Category:Hvidbjørnen (ship, 1929)

Hvidbjørnen 

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Source: Miramar Ship Index

• Built by: Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen
• Laid down: 2/1928
• Launched: 27/12/1928
• Comp: 5/1929
• Displacement standard: 914 t
• Displacement full: 1050 t
• Length: 63.2 m
• Breadth: 9.73 m
• Draught: 5.15 m
• No of shafts: 1
• Machinery: VTE, 1 boiler
• Power: 1800 hp
• Max speed: 14.5 kn
• Armament: 2 x 1 - 87/50 Bofors M28, 2 x 1 - 8/80, 1 seaplane (MF.11?)
• Complement: 58

• 1929 Named: HVIDBJØRNEN
• 29/8/1943 scuttled by crew in Great Belt , salvaged by Germans, repaired and entered service. Renamed: DORSCH
• After war she entered service with East German Navy as TC ERNST THÄLMANN
• 1961 renamed ALBIN KOBIS, 09/1961 out of service and used as barracks ship
• 1963 partly scrapped in Rostock-Warnemünde, hull used for target practice and sunk in 1965