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SG17

Schnelles Geleitboot  


SG16 (1944)

Laid down as French aviso drageurs de mines L'Impétueuse


Contruction Data

Laid down:     At. et Chant. de France Dünkirchen, 1938
Launched:     17.08.1939
Commissioned:     15.04.1940
Fate:     destroyed 07.08.1944
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     890 t (max)
Length:     78,30 m
Beam:     8,50 m
Draft:     3,20 m
Armament:     2 x 10 cm; 6 x 3,7cm; 14 x 2 cm;  1 Föhn Launcher; 2 DC
Performance:     4600 shp, 20 kn

History

This class of French Avisos were captured by German troops in November 1942.
L'Impétueuse was scuttled in Toulon and designated as Italian F.R.56 after that. Taken over by German troops in September 1943, the ship - now named SG17 - was badly damaged by during an air attack on 24.11.1943. It was scuttled in Marseilles on 07.08.1944 and scrapped in 1945.





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