Dimensions
- Size (Max)
- 1028 t (1065 t since1940)
- Length (Total)
- 75,94 m (78,94 since 1940)
- Length (Waterline)
- 73,50 m (74,80 m since 1940)
- Beam
- 8,8 m
- Draft
- 3,24 m
- Crew
- 117
- 75.94 mOriginal
- 78.94 mAfter 1940 conversion
- 1,028 tOriginal
- 1,065 tAfter 1940 conversion
28 knMaximum speed
117Complement
Design and service
The story of F10
The Flottenbegleiter F10 was used in the 1st Geleitflotille after being commissioned. Used in the Baltic Sea after the outbreak of the war and sent to Helgoland on 6 September 1939 where it was operating as an escort vessel and used to lay mine fields. Again, the ships spend most of its time as a torpedo recovery vessel in the Baltic Sea between 1940 and 1944. In June 1944 it was used to escort the CA Prinz Eugen at operation at the Aaland Islands.
Taken over by the USA after the war. Broken down in 1950.
At a glance
Technical profile
Dimensions, armament, machinery and performance.
Armament
- 10,5 cm L/45
- 2
- 3,7 cm L/83
- 4
- 2 cm Flak
- 2
- Depth Charge Launcher
- 2 + 2
Machinery
- Shafts
- 2
- Turbines
- 2
- Type
- Geared Turbines
Performance
- Total Performance
- 16993 shp (14000 since 1940)
- Speed
- 28 kn
- Range
- 1965 sm at 13 kn
Construction record
F10
- Laid down
- Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, 1934
- Launched
- 11.05.1936
- Commissioned
- 12.08.1938
- Fate
- scrapped 1950