenix )
- Barrier breaker 131 , ex barrier breaker 31 ( swan )
- Barrier Breaker 139 ( Flamingo )
- Lock breaker 172
- Barrier breaker 185
*) Planned number sequences, buildings only partially started or completed. Gap M 502 – M 600: auxiliary minesweepers (some old minesweepers from the First World War with previously lower numbers).
Anti-aircraft ships
- Adler (ex Danish Peder Skram , 1945 floating anti-aircraft battery)
- Arcona (from 1942 floating flak battery)
- Ariadne (ex Dutch Hertog Hendrik , from 1943 floating flak battery)
- Medusa (from 1942 floating flak battery)
- Niobe (ex Dutch Gelderland )
- Nymph (ex norw. Tordenskjold )
- Pelican (ex. French Lotharingia , Alexis de Toqueville )
- Thetis (ex norw. Harald Haarfagre )
- Undine (ex Dutch Jacob van Heemskerck , from 1943 floating flak battery)
Artillery carriers
- 19 Heavy Artillery Carriers (SAT)
- 18 Light Artillery Carriers (LAT)
Hunter guide ships
Auxiliary warships
- Net layers (18 in total)
- Net lighter (3 in total)
- Net tenders (57 in total)
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Outpost boats
- V 101 Heron (outpost boat driver and barge)
- V 101 Schwan (outpost boat driver and barge)
- V 301
- V 414 (ex Sachsenwald , ex WBS 7 )
- V 427 / V 1337 / V 1419 (ex Belgian Victoire , ex German Senator Schröder )
- V 704
- V 808 Hindenburg
- V 1012 (ex Erika , today Pippilotta )
- V 1244
- V 1601 Skorpion / DWo 67 / Vs 111 (outpost boat guide ship and residential ship)
- V 1604 Natter / V 1710 / UJ 1121
- V 1921 Habicht (ex guard ship 1 )
- V 2019
- V 5519 tarantula
- V 5717 (ex Fritz Homann )
- V 5901
- V 5903 polar front
- V 6315 lion / V 6735 lion
- Outpost belay boats
- Vs 205 Gorch Fock
- Vs 216 Altair (ex coastal security ship DPK 14 ; outpostsecurity ship)
- Vs 516 Habicht (exwatch ship 1 , ex V 1921 ; lock watch ship, outpost security ship)
- Harbor protection boats
Submarine hunter
- UJ 116 Xanten
- UJ 117 Rila
- UJ 171
- UJ 172
- UJ 174
- UJ 175
- UJ 1121 (ex V 1604 , V 1710 )
- UJ 1203
- UJ 1709 (ex West Prussia )
- UJ 2101
- UJ 2102
- UJ 2103
- UJ 2104
- UJ 2105
- UJ 2106 (formerly "Tenedos" in Greek, built in 1906)
- UJ 2107
- UJ 2109 (ex 12 V 4 , ex brit. Widnes )
- UJ 2110
- UJ 2141
- UJ 2142
- UJ 2143
- UJ 2144
- UJ 2152
- UJ 2206
- UJ 2209
- UJ 2220 (ex Italian Lago Zuai )
Escort ships
- Adolf Lüderitz , speedboat escort
- Alders , evacuation boat escort
- Ammerland , submarine support ship
- Barbara , evacuation boat, anti-aircraft training ship
- Benghazi , auxiliary speedboat escort
- Brommy , evacuation vessel
- Buea , auxiliary speedboat escort
- Carl Peters , speedboat escort
- Danube , submarine escort ship
- Elbe , fishing protection ship, evacuation boat support ship
- Erwin Waßner , submarine escort ship
- Estonia , auxiliary speedboat escort
- Gustav Nachtigal , speedboat escort
- Hela , fleet tender
- Hermann von Wißmann , speedboat escort
- Hille , evacuation boat escort
- Isar , submarine support ship
- Hunting , fleet tender (until March 11, 1929 M 82 )
- Lech , submarine support ship
- Meteor , tender and escort ship
- Neisse , submarine support ship
- Nettelbeck , ex- Zieten , fishery protection ship, evacuation boat escort ship
- North Sea , speedboat and evacuation boat support ship
- Otto Wishes , submarine escort ship
- Polyp , escort ship for VS 80
- Raule , evacuation boat escort
- Rugard , living and escort ship
- Romania , auxiliary speedboat escort, later mine ship
- Saar , submarine escort ship
- Störtebeker clearing boat escort
- Tanga , speedboat escort
- Tsingtau , speedboat escort
- Von der Groeben , clearing boat escort
- Von der Lippe , clearing boat escort
- Waldemar Kophamel , submarine escort ship
- Vistula , submarine support ship
- Weser , fishing protection ship, evacuation boat support ship
- Wilhelm Bauer , submarine escort ship
Submarine tender
Workshop ships
- iron
- Frieda Horn
- Huascaran (workshop ship 1)
- Illkirch
- Cameroon (workshop ship 2)
- steel
- Southern sea
- Neumark (workshop ship 3, ex HSK 3 Widder )
Supply ships
- Altmark (from Feb. 1940 Uckermark )
- Dithmarschen
- Warmia
- Francs
- Havelland (not completed)
- Carinthia
- Samland
- Save (auxiliary supply ship)
