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Hamburg-class destroyer

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| Name = Type 101 Hamburg

| Builders = Stülcken-Werft

| Operators = {{navy|Germany}}

| Class before = {{sclass|Zerstörer 1|destroyer|1}}

| Class after = {{sclass|Lütjens|destroyer|1}}

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| Cost = DM134 million per shipKoop/Breyer: Die Schiffe, Fahrzeuge und Flugzeuge der deutschen Marine von 1956 bis heute., p. 50.

| Built range = 1959–1963

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| In commission range = 1964–1994

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| Total ships completed = 4

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| Total ships retired = 4

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| Ship class = Type 101A

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| Ship displacement = 4,050 tonnes

| Ship length = {{convert|133.7|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| Ship beam = {{convert|13.4|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| Ship draft = {{convert|4.8|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| Ship propulsion = 4 × Wahodag boilers, 2 steam turbines, 72,000 shp

| Ship speed = *{{convert|35|kn|km/h}}

  • {{convert|37|kn|km/h}} only D182

| Ship range = {{convert|3400|nmi|km}} at {{convert|18|kn|km/h}}

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| Ship complement = 284

| Ship sensors = *3 × HSA fire-control radars

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| Ship armament = *3 × DCN 100 mm/L55 guns

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The Type 101 Hamburg class was the only class of destroyers built during post-war Germany. They were specifically designed to operate in the Baltic Sea, where armament and speed is more important than seaworthiness.{{cn|date=September 2021}} They were named after Bundesländer.

Design

The German shipyard Stülcken was contracted to design and build the ships. Stülcken was rather inexperienced with naval shipbuilding, but got the order, since the shipyards traditionally building warships for the German navies like Blohm + Voss, Howaldtswerke or Lürssen were all occupied constructing commercial vessels (no naval ship had been built in Germany since World War II).

Originally, they had only barreled weapons, but from 1976 to 1978 they were upgraded with guided missiles to increase their effectiveness against modern surface warships and were re designated Type 101A. One 100 mm gun was replaced by two Exocet missile launchers, the Bofors were replaced by Breda 40 mm, and the torpedo tubes were removed. Modifications were also made to the operations center, radar and bridge.

The design of the Hamburg class has been criticized for many of the same failures of the Kriegsmarine destroyers: too top-heavy and bad sea-keeping capabilities. This is in part due to the low freeboard on the hull. They were replaced up from 1994 by the Brandenburg class frigates (F123).

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D181

|Hamburg

|Stülcken-Werft, Hamburg

|29 January 1959

|26 March 1960

|23 March 1964

|24 February 1994

D182

|Schleswig-Holstein

|Stülcken-Werft, Hamburg

|20 August 1959

|20 August 1960

|12 October 1964

|15 December 1994

D183

|Bayern

|Stülcken-Werft, Hamburg

|15 February 1961

|14 August 1962

|6 July 1965

|16 December 1993

D184

|Hessen

|Stülcken-Werft, Hamburg

|5 February 1961

|4 May 1963

|8 October 1968

|29 March 1990

All ships were built by Stülcken and were based in Wilhelmshaven as the 2. Zerstörergeschwader (second destroyer squadron) of the Bundesmarine/Deutsche Marine (German Navy).

See also

  • {{sclass|Brandenburg|frigate|1}}

Citations

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References

  • Gerhard Koop/Siegfried Breyer: Die Schiffe, Fahrzeuge und Flugzeuge der deutschen Marine 1956 bis heute. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, München 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6

External links

  • [http://www.marine.de/01DB070000000001/CurrentBaseLink/W26FQB89789INFODE Zerstörer Hamburg Klasse] - Die Marine (official Homepage of the German Navy) - in German
  • [http://hamburg-klasse.20m.com/ Hamburg Klasse] - in German
  • [http://www.zerstoerer-hamburg.de/ Zerstörer Hamburg] - in German
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20051118055305/http://www.z-hamburg.de/ Zerstörer Hamburg] - in German
  • [http://www.d-182.de/ Zerstöer Schleswig-Holstein] - in German
  • [http://www.zerstoerer-bayern.de/ Zerstörer Bayern] - in German
  • [http://www.zerstoerer-hessen.de/ Happy-Hessen] - in German
  • [http://www.d-184.de/ Zerstörer Hessen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008165246/http://www.d-184.de/ |date=2007-10-08 }} - in German
  • [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/type-101.htm Type 101 Hamburg] @ GlobalSecurity.org

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