NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Mücke, 5.1942- Seehund	NB18, 5.1942- V5304	131	Marinens Hovedvaerft, Horten		20.9.1941	12.1941	explosion 27.10.1944, repair incomplete
Seebär	V5303, 1945- M2002	132	Marinens Hovedvaerft, Horten		22.10.1941	1.1942	minesweeper 1945, surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1946

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement full, t
Length, m	42.9
Breadth, m	8.00
Draught, m
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 4-cyl VCE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	1300
Max speed, kts	13.4
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 DCR
Complement	55

Project history

Whalers, laid down on order of Norwegian companies but purchased by Kriegsmarine during building and commissioned as patrols.

Modernizations

1942, both were armed with 1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/30, (1 - 2) x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 DCR.

Seebär, 1945: was re-armed with 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 6 DCR, mechanical minesweeping gear, presumably hydrophone.

Naval service

V5304 exploded 27.10.1944 off Hellisöy, towed to Lervik for repair and sunk there by rockets of British aircraft.