- Westerwald (from Nov. 1939 Nordmark )
Supply ships
- Gaarden
- Kulmerland
- regensburg
Troop transport
Z ships
Base ships and base tankers
- CA Larsen
- Jan Wellem
- North star
- Ole Wegger
- Pelagos
- Sonderburg
- Southern sea
- tiger
- Unitas
- Walter Rau
- Vikings
Torpedo transporters and torpedo clear ships
Torpedo fishing boats
- Torpedo fishing boat class type A III
- M 553 (ex. Abraham van der Hulst )
- TFA 1 (ex Danish Hogen )
- TFA 2 (ex Danish Ornen )
- TFA 3 (ex Danish Dragen )
- TFA 4 (ex Danish Glenten )
- TFA 5 (ex Danish Hvalen )
- TFA 6 (ex Danish Laxen )
- TFA 7 (ex Polish Mewa )
- TFA 8 (ex Polish Rybitwa )
- TFA 9 (ex. Mr. Ms. G 16 )
- TFA 11 (ex Polish Czajka )
Weather observation vessels
- Adolf Vinnen (WBS 5)
- August Wriedt (WBS 8)
- Coburg (WBS 2; WBS 4)
- Externsteine (WBS 11)
- Fritz Homann (WBS 3; WBS 4)
- Hesse (WBS 11; WBS 8)
- Hinrich Freese (WBS 4)
- Lauenburg (WBS 3)
- Kehdingen (WBS 6)
- Munich (WBS 6)
- Saxony , later Hermann (WBS 1)
- Sachsenwald (WBS 7), later V 414
Icebreaker
Landing craft
Experimental ships and boats
- Acheron (ex M 113 , 1936 submarine tender Acheron , 1940 M 513 )
- Arkona (ex M 115 )
- Claus von Bevern (ex T 190 )
- Dorpat (ship, 1920)
- Freiherr vom Stein (August 1939 UJ 172 , May 1940 NEK test ship, August 1941 NVK test ship)
- M 60 (1938 tender / testboat Hecht , 1940 M 560 , 1943 clearing boat companion Hille )
- Johann Wittenborg (= Sundewall , ex M 109 )
- Nautilus (ex M 81 , 1940 M 581 )
- Otto Braun (ex M 129 )
- Pelican (ex M 28 )
- Störtebeker (ex M 66 ), testboat in1937, M 566 in 1940, later clearing boat accompanying ship
- Strahl , 1902/1936, communications test ship
- Welle , ex Grille , communications test ship
Target ships
Diving training ship
- nadir
- Octant
- Spica
- Paul Beneke
- Rigel
- sextant
Sail training ships
- Gorch Fock , 1933
- Horst Wessel , 1936
- Albert Leo Schlageter , 1937
- Herbert Norkus (not completed)
Hospital ships and transporters for the wounded
- Eagle
- Aquileia
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Antonio Delfino
- Berlin
- Birka
- Bonn
- Bordeaux
- Bremerhaven
- Brigitte
- Cavarna
- Ceres
- Christian
- Claus
- Danzig
- The German
- gain
- pheasant
- flora
- Frankfurt
- Freiburg
- General San Martin
- to water
- Glückauf 2
- Goettingen
- Gradisca
- Graz (ex Ares )
- Greifswald
- Hermia
- Höxter
- Illkirch
- Indalsälfen
- Innsbruck (ex Tavolara , ex Terranova , ex Limbara )
- comet
- Koenigsberg
- Constancy
- Latona
- Leipzig
- Lindau
- Lofoten
- Marburg
- meteor
- Michael Ferdinand
- Minos
- Munich
- Monte Olivia
- Monte Rosa
- Nordenham
- Nordstjernen
- Oberhausen
- Pitea
- Portia
- Poses
- Pretoria
- Prussia
- Ragnvald Jarl
- Regina
- Renate
- Reutlingen
- Robert Ley
- Rostock
- to reprimand
- Stavangerfjord
- Steuben
- Strasbourg
- Stubbenhuk
- Stuttgart
- Sulina
- tanga
- Tübingen
- Ubena
- Urundi
- Walter Rau
- Wangoni
- Wilhelm Gustloff
- Winrich von Kniprode
- Wurzburg
Danube Flotilla
- River clearing boats FR 1 to FR 12
- River mine layer FM 1
- River mine layer FM 2
- River patrol boat Birago
- Mine test ship / guard ship Alberich
- Guard ship Balmung
- Guard ship Bechelaren (ex President Masaryk )
- U-Jäger UJ 116 Xanten
See also
- List of ships of the Kriegsmarine with the designation "Schiff"
- List of ships and boats of the Luftwaffe from 1935–1945
- List of planned ships of the Kriegsmarine
Individual evidence
- ↑ Smaller captured destroyers were used as torpedo boats in the Kriegsmarine because a destroyer had 11 command officers and formed its own administrative unit, whereas a torpedo boat only had 4 command officers and its management was done by its flotilla. Due to a lack of personnel, prey destroyers were therefore used as torpedo boats.
- ^ Z. Freivogel: Kriegsmarine in der Adria 1941-45. In: Naval Arsenal. Volume 40, Podzun-Pallas Verlag, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1998, ISBN 3-7909-0640-9 , pp. 33-35.
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/netz.htm
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/netz.htm
- ↑ http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/netz.htm
- ↑ TFA = Torpedo fishing boat abroad