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P5208 motor torpedo boats (2, 1944 / 1945)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
P5208 (ex-S208), 1947 - FPB5208 1948- P5208 12978 Lürssen, Vegesack, Germany   1944 9.1944 // 1945 to West Germany 3.1957 (UW11)
P5212 (ex-S212), 1947 - FPB5212 1948- P5212 12982 Lürssen, Vegesack, Germany   1944 10.1944 // 1945 BU 1956


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate P5208 (ex-S208), 1947 - FPB5208 1948- P5208 12978 Lürssen, Vegesack, Germany   1944 9.1944 // 1945 to West Germany 3.1957 (UW11) P5212 (ex-S212), 1947 - FPB5212 1948- P5212 12982 Lürssen, Vegesack, Germany   1944 10.1944 // 1945 BU 1956

Technical data


Displacement standard, t

105
Displacement full, t122
Length, m34.9
Breadth, m5.10
Draught, m1.52
No of shafts3
Machinery

P5208: 3 Napier-Deltic diesels

P5212: 1 Mercedes-Benz diesel + 2 Napier-Deltic diesels
Power, h. p.9000
Max speed, kts

39
Fuel, t

diesel oil 20
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors C/28, 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 - 533 TT
Complement15


Standard scale images


<i>S208</i> 1945
S208 1945


Project history

Ex-German boats received by reparations.

Modernizations

1945, P5208: was disarmed and used as surveillance craft.

Naval service

No significant events.

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