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WODAN gunboats (1877-1884)


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Hefring Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Wodan     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven   1877 1877 discarded 1924
Balder     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven 5.1878 1878 8.1879 minelayer 1910, captured by Germany 5.1940, BU
Braga     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven 1877 1878 6.1879 minesweeper 1913, river gunboat 1914, wrecked 15.5.1940
Freyr     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven 2.1877 9.7.1877 11.1877 scuttled 14.5.1940
Heimdall     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven   1879 1879 subsidiary service 1918
Njord     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven   1878 1878 stricken 1925
Thor     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven 9.1876 31.3.1877 11.1877 minelayer 1918, captured by Germany 14.5.1940
Tyr     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven 10.1877 1878 11.1878 captured by Germany 14.5.1940 (Tyr)
Vidar   102 Fijenoord, Schiedam 8.1878 15.2.1879 7.1879 minelayer 1915, captured by Germany 18.5.1940
Vali   103 Fijenoord, Schiedam   1879 1879 subsidiary service 1909
Hefring   107 Fijenoord, Schiedam 4.1879 16.9.1879 4.1880 TS 1907, scuttled 14.5.1940
Bulgia     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven 3.1879 4.12.1879 10.1884 minelayer 1925, sunk 12.5.1940
Dufa     Rijkswerf Amsterdam   1879 1879 discarded 1913
Hadda     Rijkswerf Amsterdam 1879 1879 5.1880 minelayer 1909, captured by Germany 14.5.1940
Udur     Rijkswerf Amsterdam   1879 1879 TS 1903, subsidiary service 1914
Ulfr     Rijkswerf Amsterdam   1879 1879 subsidiary service 1903


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

264 - 280

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

27.8

Breadth, m8.20
Draught, m2.30
No of shafts

1

Machinery1 VCE, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.

101 - 171

Max speed, kts

7 - 8.3

Fuel, t

coal 35

Endurance, nm(kts)960(6)
Armament

1 x 1 - 283/20 Krupp No.1, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Complement34


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<i>Hefring</i> 1940
Hefring 1940


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<i> Hefring</i> <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Hefring Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Gunboats of so-called "Rendell" type. From the middle of 1920th they were used mainly on the rivers on the German-Dutch border. One of the oldest combat ships in the world, still were in commission to the Second World War beginning.

Modernizations

1890s, Bulgia, Dufa, Hadda, Hefring, Udur: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + 1 x 1 - 283/27 Krupp No.2

1908, Wodan: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + 1 x 1 - 120/37 Krupp No.1

1909, Hadda; 1910, Balder; 1915, Vidar: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + mines

1913, Braga: + mechanical minesweeping gear

1914, Braga: - minesweeping gear

1918, Thor: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + 1 x 1 - 149/37 Krupp Nr.5, mines

1925, Bulgia: - 1 x 1 - 283/27; + mines

1920s, Braga: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + 1 x 1 - 120/37 Krupp No.1

1920s, Freyr: - 1 x 1 - 283/20; + 1 x 1 - 75/37 Krupp Nr.3

1920s, Tyr: - 1 x 1 - 283/20

1920s, Hefring: - 1 x 1 - 283/27; + 1 x 1 - 120/37 Krupp No.1.2.3

Naval service

Braga 15.5.1940 ran aground on river Waal and subsequently was broken up. Freyr was scuttled at Amsterdam 14.5.1940; raised by Germans, in September, 1944 scuttled as breakwater at Den Helder; raised again and broken up in 1947. Hefring was scuttled at Amsterdam 14.5.1940; raised by Germans 23.9.1940 and then, under one source, used as guard ship, but under another one was broen up. Tyr was captured by Germans 14.5.1940 on river Waal and commissioned by Kriegsmarine as auxiliary minelayer under own name; she was abandoned in 1945 and broken up after war. Bulgia 12.5.1940 was sunk by German aircraft; raised by Germans 31.7.1940 and BU.

Thor was captured by Germans at Den Helder 14.5.1940 and sunk by British aircraft at Vlissingen in February, 1941. Balder, Hadda and Vidar were captured by Germans and broken up.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.