Hamburg class destroyer
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The Type 101 Hamburg class was the only class of destroyers built in post-war Germany. They originally had only barreled weapons. From 1976—1978 they were upgraded with guided missiles to increase their effectiveness against modern surface warships and were redesignated Type 101A. They were specifically designed to operate in the Baltic Sea, where armament and speed are more important than seaworthiness.
The German shipyard Stülcken was contracted to design and built the ships. Stülcken was rather unexperienced with naval shipbuilding, but got the order, since the shipyards traditionally building warships for the German navies like Blohm + Voss, Howaldtswerke or Lürssen were all occupied constructing commercial vessels (no naval ship had been built in Germany since World War II).
The design of the Hamburg class has been criticized for many of the same failures of the Kriegsmarine destroyers: too top-heavy and bad sea-going.
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[edit] Specifiations of Type 101A
- Displacement: 4362 tonnes
- Length: 134 metres (439 ft)
- Beam: 13.4 m (44 ft)
- Draft: 5.2 m (15 ft 7 in)
- Propulsion: 4 Wahodag boilers feeding 2 steam turbines
- Speed: 35 kts, (D182: 37 kts)
- Bunker: 809 m³ diesel
- Range: 3400 nm at 18 kt
- Sensors:
- 3 HSA fire-control radars
- sonar
- Countermeasures
- 2 20 barreled chaff
- Armament:
- 3 DCN 100 mm/L55 guns
- 4 twin 40 mm/L70 guns, Breda Mod 64
- 2 twin MM38 Exocet launcher
- 4 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 Bofors quadruple 375 mm anti-submarine rocket launchers
- 2 depth charge ramps, 10 depth charges
- up to 90 naval mines Mk 17
- Complement: 284 men
Notes:
- The 101 originally had 3 bow torpedo tubes and two in the stern and a fourth 100 mm turret. Also it had Bofors 40 mm guns instead of the Breda ones.
[edit] List of ships
| Pennant number |
Name | Call sign |
Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D181 | Hamburg | DRAA | January 29, 1959 | March 26, 1960 | March 23, 1964 | February 24, 1994 | scrapped in Spain |
| D182 | Schleswig-Holstein | DRAB | August 20, 1959 | August 20, 1960 | October 12, 1964 | December 15, 1994 | scrapped in Belgium |
| D183 | Bayern | DRAC | February 15, 1961 | August 14, 1962 | July 6, 1965 | December 16, 1993 | scrapped in Denmark |
| D184 | Hessen | DRAD | February 5, 1961 | May 4, 1963 | October 8, 1968 | March 29, 1990 | scrapped in Portugal |
All ships were built by Stülcken and were based in Wilhelmshaven as the 2. Zerstörergeschwader (second destroyer squadron) of the Bundesmarine/Deutsche Marine (German Navy).
[edit] Trivia
- They were nicknamed Hochhäuser (tower blocks) in the German Navy because of their unusual high sperstructures.
[edit] References
- Zerstörer Hamburg Klasse - Die Marine (official Homepage of the German Navy) - in German
- Hamburg Klasse - in German
- Zerstörer Hamburg - in German
- Zerstörer Hamburg - in German
- Zerstöer Schleswig-Holstein - in German
- Zerstörer Bayern - in German
- Happy-Hessen - in German
- Zerstörer Hessen - in German
- Type 101 Hamburg @ GlobalSecurity.org
[edit] See also
| Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine | |
|---|---|
| Destroyers | 101A Hamburg | 103B Lütjens |
| Frigates and Corvettes | 122 Bremen | 123 Brandenburg | 124 Sachsen | F125 | 130 Braunschweig |
| Fast Attack Craft | 143 Albatros | 143A Gepard | 148 Tiger |
| Mine warfare | 332 Frankenthal | 333 Kulmbach | 352 Ensdorf | 742A Mühlhausen |
| Submarines | 205B | 206A | 212A |
| Auxiliary ships | 404 Elbe | 423 Oste | 441 Gorch Fock | 520 Barbe | 702 Berlin | 703 Walchensee | 704 Rhön | 720 Helgoland | 721 Eisvogel | 722 Wangerooge | 760 Westerwald |
