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CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS
special service vessels (decoy ships) of WW II


Ships


Name

Launched // Comm.

Builder

Tonnage, BRT (disp., t)

Dimensions, m

(length pp)

Speed, kts

Engine, Power hp

Armament

Fate

Schiff 4 Wandrahm, 1940- V1801, 8.1940- V6114 Eismeer 8.10.1927 // 9.1939 Stettiner Oderwerke 1228 (2200) 73.0x11.6x4.4 9.5 1VTE, 2boilers, 750   surrendered 5.1945, to Soviet Union 3.1946
Schiff 12 Dr. Heinrich Wiegand 1.9.1938 // --- Nylands, Oslo, Norway 1421 (2600) 78.0x12.5x4.5   VC+exh. tu, 2 boilers, 1200 2 - 533 TT conversion cancelled 11.1939
Schiff 15 Neuss 22.10.1935 // 12.1939 Howaldtwerke, Hamburg 1243 (1640) 73.5x11.0x3.4 10.5 2 diesels, 900 2 - 533 TT auxiliary 4.1940
Schiff 17 Alster 5.1.1928 // --- Deschimag / Vulcan, Hamburg 8514 (16100) 163.3x19.4x8.6 14 VTE+ exh. tu, 5 boilers, 6500 2 - 533 TT conversion cancelled 11.1939
Schiff 27 Messina 27.7.1937 // --- Neptun, Rostock 2191 (4150) 92.4x13.3x5.6 13 1 DVC+exh. tu, 2 boilers, 1635 2 - 533 TT conversion cancelled 11.1939
Schiff 29 Lola 1920 // 10.1941 Caledon SB, Dundee, UK 1193 (2750) 82.3x11.0x5.1 14 1VTE, 3boilers, 1850 2 - 20 sunk 17.10.1944
Schiff 35 Oldenburg 29.6.1936 // 12.1939 Deutsche Werft, Hamburg 2312 (4400) 87.8x14.0x6.0 12.5 1 DVC, 2 boilers, 1600 2 x 1 - 533 TT sunk 14.4.1940
Schiff 40 Schürbeck 10.4.1930 // 12.1939 Flensburger Schiffbau 2448 (4800) 93.6x13.9x6.2 11 DVC, 2 boilers, 1225 2 x 1 - 533 TT blockade runner 12.1940
Schiff 43 Falkenberg 14.2.1912 // --- Bremer Vulcan, Vegesack 1661 (3200) 79.4x11.3x5.9   VTE, 2 boilers, 1500 2 - 533 TT conversion cancelled 9.1939
Schiff 43 Capri 28.2.1927 // --- Neptun, Rostock 1846 (3800) 91.3x12.5x5.6 11 VTE, 2 boilers, 1100 2 - 533 TT conversion cancelled 11.1939
Main 30.6.1927 // --- Bremer Vulcan, Vegesack 7624 (15300) 153.3x19.2x8.6 14 VTE+exh. tu, 4 boilers, 7250 2 - 533 TT conversion cancelled 11.1939


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


Schiff 4 Coburg (1938, 344, 12.1939 - 1940); Schiff 7 Möwe; Schiff 7 Wega (1932, 337, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 533 TT, 11.1939 - patrol MN02 7.1940); Schiff 9 Koblenz (1931, 438, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 533 TT, 11.1939 - 10.4.1940); Schiff 18 Alteland (1930, 419, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 533 TT, 12.1939 - patrol MN01 7.1940); Schiff 19 Rila, 9.1943 - UJ117 (1941, 194, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 1942 - 28.3.1944); Schiff 20 Nerissa (1936, 992, 2 - 533 TT, 12.1939 - 12.1940); Schiff 24 Mars (1920, 224, 8.1940 - 3.9.1940); Schiff 26 Julius Pickenpack (1931, 419, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 533 TT, 10.1939 - 26.4.1940); Schiff 37 Schleswig (1931, 433, 1 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 533 TT, 11.1939 - 26.4.1940); Schiff 47 Wilhelm Huth (1931, 438, 11.1939 - 10.10.1943); Schiff 49 Amerskerk


Standard scale images


<i>Schiff 20 Nerissa</i> 1939
Schiff 20 Nerissa 1939
<i>Schiff 29 Lola</i> more than 1000 BRT
Schiff 29 Lola more than 1000 BRT


Project history

Converted merchant vessels, armed with guns and torpedoes and used as decoys.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Oldenburg was sunk by British submarine Sunfish.