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Brummer

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Albatros (ex-Olav Tryggvason), 5.1940- Brummer		119	Marinen Hovedverft, Horten, Norway	1931	21.12.1932	21.6.1934 // 11.4.1940	damaged 13.4.1945, never repaired

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1763
Displacement full, t	1860
Length, m	92.5 wl 97.3 oa
Breadth, m	11.5
Draught, m	3.60 normal load 4.03 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Laval geared steam turbines, 3 water-tube boilers / 2 Sulzer diesels
Power, h. p.	6000 / 1400
Max speed, kts	14 / 22
Fuel, t	oil + diesel oil 200
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(14)
Armament	4 x 1 - 120/41 Bofors, 1 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 4 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 280 mines
Complement	168

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Project history

Former Norwegian minelayer Olaf Tryggvason, 9.4.1940 captured by German troops at Horten, 11.4.1940 renamed Albatros and 16.5.1940 Brummer. Ship was rearmed before commission (originally carried 4 120mm, 1 76mm, and 2 40mm guns). According to some information, instead of 105mm had 127mm/45 guns.

Modernizations

Summer 1943: - 4 x 1 - 120/44; + 3 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38.

Naval service

Brummer was destroyed 3.5.1945 in dock during US air raid to Kiel.