Dimensions
- Size (Max)
- 1028 t
- Length (Total)
- 75,94 m
- Length (Waterline)
- 73,50 m
- Beam
- 8,8 m
- Draft
- 3,24 m
- Crew
- 117
75,94 mOverall length
1028 tMaximum displacement
28 knMaximum speed
117Complement
Design and service
The story of F9
The Flottenbegleiter F9 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. Sunk by the British submarine Ursula near Helgoland on 14 December 1939 while escorting the CLs Nürnberg and Leipzig.
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
- Speed
- 28 kn
- Range
- 1965 sm at 13 kn
Construction record
F9
- Laid down
- Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, 1934
- Launched
- 11.05.1936
- Commissioned
- 21.08.1937
- Fate
- sunk 14.12.1939