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SPERBER catapult vessel (1938)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sperber SP11 726 Stülcken, Hamburg 1938 1938 26.11.1938 surrendered 5.1945, floating crane 1949


Technical data


Displacement standard, t1086
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

70.3

Breadth, m

14.6

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

2 Voith-Schneider propellers

Machinery

2 MWM diesels

Power, h. p.

640

Max speed, kts

8

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)700(8)
Armament

2 x 1 - 20/65 C/30, 1 18-t catapult, seaplane (Do 18)

Complement34


Standard scale images


<i>Sperber</i> 1940
Sperber 1940


Project history

Vessel for launching of heavy flying boats, arranged by 18t crane.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In 1949 Sperber was converted to floating crane and transferred to mercantile service. The further fate is unknown.