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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Karl Meyer (ex-Wedel)	K51	718	Norderwerft Köser & Meyer, Hamburg		1940	22.8.1940	sunk 27.10.1944
Max Stinsky	K52	732	Norderwerft Köser & Meyer, Hamburg		12.10.1940	7.8.1941	surrendered 5.1945, to USA 5.1946, to France 2.1948 (O. E. Paul Goffeney)
Immelmann	K53	744	Norderwerft Köser & Meyer, Hamburg		1941	18.12.1941	surrendered 5.1945, to United Kingdom 12.1945, to France 8.1946 (Commandant Robert Giraud)
Boelcke	K54	745	Norderwerft Köser & Meyer, Hamburg		1942	12.1942	sunk 17.4.1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1157
Displacement full, t	1351
Length, m	78.0
Breadth, m	10.8
Draught, m	3.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 MAN diesels
Power, h. p.	8800
Max speed, kts	21.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 120
Endurance, nm(kts)	4600(16)
Armament	Karl Meyer: 3 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 7.9/79, 3 seaplanes (He 60, Do 18, He 114, Ar 196) Max Stinsky: 3 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 7.9/79, 3 seaplanes (He 60, Do 18, He 114, Ar 196, Ar 95, BV 138) Immelmann: 3 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 7.9/79, 3 seaplanes (He 60, He 114, Ar 196, Ar 95, BV 138, Do 24) Boelcke: 3 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 1 - 7.9/79, 3 seaplanes (He 60, Ar 196, Ar 95, BV 138, Do 24)
Complement	66

Standard scale images

Project history

Development of Hans Rolshoven, equipped with 18t gantry.

Modernizations

1943 - 1944, all: - 1 x 1 - 37/80; + 1 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32.

Naval service

Karl Meyer was sunk 27.10.1944 by British aircraft of Implacable air group in Namsus area. Boelcke was sunk 17.4.1945 by Soviet bombers off Hel Peninsula. Max Stinsky and Immelmann were transferred on reparations to France as Paul Goffeney and Commandant Robert Giraud respectively.